October 2023
Intermediate to advanced
570 pages
24h 55m
English
Japan’s strategic culture is a product of its unique geography, climate, resources, history and experiences, demographics, myths, symbols, transnational norms, political structure, economic development, and relationships. Geopolitically, Japan is a stratovolcanic archipelago (a vast chain of 6,852 islands), and most of its 127 million people live on the six main islands with over 90% of the islands uninhabited, yet still conferring territorial integrity and strategic utility.1 The country spans a longitudinal distance of over 2,000 kilometers, stretching from the colder northern islands bordering Russia further south into the ...
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