ABSTRACT
Japan is in search of a new foreign policy orientation towards the rise of China. In calibrating Japan's foreign and security policy reorientation in view of the rise in Chinese power. The rise of Chinese power has also accelerated the process of reconfiguring Japan's defense policy, the US-Japan alliance and Japan's security partnerships in the Asia-Pacific. Japan's National Defense Policy Guideline (NDPG) adopted on December 17, 2010, adopted a new concept called "Dynamic Defense". This concept replaced the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) long standing "Basic-Defense Force Concept" that was formularized in the 1970s. The victory by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) brought an end of more than half a century of almost uninterrupted rule by the LDP. Despite the high rate of support by the public, the DPJ was unable to capitalize on the political sustainability. The rise of Chinese power presents a major impact on Japan's foreign and security policy reorientations.
