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Stacks of Iranian rials and US dollars sit on a table in Tehran, Iran, on August 6, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Significant construction and dredging underway at Mischief Reef, March 16, 2015. (Photo DigitalGlobe via Getty Images)
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks on before taking a ride in a Model S P85D with Tesla CEO Elon Musk at Tesla's headquarters in Palo Alto, California on April 30, 2015. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)
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South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the US ambassador's residence in The Hague on March 25, 2014. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
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Russian nuclear missile Topol-M (rusm/Getty Images)
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Australians Andrew Chan (R) and Myuran Sukumaran (L) behind the bars of a court cell before their trial in Denpasar, on Bali island, February 14, 2006. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the Capitol's House chamber, April 29, 2015. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
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Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe arrives at the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit on March 24, 2014 in The Hague, Netherlands. (Evert-Jan Daniels - Pool/Getty Images)
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South Korean activists during a rally denouncing Abe's speech at the US Congress, near the Japanese embassy in Seoul on April 30, 2015. (JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)
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South Korean activists tear a banner showing a picture of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a protest outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul on April 28, 2015. (JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
Patrick M. Cronin
Asia-Pacific Security Chair
Bill Drexel
Senior Fellow
Garrett Exner
Adjunct Fellow
David Feith
Senior Fellow
Mike Gallagher
Distinguished Fellow
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Charles Horner
Senior Fellow
Jason Hsu
Senior Fellow
Komei Isozaki
Japan Chair Fellow
Melanie Kirkpatrick
Senior Fellow
Mary Kissel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
John Lee
Senior Fellow
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Walter Russell Mead
Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Steven Quay
Senior Fellow
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Mark Siegel
Adjunct Fellow
Michael Sobolik
Senior Fellow
Robert Spalding
Senior Fellow
Paul Sracic
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Koichiro Takagi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Iku Tsujihiro
Research Associate
Riley Walters
Senior Fellow
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
Miles Yu
Senior Fellow and Director, China Center
