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A US flag flies off the stern of a tour boat at the Port of Los Angele in California on July 31, 2025. (Getty Images)
Japan
Japan
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Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, U.S. President Joe Biden, and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity in Tokyo on May 23, 2022. (Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
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Field artillery cannoneer emplaces M777A2 Howitzer during Artillery Relocation Training Program 21.1, at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, Japan, April 26, 2021. (U.S. Marine Corps/ Michael Jefferson Estillomo)
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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks alongside Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore in the East Room of the White House on March 29, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks on the Biden administration's Indo-Pacific strategy at the Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia on December 14, 2021. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida makes a national statement during day three of COP26 at SECC on November 2, 2021 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. (Photo by Hannah McKay - Pool/Getty Images)
Experts
William Chou
Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Japan Chair
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Mark Siegel
Adjunct Fellow
Paul Sracic
Adjunct Fellow
