Research Catalog

Title

Tools of Owatatsumi : Japan's ocean surveillance and coastal defence capbilities / Desmond Ball and Richard Tanter.

Author

Ball, Desmond

Publication

Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, [2015]

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Details

Description

xxvii, 134 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Japan is quintessentially by geography a maritime country. Maritime surveillance capabilities: underwater, shore-based and airborne are critical to its national defence posture. This book describes and assesses these capabilities, with particular respect to the underwater segment, about which there is little strategic analysis in publicly available literature. Since the end of the Cold War, Chinese oceanographic and navy vessels have intruded into Japanese waters with increasing frequency, not counting their activities in disputed waters such as around the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands and Okinotorishima where China and Japan have overlapping territorial claims. These intrusions have increasingly involved warships, including submarines, sometimes acting quite aggressively. Japan maintains an extraordinary network of undersea hydrophone arrays, connected to shore-stations which are typically equipped with electronic intelligence (ELINT) systems, for monitoring, identifying and tracking submarine and surface traffic in its internal straits and surrounding seas. Some parts of this network are operated jointly with, and are of crucial importance to, the US Navy.

Subject

• Japan. Kaijō Jieitai
• Coastal surveillance > Japan
• Underwater surveillance > Japan
• Coast defenses > Japan
• Coast defenses
• Coastal surveillance
• Underwater surveillance
• Japan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-134).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781925022261
• 1925022269
• 9781925022278 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014471774

OCLC

• 927103900
• SCSB-10702076

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library