1. The most representative work for this approach is: Friedman, George, and Meredith Lebard, The Coming War with Japan (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1991).
2. For a very critical appraisal of this Soviet myopia see: Aliev, R. Sh., ‘Polemic notes of a Japanese affairs specialist’, Far Eastern Affairs, no. 3 (1989), 122–33.
3. Betts, Richard K., ‘Wealth, power, and instability. East Asia and the United States after the cold war’, International Security, vol. 18, no. 3 (Winter 1993— 94), p. 43.
4. Akaha, Tsuneo, ‘Japan’s security agenda in the post-cold war era’, The Pacific Review, vol. 8, no. 1 (1995), p. 50.
5. See Tanaka, Akihiko, ‘Two faces of East Asian security and Japan’s policy’ in: Proceedings of ‘ Korean Peninsula Trends and US—Japan—South Korea Relations’ (Washington, DC: The Center for Strategic and International Studies, April 1994), pp. 92–3.