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Posted: October 28th, 2015

By James Schoff

James L. Schoff is a senior associate in the Carnegie Asia Program. He previously served as senior advisor for East Asia policy at the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense and as director of Asia Pacific Studies at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis.  His publications include a chapter on Japan in Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age; Power, Ambition, and the Ultimate Weapon, Nuclear Matters in North Korea: Building a Multilateral Response for Future Stability in Northeast Asia, and Tools for Trilateralism: Improving U.S.-Japan-Korea Cooperation to Manage Complex Contingencies.

Jim Schoff is a Senior Associate with the Carnegie Asia Program.  Schoff spoke with The Cipher Brief about Japan’s new national security law and its implications within East Asia. He says that with the expansion of the Japanese Self Defense Forces, military planning and cooperation in East Asia is likely to improve.

The Cipher Brief: Can you put Japan’s new national security law into context for our readers? What does this mean for Japan both domestically and internationally?  How do you expect nations within East Asia to respond? 

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