Revitalizing the U.S.-Japan Alliance

Patrick M. Cronin, Daniel M. Kliman and Abraham M. Denmark | Center for a New American Security | 2010-10-27

This report outlines how the United States and Japan can fully realize the potential of their alliance and lays out concrete steps to enhance U.S.-Japan security cooperation and strengthen the bilateral institutions, public support, and fiscal health that constitute the alliance’s foundation. "The U.S.-Japan alliance is at a turning point. As the two allies celebrate a half century of accomplishments, they confront a strategic environment of unprecedented complexity," the report states. "In this strategic environment, the alliance has immense potential to advance American and Japanese interests and to contribute to a peaceful and prosperous world."