National Police Reserve

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

List of Figures and Maps

Glossary

A Note on the Text

Introduction

1 The npr in the Literature and Archives

Secondary Literature

Archival Sources

Terminology

Conclusion

2 The JCP and the Domestic Context of the Creation of the NPR: 1945–1950

The JCP 1945–1950: ‘Peaceful Revolution’ to ‘Military Policy’

Japanese Conceptions of Internal Security and the Desire for a Constabulary

Conclusion

3 The International Context of the Creation of the NPR: 1945–1950

The International Political Context

Competing American Visions of Japanese Security

US Constabularies before the NPR

The Korean War and the Birth of the NPR

Conclusion

4 The Organisational Character of the NPR

Recruitment

Training and Examinations

Deployment and Logistics

The Capabilities of the NPR

The Internal Security Role Envisaged for the NPR

The NPR’s Links with the Civil Police

The NPR and Former Imperial Officers (I)

Conclusion

5 The Operational Aspects of the NPR

The Living Conditions of Members of the NPR

The Legal Position of the NPR

The JCP 1950–1952: The ‘Military Policy’ in Action, Attempts at Violent Revolution in Japan

The JCP and the NPR

Disaster Relief

Conclusion

6 The Evolution of the NPR

The Chinese Intervention and the Fall of MacArthur

The Push for Heavy Armament and Expansion

The NPR and Former Imperial Officers (II)

The NSF, SDF and Japanese Resistance

Continuities in the NSF and SDF

Conclusion

Conclusion

Appendices

I The ‘Constabulary Letter’, 2 October 1945

II Yoshida to MacArthur, Letter on Police Reform/Recentralisation, 6 August 1949

III Macarthur to Yoshida, Letter Authorising the Creation of the NPR, 8 July 1950

IV Stalin’s New Year’s Message to the Japanese People, 31 December 1951

V Japanese Policy Document: ‘Initial Steps for Re-armament Program’, 3 February 1951

Bibliography

Index