WASHINGTON -- The biggest issue facing Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is how best to work with the next U.S. president on security issues in the Indo-Pacific region. With the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's defeat in the Oct. 27 general election in Japan, and just ahead of the U.S. presidential election, Nikkei spoke with Professor Kent Calder of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies about the future of U.S.-Japan relations in face of political uncertainty.
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Japan's importance as Indo-Pacific partner grows amid 'new cold wars'
U.S. looks to Tokyo's stability as tensions rise across the region, says Johns Hopkins' Calder
Kent E. Calder, director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University speaks to Nikkei on Oct. 14.(Photo by Yukihiro Sakaguchi)
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