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  • 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

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