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All posts tagged "U.S.-Japan Alliance"
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3.2KSecurityRelevance Despite Obscurity: Japan and UN Command
On January 16, Canada hosted the Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on Security and Stability of the Korean Peninsula. There, representatives from 20 nations...
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2.6KSecurityJapan’s Security Legislation Turns Two
Two years after the passage of Japan's 2015 Peace and Security Legislation, how has the deeply controversial bill actually been implemented in...
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2.0KEconomyChaos Reigns in U.S. Trade Policy
Japan and other U.S. partners are scrambling to understand Donald Trump's trade policy - but many signs point to it simply being...
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1.5KPoliticsIs Trump Still a Safe Bet for Japan?
As Donald Trump's presidency signals a new paradigm for American politics, Japan faces tough questions about the future of its most important...
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2.7KSecurityNorth Korea: Decoupling the U.S.-Japan Alliance
Tension over North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs recently took a startlingly intimate turn for residents of Japan’s northernmost prefectures, who were...
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5.1KSocietyThe Dark Side of Japan’s “Okinawa Boom”
There is probably some hypocrisy in discussing the appropriation of Okinawan culture from an Okinawan restaurant that has recently opened in a...
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3.0KSecurityJapan’s Maritime Strategy and the Dynamics of Denial
To paraphrase a political science aphorism, where a nation sits geographically is where it stands strategically. As an archipelago stretching over thousands...