Takuya Matsuda joins the program to discuss Japan's Cold War and post-Cold War approach to international relations, culminating in its current policy of Maritime Realism. Topics include relations with the US, the importance of the Japanese National Security Council, Japan's relationships with its neighbors (the Quad!) and more. Don't sleep on the links either!
Links:
1. Explaining Japan's post-Cold War security policy trajectory: maritime realism by Tokuya Matsuda, Australian Journal of International Affairs, June 20, 2020
2. Navies and Foreign Policy by Ken Booth
3. Dragon Against the Sun: Chinese Views of Japanese Seapower, by Toshi Yoshihara, Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments
4. Geopolitics Redux: Explaining the Japanese-Korea Dispute and Its Implications for Great Power Competion by Takuya Matsuda and Jaehan Park, War on the Rocks, November 7, 2019