{"id":5964,"date":"2017-03-28T01:15:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T17:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/maritime-security-spotlight\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:07:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:07:52","slug":"maritime-security-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/maritime-security-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Maritime security in the spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 8 March, former Vice Admiral of the Japanese Maritime Self Defence Forces, Yoji Koda, gave a special briefing at Curtin St Georges Terrace, presented by Curtin University and the Consulate-General of Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Titled <em>Maritime Security Challenges in the Asia-Pacific<\/em>, the briefing focused on issues surrounding the South China Sea and North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The South China Sea has\u00a0become hotly contested in recent years due to its\u00a0geopolitical significance, and is subject to a\u00a0number of competing territorial claims. China&#8217;s recent military buildup in the area, through the creation\u00a0of several artificial islands, threatens important shipping lines and increases tensions between China and Japan&#8217;s ally, the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In the journal Asia Policy in January, Koda stated:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These man-made islands, when fully completed, would provide China with strong footholds in the Spratly Islands for controlling most of the sea lines of communication and for monitoring foreign naval and air activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/South_China_Sea_claims_map.jpg\" alt=\"Map of territorial claims in the South China Sea\" width=\"570\" height=\"620\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of territorial claims in the South China Sea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Koda is a fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University focusing on the direction of the US-Japan alliance in the coming decades and Chinese naval and military expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Before retiring in 2008, he\u00a0served in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force for more than 36 years. Throughout his military career, he held a wide range of posts including director-general of the operations and plans department, director-general of the Joint Staff Office and commander in chief of the Self Defence Fleet at Yokosuka.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39888\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39888\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-39888 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Koda2.jpg\" alt=\" Yoji Koda\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lecture attendees at Curtin St Georges Terrace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice Admiral of the Japanese Maritime Self Defence Forces, Yoji Koda, has given a special briefing at Curtin St Georges Terrace, presented by Curtin and the Consulate-General of Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-5964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"About the Strategic Flashlight series","content":"<p>Launched in 2009, Curtin&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/humanities.curtin.edu.au\/schools\/mcca\/dssis\/strategic-flashlight\/\">Strategic Flashlight<\/a> research seminar and policy workshop series is Perth\u2019s premium strategy forum. 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