| Summary/Abstract |
This research discusses why Japan’s “Basic Defense Force Concept” adopted earlier was maintained
amidst the widely-discussed demise of détente and the arrival of the “Second Cold War” between the
United States and the Soviet Union entering the 1980s. From the perspective that perceives the Basic
Defense Force Concept as a “beyond-the-threat theory,” the defense controversies that unfolded
during the Second Cold War were waged between the Basic Defense Force Concept and criticisms
of the Basic Defense Force Concept resembling the “counter-threat theory” based on the increasing
threat recognition. As a result, the Basic Defense Force Concept was not abandoned, which probably
might finish with the victory of the Basic Defense Force Concept against the “counter-threat
theory.” However, that was actually not the case. The Basic Defense Force Concept began to coexist
with the “Idea of Defense Force Reinforcement,” a competing theory to the Basic Defense Force
Concept that took prominence during the Second Cold War, due to the “Idea of Attached Table Early
Achievement” and the “Idea of Attached Table Revision and Concept Change,” considered to be a
competing theory to the Basic Defense Force Concept as well, due to the “Idea of Attached Table
Revision and Concept Continuation.”
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