What is DRC ? 

PURPOSE

The Defense Research Center (DRC) is a non-profit, tax-exempt, Government-authorized, privately funded foundation, established in 1991, for the purpose of researching Japanese national security issues in the context of the global security environment. DRC places special emphasis on the role of technology in evolving security relationship. As a security policy and strategy institute, DRC is unique in that its research staff combines military and industrial experience and perspectives to provide candid assessments, free of Government policy constraints. 

RESEARCH MEMBERS & ACTIVITIES

DRCs studies are supported by the voluntary contributions of its research staff, which consists of about 30 retired senior Japanese Ground, Maritime, and Air Self-Defense Force officers and civilians, together with others from academia and industry. Researchers are invited to join DRC based on their technology and security policy experience.

DRC's principal activities are national security analyses and studies, conducted through world-wide overseas research trips, on-site discussions, and conference participation.

DRC focuses on the relationship between strategy and technology, with particular emphasis on the lnformation Age and its implications for future security structures and defense capabilities in both regional and global contexts. 

GLOBAL DIALOGUE

DRC gives priority to advancing security cooperation under the Japan-US Security Treaty and other international arrangements on a global scale. Normally, 5-members DRC research team visits 7 to 10 facilities in a week. DRC research teams have completed 63 trips to 20 countries and 140 institutions in North America, Europe, Oceania, and Asia Pacific including Central Asia in the last ten years. A primary characteristic of these teams has been the frank exchange of perspectives.

In Tokyo, DRC has welcomed and exchanged views with numerous visitors from all over the world. 

FUTURE PROSPECTS

At the dawn of the 21st Century, international security dialogue is no less important than during the Cold War. Indeed, DRC believes it is even more essential for enhancing security stability in regional and global contexts. To this end DRC will expand the scope and number of its research teams to share candidly Japanese views on security issues with more nations, and to learn other national perspectives that should be considered in the course of evolving Japan's security policy and its implementation.

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