Skip to content - How Asia Learned to Live With “America First”
John Lee - Japan’s Point of No Return
Daisuke Kawai - Why Japan and South Korea Won’t Go Nuclear
Victor Cha and Kristi Govella - The Return of Japanese Hard Power
Matthew Finkel - How Takaichi Can Triumph
Michael J. Green - Japan’s National Security Reckoning
Masataka Okano - Japan Can’t Go It Alone
Dan Blumenthal, Mike Kuiken, and Randy Schriver - Are Japan and South Korea Poised for a Historic Breakthrough?
Ayumi Teraoka - America’s Allies Should Go Nuclear
Moritz S. Graefrath and Mark A. Raymond - Japan’s Stalled Immigration Experiment
Gracia Liu-Farrer, Takeshi Miyai , and Yu Korekawa - Japan Can Keep the Indo-Pacific Open and Free
Shihoko Goto - Asia’s Trump Problem
Michael J. Green - How America Outcompeted Japan
Carl Benedikt Frey - Tokyo’s Leadership Vacuum
Mireya Solís - Should Asia Make It Official?
Ken Jimbo and Ely Ratner - How Japan—and Other U.S. Allies—Can Work Around America
Tatsuya Terazawa - How Nostalgia Ruins Economies
Harold James and Marie-Louise James - The Case for a Pacific Defense Pact
Ely Ratner - The Resurgence of Europe
Arancha González Laya - Order Without America
Ngaire Woods - The Japanese Military Has a People Problem
Tom Le - Does America Face a “Ship Gap” With China?
Stephen Biddle and Eric Labs - Base Towns: Local Contestation of the U.S. Military in Korea and Japan
Andrew J. Nathan - East Asia’s Coming Population Collapse
Nicholas Eberstadt - The Secret to Japanese and South Korean Innovation
Ramon Pacheco Pardo and Robyn Klingler-Vidra - Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty
Andrew J. Nathan - Japan’s China Reckoning
Tomohiko Taniguchi - America’s Best Friend in Asia
Jeffrey W. Hornung - What Holds Japan Back
Richard Katz - America Can’t Surpass China’s Power in Asia
Kelly A. Grieco and Jennifer Kavanagh - Taiwan’s Status Quo Election
David Sacks - Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific
Andrew J. Nathan - Contemporary Japanese Politics and Anxiety Over Governance
Andrew J. Nathan - Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance
Andrew J. Nathan - Japan’s Nuremberg
Jennifer Lind - America’s Window of Opportunity in Asia
Andrew Yeo, Mireya Solís, and Hanna Foreman - The Great Convergence
Branko Milanovic - The New Meaning of Hiroshima
Fumio Kishida - South Korea’s Coming Era of Stagnation
Jaejoon Woo - America Needs to Reassure Japan and South Korea
Katrin Fraser Katz, Christopher Johnstone, and Victor Cha - To Make Japan Stronger, America Must Pull It Closer
Christopher Johnstone - Japan Steps Up
Jennifer Lind - Japan and South Korea Are Still Haunted by the Past
Eun A Jo - Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzo
Andrew J. Nathan - Why Japan Belongs in AUKUS
Michael Auslin - Japan and South Korea Can No Longer Let History Thwart Cooperation
Victor Cha and Christopher Johnstone - Why Shinzo Abe Thought Japan Had to Change
Jennifer Lind - The Real End of Pax Americana
Mark Leonard - How to Mend the Rift Between Japan and South Korea
Kristi Govella and Bonnie S. Glaser - How the Ukraine War Is Changing Japan
Takako Hikotani - A Practical Vision for South Korea
Lee Jae-Myung - Japan’s Hard Choices
Sheila A. Smith - The Political Economy of the Abe Government and Abenomics Reforms
Andrew J. Nathan - Why Nobody Invests in Japan
Richard Katz - Why the Quad Alarms China
Kevin Rudd - Japan Is Indispensable Again
Akira Igata and Brad Glosserman - The Surprising Strength of Chinese-Japanese Ties
Tobias Harris - Washington Is Avoiding the Tough Questions on Taiwan and China
Charles L. Glaser - Japan’s Looming Climate Showdown
Richard Katz - Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory
Lawrence D. Freedman - How the Quad Can Match the Hype
Dhruva Jaishankar and Tanvi Madan - Japan Is the New Leader of Asia’s Liberal Order
Chang Che - Can America Restore Its Credibility in Asia?
Michael J. Green and Evan S. Medeiros - Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps
Andrew J. Nathan - The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II
Lawrence D. Freedman - Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
Lawrence D. Freedman - Three Books on Asian Political Leaders
Andrew J. Nathan - The Underappreciated Power
Mireya Solís - Shinzo Abe Will Be a Tough Act to Follow
Tobias Harris - America’s Exceptional Housing Crisis
Sam Winter-Levy and Bryan Schonfeld - The Age of Hiroshima
Jessica T. Mathews - To Protect and to Serve
Laurence Ralph - Post-Pandemic Japan Will Attract the World
Gracia Liu-Farrer - Reluctant Warriors: Germany, Japan, and Their U.S. Alliance Dilemma
G. John Ikenberry - The Climate Club
William Nordhaus - China and Japan: Facing History
Sheila A. Smith - Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community
Andrew J. Nathan - The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War
Andrew J. Nathan - How an Alliance System Withers
Bonnie S. Glaser and Oriana Skylar Mastro - Japan’s Upper House is No Place for a Woman
Chelsea Szendi Schieder - Japan and South Korea Can’t Get Along
Celeste L. Arrington and Andrew Yeo - Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power
Andrew J. Nathan - Rampage
Lawrence D. Freedman - Peak Japan: The End of Great Ambitions
Andrew J. Nathan - Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan
Andrew J. Nathan - Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan
Andrew J. Nathan - Japan's Population Implosion: The 50 Million Shock
Andrew J. Nathan - Is Japan Becoming a Country of Immigration?
Yunchen Tian and Erin Aeran Chung - A New Military Strategy for Japan
Eric Heginbotham and Richard J. Samuels - What a U.S.–North Korean Summit Means for Japan
Sheila A. Smith - Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice After the Second World War
Andrew J. Nathan - Can China Internationalize the RMB?
Saori N. Katada - How Abe and Modi Can Save the Indo-Pacific
Jonathan Berkshire Miller - Abe’s Victory and Constitutional Revision
Jeffrey W. Hornung and Kenneth M. McElwain - Giving Up Hope
Tobias Harris - Architects of Occupation: American Experts and Planning for Postwar Japan
Andrew J. Nathan - Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Andrew J. Nathan - Japan's Political Shakeup
Jonathan Berkshire Miller - Japan’s Misadventure in South Sudan
Luke Patey - Trump’s Gift to Japan
Takako Hikotani