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An aerial view of a container ship arriving at the Port of Oakland on October 10, 2025, in Oakland, California. (Getty Images)
Security Alliances
Security Alliances
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President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attend a joint press conference in Tokyo, November 6, 2017 (The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
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(Image credit: Roy Scott)
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Pro-Kurdistan independence rally in Erbil, September 22, 2017 (Image credit: Levi Clancy)
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UN Security Council meeting on nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, September 21, 2017 (EuropaNewswire/Gado/Getty Images)
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Members of a Kurdish Peshmerga battalion show their ink-stained fingers after voting in the Kurdish independence referendum, September 25, 2017 (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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US and Japanese flags (photo by: Richard Cummins)
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reacts to North Korea's 6th nuclear test, September 3, 2017 (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump delivers remarks on Americas military involvement in Afghanistan, Arlington, VA, August 21, 2017 (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Experts
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
