What is Japan’s military strategy?

On the military side, Japan took advantage of the U.S. strategic interest in containing
Soviet and Soviet-supported Communist expansion to lock the United States into a
major role in providing for Japan’s external security while ensuring that its own defense
efforts would be both minimal and limited in nature.  The original U.S. Japan Security Treaty (1951) codified the U.S. commitment to defend Japan against external aggression, in exchange for the U.S. use of Japanese military bases for Japan’s defense and the peace and security of the Far East. This is like Japan’s one-sided free trade agreement with the U.S : US committed itself to defend Japan but the latter assumed no obligation to contribute to the defense of the United States. Japan restricted its military efforts to a gradual and incremental buildup of its own indigenous defense capabilities. This build-up, moreover, had to be “in accord with the national capability of the domestic situation” and “within the limits necessary for self-defense”, a position formally codified as official Japanese policy in the 1957 Basic Policy for National Defense.

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