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Title:	自衛隊武漢肺炎抗疫行動及其特徵 JSDF Support Operations and its Characteristics on Fighting COVID-19
Authors:	楊雯婷 Yang, Florence Wen-Ting
Contributors:	日本研究學位學程
Date:	2020-04
Issue Date:	2021-07-14 09:43:24 (UTC+8)
Abstract:	Japan’s Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) is playing a critical and competent role in the fight against COVID-19. As infections have yet to abate in Japan, the JSDF, with greater budgetary resources, is expected to step up its supporting role. This paper introduces the JSDF’s support operations and their characteristics in the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. Compared to other governmental sectors, the JSDF has higher awareness and is well-prepared to respond to infectious diseases, honed from years of effort to improve its capabilities in this area. Twice, Japan’s MOD deployed JSDF troops to help tackle the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic without waiting for a request from a prefectural governor (the so-called self-ordering dispatch, jishu haken). The Article 83 of Self-Defense Forces Law, serves as the legal ground for JSDF’s disaster relief including a crisis of infectious diseases like COVID-19. Article 83 allows JSDF to dispatch its troops to disaster relief operation as response to calls for assistance from prefectural governors or by its own judgment under certain emergency circumstances. Given Japan’s historical aversion to proactiveness in its armed forces in the post-war period, the jishu haken is worth reviewing and potentially shows that prefectural governors hesitated to request assistance from JSDF because at the start of the epidemic, it was unclear how contagious and devastating the coronavirus would become. Moreover, lacking experience with Class I infectious diseases, prefectural governors likely had no consensus about what assistance JSDF should or could provide. As fatalities and cases mounted, the JSDF’s role has included support operations involving the “Diamond Princess” cruise ship, providing medical and life support to those who are quarantined, strengthening border measures against the spread of COVID-19, operating JSDF hospitals that admit patients confirmed with the coronavirus, and other operations requested by prefectural governors.
Relation:	國防情勢特刊, No.1, pp.79-86
Data Type:	article
Appears in Collections:	[Master`s Program in Japan Studies] Periodical Articles

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