Who is Shigeru Ishiba, the former defense minister and newly-elected leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and the next Prime Minister of Japan? What should we expect from him and his polices toward Korea, China, the U.S. and the world?
Joining Mark Lippert to discuss this and more are Dr. Sheila Smith from the Council on Foreign Relations, Ms. Yuki Tatsumi from the Stimson Center and Mr. Nicholas Szechenyi and Dr. Katrin Katz from CSIS.
Sheila A. Smith is John E. Merow senior fellow for Asia-Pacific studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). An expert on Japanese politics and foreign policy, she is the author of Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power, Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China (released in Japanese as 日中 親愛なる宿敵: 変容する日本政治と対中政策), and Japan's New Politics and the U.S.-Japan Alliance. She is also the author of the CFR interactive guide Constitutional Change in Japan. Smith is a regular contributor to the CFR blog Asia Unbound and a frequent contributor to major media outlets in the United States and Asia.
Yuki Tatsumi is a Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the Japan Program at the Stimson Center. Before joining Stimson, Tatsumi worked as a research associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and as the special assistant for political affairs at the Embassy of Japan in Washington.
Katrin Fraser Katz is an adjunct fellow (non-resident) in the Office of the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. She is also a professor of practice in the Department of Political Science and the Master of Arts in International Administration (MAIA) program at the University of Miami and the Van Fleet nonresident senior fellow at the Korea Society in New York.
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