Kent Calder's Congressional Testimony

Dr. Kent Calder, the Director of the Reischauer Center, has given a Congressional testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittiee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment on June 25, 2009, titled "Japan's Changing Role." For the details on the testimony, click here.

"Neither Japanese politics nor the U.S.-Japan relationship today are static. Indeed, Japanese politics may well be on the verge of historic change. Understanding and coping with that prospect of historic change in Tokyo is the distinctive, unusual challenge that American policy-makers confront today—one that they have not faced with such intensity in nearly half a century. Read more.
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