Arming Japan is a very helpful addition to the literature, taking us beyond the narrower issue of Japan's defence policy and grappling with the more complex questions of how a nation's defence and security interact with its domestic industries....This is a compact book, concisely argued, very well researched and documented, drawing on a wealth of Japanese materials. It poses starkly a fundamental dilemma that Japan has had to confront throughout the postwar period-how 'independent' can it be in its defence and security policies? For these reasons, this book could make an excellent classroom text or discussion piece, and it is strongly recommended. It is, as one expects from Columbia, very well produced.

Michael J. Green is Olin Fellow for Asian Security at the Council on Foreign Relations.

The Allure of Autonomy: Defense Production and Alliance, Defense Production and the Economy
2. "On Sea, on Land, and Then On to Space!": The Growth of the Defense Industry's Political and Technological Base, 1950–1969
3. "Self Defense to the Fore, Alliance to the Rear!": The Nixon Doctrine, the Fourth Defense Plan, and the Political Zenuth of Kokusanka, 1970–1976
4. The Emerging Paradox: Bilateral Defense Cooperation and the Growth of Technonationalism, 1976–1986
5. "Return of the Zero Fighter!": The FSX Crisis
6. The Limits of Autonomy; The Shifting Defense Constituency in the FSX Debate
7. Defense Production and Alliance in a Post-Cold War World
8. Conclusion
Epilogue