• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.177-202
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• 2020

We propose the statistical modeling and empirical results that can be utilized to identify and interpret the structural factors of international arms exports in recent years. The building blocks of research comprise the following questions; which would be the explanatory variables for the changing trend of international arms exports, whether the statistical significance can be verified on those variables and how those are interpreted for the future policy making purpose. We use the dataset of top 40 countries from SIPRI's Arms Transfers Database and analyze several regression models which consist of explanatory variables derived from research hypotheses. The most noticeable result is that the national fiscal reserve is shown to have consistent influence on the arms exports changes. UN security council members' group also has dominant power to make a formation of arms exports market block. Furthermore, gross domestic product and net exports volume in the national economy would seem to be related to changes of international arms exports in post-2000 period as well.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.14 no.6_1
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• pp.23-32
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• 2014

Japan has abolished the 3 Principles on Arms Exports and announced the new 3 Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment and Technology. This article investigates the backgrounds of the abolition of the old regulation on banning arms exports. Japan government repealed 3 principles on arms exports to develop military industry and they insist that they pursue their national strategy called "Proactive Contribution to Peace." The future changes in defense industry due to the new principles are examined with the analysis of the defense industry indicators. The home production of the arms could be continued. However the international cooperation for the co-development and co-production of the weapon systems would be increased with not only the US but also the various countries. At the same time the efforts to export arms overseas are anticipated to be enhanced by the Japanese government and defense companies.