Yet the goals of national security and crisis management are the same in both systems – indeed, one of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s first acts when he came to power was to establish an NSC to improve coordination of policymaking. Although the establishment of the Japanese NSC is long overdue, it is not too late for Japan to benefit from the improvement in policy direction and coherence that it seems certain to bring.
与美国政府的总统制相反，日本政府是议会制。但这两套制度的国家安全和危机管理目标是一致的——事实上，英国首相卡梅伦在当选后的第一批动作之一便是成立NSC以改进决策协调。尽管日本NSC长期缺位，但对日本来说，现在成立NSC、获得它几乎必将带来的政策方向和一致性改进为时未晚。