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Securing JapanTokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia\nAuthor(s): Richard J. Samuels\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801474903, 978-0801474903\nSynopsis\nFor the past sixty years, the [url] government has assumed that Japan's security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. Korea's nuclear program, China's rise, and the relative decline of [url] power have commanded strategic review in Tokyo just as these matters have in Washington. What is the next step for Japan's security policy? Will confluence with [url] interestsand the alliancesurvive intact? Will the policy be transformed? Or will Japan become more autonomous?\n\n Richard J. Samuels demonstrates that over the last decade, a revisionist group of Japanese policymakers has consolidated power. The Koizumi government of the early 2000s took bold ste.