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Snapshot,
March 22, 2012
With the recent deal to sell F-35 fighter jets to Japan, the United States has bulked up its main regional ally against China while still cutting its own defense budget by a planned $487 billion.
Letter From,
March 8, 2012
Prior to the 2011 earthquake, Kan had supported the expansion of Japan's system of nuclear power plants. The disaster at Fukushima Daiichi changed that. This is his case for a nuclear-free future.
Snapshot,
March 8, 2012
A first-person account from a senior director on the National Security Council during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and subsequent disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant in Japan.
Snapshot,
November 7, 2011
The United States is preparing for an Asian century, and its trade policy is following suit. Officials hope that the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement soon to include Japan, will help solidify their economic role in Asia.
Snapshot,
September 19, 2011
Japan's political class really has only one good option left if it hopes to rescue the country -- namely, to take a page from the Liberal Democrats' former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, whose mantra was "destroy the LDP."
Snapshot,
August 30, 2011
Yoshihiko Noda will need to stitch together a frayed party and a fractured public to lead Japan — and stay in power.
Essay,
Sept/Oct
2011
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.
Postscript,
April 17, 2011
As U.S. auto assembly lines grind to a halt for want of components that usually come from now-disabled factories in northeastern Japan, business strategists may be forced to rethink the way globalized companies do business.
Snapshot,
April 9, 2011
The longer-term impact of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami -- on Japanese domestic affairs, economics, and foreign policy -- is already a topic of major debate. Even as Japan struggles to recover, the disaster revealed deep reservoirs of strength in Japan’s economy and national character which have only grown in its wake.
Snapshot,
March 21, 2011
As Japan's ongoing nuclear crisis shows, older reactors are the most vulnerable to failure. Aging nuclear plants pose a risk in the United States as well, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must enforce up-to-date safety standards more forcefully -- or risk the possibility of a disaster.
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