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A see-off ceremony for newly recruited soldiers is held on September 16, 2025, in Fuyang, China. (Getty Images)
Japan
Japan
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Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Sheean arrives in Devonport on April 22, 2021 in Tasmania, Australia. (Photo by POIS Andrew Dakin/Australian Defence Force via Getty Images)
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Japan's Ground Self-Defense Forces (JGSDF) soldiers during a live fire exercise at JGSDF's training grounds in the East Fuji Maneuver Area on May 22, 2021 in Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan. (Photo by Akio Kon - Pool/Getty Images)
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(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Haydn N. Smith)
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Fumio Kishida poses for a photograph following a press conference after winning the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election on September 29, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan (Photo by Du Xiaoyi - Pool/Getty Images)
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A F-35B executes a short takeoff from the USS America during allied exercises between the Royal Navy and US Marines in the Philippine Sea, Aug. 20, 2021. (US Marine Corps/John Tetrault)
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An extra edition of a daily newspaper reporting on Japans Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga deciding not to run for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidential election is distributed in Tokyo's Ginza district on September 3, 2021 (Photo by STR/JIJI PRESS
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Nobuo Kishi, Japan's defense minister, attends Japan's Ground Self-Defense Forces (JGSDF) live fire exercise at JGSDF's training grounds in the East Fuji Maneuver Area on May 22, 2021 in Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan (Photo by Akio Kon - Pool/Getty Images)
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A Japan's Ground Self-Defense Forces (JGSDF) soldier uses binoculars during a live fire exercise at JGSDF's training grounds in the East Fuji Maneuver Area on May 22, 2021 in Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan (Photo by Akio Kon - Pool/Getty Images)
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A protester holds a placard during a demonstration against the forthcoming Tokyo Olympic Games on June 06, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images)
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US President Joe Biden and Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga walk through the Colonnade to take part in a joint press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on April 16, 2021 (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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US President Joe Biden and Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga walk through the Colonnade to take part in a joint press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on April 16, 2021 (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via 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
