1. Introduction
2. Decentering and Recentering in Security Strategy Part I. Non-American Directions in Defense Policy
3. Centered on the fight within: the inward-looking nature of the Japanese debate on constitutional reinterpretation with a diluted US focus
4. Lifting the ban on Defense Industrial Production Cooperation with Non-US Partners Part II. Diversifying Security Partners
5. Japan’s ‘special’ strategic partnership with Australia: ‘Decentering’ underwrites ‘re-centering'
6. Japan’s policy toward India since 2000 and US leadership in East Asia
7. Japan’s security cooperation with the Philippines and Vietnam Part III. Japan’s Focus on Multilateral Security Cooperation
8. From a Decentering and Recentering Imperative: Japan’s Approach to Asian Security Multilateralism
9. Is Japan’s Engagement in Counter-Piracy Missions a Step Towards Decentering of Its Security Policy?
10. Japan’s Cooperation with the EU in the Nexus of Development and Security
11. Evolution of Japan’s Non-US Centric Security Strategy and European Influences on Japan’s Peace-Building Policy Part IV. Reflections on Japan’s Non-American Focused Initiatives
12. The Continued Centrality of the United States to Japan’s Security Doctrine in an Era of Expanding Security Partnerships
13. Non-US Directions in Japan’s Security Strategy: A Chinese View
14. Conclusions