APCSS’ Dr. Jeffrey Hornung recently published an article entitled “With a Left Like This, Who Needs the Right?”  The article discusses Japan’s political structure and its impact on national defense.  You can find the article online at:  http://csis.org/publication/japan-chair-platform-left-who-needs-right .

Japan Chair Platform is published by the Office of the Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

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Jeffrey Hornung is associate professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, the U.S. Pacific Command, the U.S. Department of Defense, or the U.S. government.