[Book Reviews]Can Japan Break Free of the Base-State? Review of The Birth of the Base State: Japan’s Korean War - by NAM Gi-jeong Korea: Seoul National University Press, 2016

Tae Gyun PARK(Seoul National University)

Ⅰ. Is Japan Truly a “Pacifist” State?

Ⅱ. A Base-State Shaped by Shared Internal and External Interests

Ⅲ. The Origin of the Drive to Become a Normal State

Ⅳ. Whither Japan?