Asia and Europe in Japan’s Alignment Policies: Drivers, Strategic Expectations and Future Outlook

This article examines Japan’s security alignments with key Asian and European partners, notably Australia, India, the UK, France EU itself. The articles explores Tokyo’s strategic expectations regard to each of five partnerships, as well probing likely future evolution these by providing a comparative perspective. Australia India conform supplement US-Japan alliance, addressing primary geostrategic concerns in Asia-Pacific Indian Ocean region. partnerships EU, are more recent not rooted any US-led alliance Asia. degree traditional kinetic military power players can bring Asia is very limited. However, pace which new quickly moving beyond non-traditional areas encompass defence military-security fields attests their potential evolving into mechanisms able perform broad range functions response complex threats. boundaries between two categories be further blurred, Japan various at different levels shape influence regional global environment.