Betting on a Bolder Japan

September 16, 2005

Steven Clemons and Andrew Oros explore Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's stunning victory in the recent Lower House elections.

The article, originally published in The Japan Times on September 15, 2005, can be read in its entirety at The Japan Times online.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?eo20050915a1.htm


Steven C. Clemons, a member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy's executive committee, is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and director of the Japan Policy Research Institute. Andrew L. Oros, an assistant professor of political science at Washington College, is the author of the forthcoming book The New Politics of Antimilitarism: Explaining Japan's Evolving Security Practices.

Posted by coalition at September 16, 2005 09:38 AM

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