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Richard J. Samuels

Essay
Sept/Oct
2011
Tokyo's TransformationPremium Article available to subscribers and site license holders.
Eric Heginbotham, Ely Ratner, and Richard J. Samuels

Japan is undergoing profound changes that are empowering its political leadership at the expense of its bureaucracy. But rather than bringing about a clean transfer of institutional authority, the reforms have created gridlock. The U.S.-Japanese alliance isn’t dead, but it is getting more complicated.

Capsule Review
Jan/Feb
2008
Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia; Japan in International Politics: The Foreign Policies of an Adaptive State
Lucian W. Pye
Postscript
Japan's Dual Hedge
Eric Heginbotham and Richard J. Samuels
Essay
Sep/Oct
2002
Japan's Dual HedgePremium Article available to subscribers and site license holders.
Eric Heginbotham and Richard J. Samuels

After September 11, Tokyo was quick to declare its support for the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Much of the promised military assistance quickly evaporated, however, because Japan covets its business ties around the world, even those wth U.S. enemies, and is loath to jeopardize these lucrative links. Tokyo defines security in economic, not just military, terms--even when this means parting company with Washington.

Review Essay
Sep/Oct
1994
The Past In Japan's Future: Will The Japanese Change?
Michael M. Mochizuki

Even as Japan struggles to redefine itself, the nation's future may look a lot like its past. Excellent new books by James Fallows, Richard J. Samuels, and John W. Dower find that Japan's passive foreign policy, "technonationalism," and economic chauvinism are likely to endure.