The Tools of Owatatsumi: Japan’s Ocean Surveillance and Coastal Defence Capabilities (by Desmond BALL and Richard TANTER, ANU Press, 2015) describes and assesses Japan’s maritime surveillance capabilities — underwater, shore-based and airborne — with particular respect to the underwater segment, about which there is little strategic analysis in publicly available literature.
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