Commentary

  • VIDEO: Panel Discussion, “JFK, RFK, and Japan,” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Forum, March 13, 2014. With Akira Iriye and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. (watch video)
  • “Camelot’s Contributions to the U.S.-Japan Alliance,” Newsweek Japan, April 2013.
  • “Normal Japan,” Newsweek Japan, February 6, 2013.
  • Japan, the Never Normal,” Guest post at “Asia Unbound,” Council on Foreign Relations blog, November 20, 2012.
  • “Planning for North Korean Collapse,” Asahi Shimbun, December 16, 2010.
  • “Symbolic Gestures: Lessons for East Asia from a Compromise on History in America,” Global Asia, June 2010. [pdf]
  • “A New Solution for Japan’s History Problems,” International Herald Tribune, June 25, 2009 (English)
  • “A New Solution for Japan’s History Problems”  Asahi GLOBE, June 22, 2009 (Japanese)
  • “Think Again: The East Asia Textbook Dispute,” Foreign Policy, August 2005.