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Publications

• Key Challenges in Japan's Defense Policy (Stimson Center, March 2020)
• China-Russia Security Cooperation: Implications for Japan (National Bureau of Asian Research, May 30, 2019)
• International disaster response: Rebalancing the Quad? (Stimson Center, March 2019)
• Balancing Between Nuclear Deterrence and Disarmament: Views from the Next Generation (Stimson Center, 2018)
• Lost In Translation? U.S. Defense Innovation and Northeast Asia (Stimson Center, 2017)
• Japan and Peacebuilding:Views from the Next Generation (Stimson Center 2017)
• Japan as a Peace Enabler: Views from the Next Generation (Stimosn Center, 2016)
• US-Japan-Australia Security Cooperation: Prospects and Challenges (Stimson Center, 2015)
• Japan's Global Diplomacy: Views from the Next Generation (Stimson Center, 2015)
• Japan's Foreign Policy Challenges in East Asia: Views from the Next Generation (Stimson Center, 2014)
• Opportunity out of Necessity: The Impact of US Defense Budget Cuts on the US-Japan Alliance (Stimson Center 2013)
• The New Nuclear Agenda: Prospects for US-Japan Cooperation (Stimson Center, 2012)
• North Korea: Challenge for the US-Japan Alliance (Stimson Center, March 2011)
• Global Security Watch: Japan (co-author) (Praeger Publishers, September 2010)
• Japan's National Security Infrastructure: Can Tokyo Meet Washington's Expectation? (Stimson Center, 2008)
• Strategic Yet Strained: US Force Realignment in Japan and its Effects on Okinawa (editor and contributor) (Stimson Center, 2008)
• Japan's National Defense Establishment: Institutions, Capabilities and Implications (editor and contributor) (Stimson Center, 2007)

Papers

• "Japan's approach to terrorism" Asian Conflicts Report, Spring 2016 (Geneva Center for Security Policy)
• "Japan Under DPJ Rule: The Costs for Overemphasizing Polical Leadership" (Harvard International Review, Winter 2013)
• "Great East Japan Earthquake: Lessons Learned for Japan's Defense Posture" (Asia-Pacific Review, November 2012)
• “A Short-Term Challenge to the US-Japan Alliance Putting its Long-Term Health at Risk” Asia Policy Number 10 (July 2010) pp. 35-42.
• “US foreign policy and the role and the function of think tanks” (co-author) Kokusai Mondai, October 2008
• “Japan's public diplomacy study: how to effectively communicate information in national interest” (co-author) Tokyo Foundation 2007

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