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December 20, 2006

Disasters
Assessing the Tsunami Warning System

Two years after a tsunami devastated several Indian Ocean countries, a rudimentary warning system is in place. But coordination and funding concerns have slowed plans for a permanent regional system.

Backgrounder by Rebecca Bloom

December 1, 2008

Defense and Security
Symposium on the U.S.-Japan Partnership: An Agenda For Change

This symposium was cosponsored by Council on Foreign Relations and the Asahi-Shimbun. Widely acclaimed as the most respected and credible source of news in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, the Asa…

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December 1, 2008

Economic Crises
Symposium on the U.S.-Japan Partnership: Session Two: The Global Economy

Watch experts explain the origins of the financial crisis and its effect on Japan, as well as on U.S.-Japanese trade. This session was part of the CFR Symposium on the U.S.-Japan Partnership: An Age…

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June 10, 2010

Japan
Kan’s Kiheitai-Japan’s Militia

Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Issei Kato On June 4, the national legislators of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) gathered to select Naoto Kan as their party’s new leader, and thus as Japan’s new Prim…

Kan’s Kiheitai-Japan’s Militia
Blog Post by Sheila A. Smith Asia Unbound

March 28, 2011

Disasters
A Conversation with Raymond E. Mabus

Secretary of the U.S. Navy Raymond E. Mabus discusses the operations of the U.S. Navy as it responds to high-end combat, builds partnerships, and implements humanitarian assistance and disaster relie…

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