No.135

March 20, 2006

●	China's Energy Strategy and Maritime Security Hideshi Ueno Former Senior Researcher, The National Institute for Defense Studies
●	International Container Transport Security Morinobu Sato ISO/TC8 Security Sub-Committee Chairman in Japan
●	Toward the Establishment of a Monitoring System for the Waters off Okinawa Naoyuki Takatsu Manager, Engineering Division Initial Department, Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation

China's Energy Strategy and Maritime Security

Hideshi Ueno
Former Senior Researcher, The National Institute for Defense Studies

With an increasing dependence on overseas oil resource, China is developing a strategy related to securing strategic posts along the sea lanes from the Middle East to China.
Securing China's strategic posts in the area around the Arabian and Andaman Seas puts a problem to the modalities for maritime security of the Indian Ocean.
Japan who also has an increasing dependence on Middle Eastern oil needs to be active and involved on this subject.

International Container Transport Security

Morinobu Sato
ISO/TC8 Security Sub-Committee Chairman in Japan

After 9/11, various anti-terrorism policies were discussed even in the field of maritime container transport.
These containers travel through a number of countries and carriers from the place of departure to the final destination.
The main reason for the challenges and difficulties in international container transport security is because there is no law or organization that would maintain control over them.
This article reports on the status of international security such as the trend toward the international standardization of the security management system for the supply chain.

Toward the Establishment of a Monitoring System for the Waters off Okinawa

Naoyuki Takatsu
Manager, Engineering Division Initial Department,
Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation

The exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the East China Sea is a sea area which has been causing friction between bordering countries, however, securing a science-based cooperation in the countries encircling this sea, establishing a ocean monitoring system based on this, and sharing ocean information in these countries will be an indispensable condition in the management of an EEZ under strain.