Summary The promise of dramatic strategic change on the Korean Peninsula poses a wide array of short- and long-term challenges as well as opportunities for…
Country or Region: Japan
Summary The 1990s saw a sea change in East Asian security concerns. The role of the ocean as a highway for trade and a location…
Summary Ralf Emmers assesses whether the joint exploration and development of resources can act as a means to reduce tensions in contested territories.
Abstract Discusses the distinctive organization gap in Northeast Asia. Influence of domestic interests and foreign policy considerations on organization gap; Details of the critical juncture…
Summary This book—the culmination of a truly collaborative international and highly interdisciplinary effort—brings together Japanese and American political scientists, nuclear engineers, historians, and physicists to…
Abstract Japanese, American, and East Asian security interests each would be better served by a Japanese state that publicly admits to possession and accepts the…
Abstract After the Fukushima disaster, the authors analyzed all past core-melt accidents and estimated a failure rate of 1 per 3704 reactor years. This rate…
Abstract This article examines the relative importance of international versus domestic considerations in order to predict how Japanese politicians will behave with regards to the…
Abstract In August 2015, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe released a statement on the seventieth anniversary of Japan’s defeat in the Second World War. In the…
Abstract The aftermath of the failure of two reactors in the spring of 2011 at Fukushima, Japan, involves more than background radiation or cleanup. In…
Abstract East Asian theatre is fast evolving. China’s arrival as a major power in international politics is altering the existing regional balance of power and…
Abstract After the end of World War II, the Republic of Korea (ROK), having gained independence from Japan, established a new ROK Armed Forces under…
Summary Japan’s Great Stagnation and Abenomics chronicles Japan’s Great Stagnation and reveals the striking similarities of economic events and policies between the Great Stagnation and…
Abstract Japan’s principal security interest in Southeast Asia is the safety and security of regional sea lanes. Over the past several years, Japan has expressed…
Abstract This article examines issues concerning the South China Sea from a Japanese perspective. In contrast to its reticence and hesitant attitude in the 1990s,…
