This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Japan's new security partnerships with Australia, India, countries and multilateral security fora in East Asia, as well as with the EU and some of its member states.

Wilhelm M. Vosse is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the International Christian University, Tokyo
Paul Midford is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim

Introduction - Wilhelm Vosse and Paul Midford
Part I: Japan-Australia security partnership
1 The Australian perspective on the security partnership with Japan - Thomas S. Wilkins
2 The Japanese perspective on the security partnership with Australia - Yusuke Ishihara
Part II: Japan-India security partnership
3 The Indian perspective on the security partnership with Japan - Madhuchanda Ghosh
4 The Japanese perspective on the security partnership with India - Satoru Nagao
Part III: Japan-South East Asia security partnership
5 Japan's multilateral security cooperation with East Asia - Paul Midford
6 The East Asia perspective on the security partnership with Japan - Stephen R. Nagy
7 The Philippine perspective on the security partnership with Japan - Renato Cruz De Castro
8 The Vietnamese perspective on the security partnership with Japan - Swee Lean Collin Koh
9 The Japanese perspective on the security partnership with Vietnam - Bjørn Elias Mikalsen Grønning
Part IV: Japan-Europe security partnership
10 The Japanese perspective on the security partnership with the European Union - Akiko Fukushima
11 The European perspective of the security partnership with Japan - Axel Berkofsky
12 EU-Japan security partnership in practice: the counter-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia - Wilhelm Vosse
Conclusion - Wilhelm Vosse and Paul Midford
Appendix: List of important multi- and bilateral security-related agreements
Index