United States in Asia-Pacific region. Expert community’s impact on the presidential decision-making
Journal: Asia and Africa today
Year: 2019

Japan is a significant partner of the United States in a number of foreign policy areas, including addressing regional security concerns, which range from hedging against Chinese military modernization to countering threats from North Korea. The U.S.-Japan military alliance, formed in 1952, grants the U.S. military the right to base U.S. troops-currently around 54,000 strongand other military assets on Japanese territory, undergirding the "