Publication

This conference report sheds light on US and Japenese security perspectives, the US pivot to Asia and the balance of power in the Asia Pacific region. Government officials, security specialists, and next-generation analysts reflect on the future of the alliance relationship, while focusing on extended deterrence in Northeast Asia. US participants identified the US forward military presence as the most important element of its Asia policy, and Japanese participants called for new US-Japan Defense Guidelines, whose core element would affirm the significance of that presence on Japanese soil.