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Japan’s National Security Reckoning

Masataka Okano
Essay

Japan Can’t Go It Alone

Dan Blumenthal, Mike Kuiken, Randy Schriver
Essay

Are Japan and South Korea Poised for a Historic Breakthrough?

Ayumi Teraoka
Essay

America’s Allies Should Go Nuclear

Moritz S. Graefrath, Mark A. Raymond
Essay

Japan’s Stalled Immigration Experiment

Gracia Liu-Farrer, Takeshi Miyai , Yu Korekawa
Essay

Japan Can Keep the Indo-Pacific Open and Free

Shihoko Goto
Essay

Asia’s Trump Problem

Michael J. Green
Essay

How America Outcompeted Japan

Carl Benedikt Frey
Essay

Tokyo’s Leadership Vacuum

Mireya Solís
Essay

Should Asia Make It Official?

Ken Jimbo, Ely Ratner

How Japan—and Other U.S. Allies—Can Work Around America

Tatsuya Terazawa
Essay

How Nostalgia Ruins Economies

Harold James, Marie-Louise James
Snapshot

The Case for a Pacific Defense Pact

Ely Ratner
Essay

The Resurgence of Europe

Arancha González Laya
Snapshot

Order Without America

Ngaire Woods
Essay

The Japanese Military Has a People Problem

Tom Le
Snapshot

Does America Face a “Ship Gap” With China?

Stephen Biddle, Eric Labs
Snapshot

Base Towns: Local Contestation of the U.S. Military in Korea and Japan

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

East Asia’s Coming Population Collapse

Nicholas Eberstadt
Snapshot

The Secret to Japanese and South Korean Innovation

Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Robyn Klingler-Vidra
Snapshot

Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

Japan’s China Reckoning

Tomohiko Taniguchi
Snapshot

America’s Best Friend in Asia

Jeffrey W. Hornung
Snapshot

What Holds Japan Back

Richard Katz
Snapshot

America Can’t Surpass China’s Power in Asia

Kelly A. Grieco, Jennifer Kavanagh
Snapshot

Taiwan’s Status Quo Election

David Sacks
Snapshot

Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

Contemporary Japanese Politics and Anxiety Over Governance

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

Japan’s Nuremberg

Jennifer Lind
Review Essay

America’s Window of Opportunity in Asia

Andrew Yeo, Mireya Solís, Hanna Foreman
Snapshot

The Great Convergence

Branko Milanovic
Essay

The New Meaning of Hiroshima

Fumio Kishida
Snapshot

South Korea’s Coming Era of Stagnation

Jaejoon Woo
Snapshot

America Needs to Reassure Japan and South Korea

Katrin Fraser Katz, Christopher Johnstone, Victor Cha
Snapshot

To Make Japan Stronger, America Must Pull It Closer

Christopher Johnstone
Snapshot

Japan Steps Up

Jennifer Lind
Snapshot

Japan and South Korea Are Still Haunted by the Past

Eun A Jo
Snapshot

Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzo

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

Why Japan Belongs in AUKUS

Michael Auslin
Snapshot

Japan and South Korea Can No Longer Let History Thwart Cooperation

Victor Cha, Christopher Johnstone
Snapshot

Why Shinzo Abe Thought Japan Had to Change

Jennifer Lind
Snapshot

The Real End of Pax Americana

Mark Leonard
Snapshot

How to Mend the Rift Between Japan and South Korea

Kristi Govella, Bonnie S. Glaser
Snapshot

How the Ukraine War Is Changing Japan

Takako Hikotani
Snapshot

A Practical Vision for South Korea

Lee Jae-Myung
Snapshot

Japan’s Hard Choices

Sheila A. Smith
Snapshot

The Political Economy of the Abe Government and Abenomics Reforms

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

Why Nobody Invests in Japan

Richard Katz
Snapshot

Why the Quad Alarms China

Kevin Rudd
Snapshot

Japan Is Indispensable Again

Akira Igata, Brad Glosserman
Snapshot

The Surprising Strength of Chinese-Japanese Ties

Tobias Harris
Snapshot

Washington Is Avoiding the Tough Questions on Taiwan and China

Charles L. Glaser
Snapshot

Japan’s Looming Climate Showdown

Richard Katz
Snapshot

Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory

Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review

How the Quad Can Match the Hype

Dhruva Jaishankar, Tanvi Madan
Snapshot

Japan Is the New Leader of Asia’s Liberal Order

Chang Che
Snapshot

Can America Restore Its Credibility in Asia?

Michael J. Green, Evan S. Medeiros
Snapshot

Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II

Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review

Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women

Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review

Three Books on Asian Political Leaders

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

The Underappreciated Power

Mireya Solís
Essay

Shinzo Abe Will Be a Tough Act to Follow

Tobias Harris
Snapshot

America’s Exceptional Housing Crisis

Sam Winter-Levy, Bryan Schonfeld
Snapshot

The Age of Hiroshima

Jessica T. Mathews
Capsule Review

To Protect and to Serve

Laurence Ralph
Essay

Post-Pandemic Japan Will Attract the World

Gracia Liu-Farrer
Snapshot

Reluctant Warriors: Germany, Japan, and Their U.S. Alliance Dilemma

G. John Ikenberry
Capsule Review

The Climate Club

William Nordhaus
Comment

China and Japan: Facing History

Sheila A. Smith
Capsule Review

Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

How an Alliance System Withers

Bonnie S. Glaser, Oriana Skylar Mastro
Snapshot

Japan’s Upper House is No Place for a Woman

Chelsea Szendi Schieder
Snapshot

Japan and South Korea Can’t Get Along

Celeste L. Arrington, Andrew Yeo
Snapshot

Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

Rampage

Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review

Peak Japan: The End of Great Ambitions

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

Japan's Population Implosion: The 50 Million Shock

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

Is Japan Becoming a Country of Immigration?

Yunchen Tian, Erin Aeran Chung
Snapshot

A New Military Strategy for Japan

Eric Heginbotham, Richard J. Samuels
Snapshot

What a U.S.–North Korean Summit Means for Japan

Sheila A. Smith
Snapshot

Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice After the Second World War

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

Can China Internationalize the RMB?

Saori N. Katada
Snapshot

How Abe and Modi Can Save the Indo-Pacific

Jonathan Berkshire Miller
Snapshot

Abe’s Victory and Constitutional Revision

Jeffrey W. Hornung, Kenneth M. McElwain
Snapshot

Giving Up Hope

Tobias Harris
Snapshot

Architects of Occupation: American Experts and Planning for Postwar Japan

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Andrew J. Nathan
Capsule Review

Japan's Political Shakeup

Jonathan Berkshire Miller
Snapshot

Japan’s Misadventure in South Sudan

Luke Patey
Letter From

Trump’s Gift to Japan

Takako Hikotani
Comment

Israel and Japan’s Rising Sun Relations

Matthew Brummer, Eitan Oren
Snapshot

Japan Warms to China

Jonathan Berkshire Miller
Snapshot

Asia in the Trump Era

Bilahari Kausikan
Review Essay

The Price of Abe's Pragmatism

Tom Le
Snapshot

Japan’s North Korea Options

Jonathan Berkshire Miller
Snapshot

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