Headed to Washington to deliver talks on different Japan-related projects. Tuesday, March 29: “Japan’s Security Evolution,” CATO Institute, 12:00pm. Will be speaking on a panel with OSD’s Amy Searight and CRS’s Emma Chanlett-Avery (chaired by[…]
Japan’s Security Evolution
As Japan passed security legislation in fall 2015, many headlines proclaimed that Japan was “abandoning pacifism.” This conventional wisdom gets two things wrong: it exaggerates the extent to which Japan was actually pacifist in the[…]
Another nuclear test
We all watched as the TV announcer in the pink hanbok praised North Korea’s successful test of a hydrogen bomb. The North Korean media once also told us that Kim Jong-il hit five holes-in-one at[…]