Event: Japan Rearmed after Covid-19: A Conversation with Sheila Smith
Channel: War Studies KCL
Date: 01/06/2020

This webinar was originally hosted on May 27, 2020 at 5:00 PM BST by Dr Alessio Patalano of the King's Japan Programme with author Sheila Smith.

Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power, Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China

Japan’s United States–imposed postwar constitution renounced the use of offensive military force, but, Sheila A. Smith shows a nuclear North Korea and an increasingly assertive China have the Japanese rethinking that commitment—and their reliance on U.S. security.

Sheila Smith:
Sheila A. Smith is senior fellow for Japan studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). An expert on Japanese politics and foreign policy, she is the author of Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power, Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China (released in Japanese as 日中 親愛なる宿敵: 変容する日本政治と対中政策), and Japan's New Politics and the U.S.-Japan Alliance. She is also the author of the CFR interactive guide Constitutional Change in Japan. Smith is a regular contributor to the CFR blog Asia Unbound and a frequent contributor to major media outlets in the United States and Asia.