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Introduction
Richard J. Samuels (With Daniel Sneider)
In Elisabeth Rubinfein, Richard J. Samuels, and Daniel Sneider, eds., Japan and the United States: The Journey of a Defeated Nation, A Diplomat’s Memoir by Yukio Okamoto (Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2024)
December 2024
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La communauté japonaise du renseignment
“La communauté japonaise du renseignment” (The Japanese Intelligence Community)
Richard J. Samuels
in Paul Charon and Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, eds, Les Mondes du renseignement: Approches, acteurs, enjeux (Paris: PUF, 2024)
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Pushing on an Open Door: Japan’s Evolutionary Security Posture
Eric Heginbotham, Samuel Leiter, and Richard J. Samuels
The Washington Quarterly Vol. 46, No. 2 (Summer 2023)
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After Abe, Japan tries to balance ties to the US and China
Richard Samuels
The Wall Street Journal, July 28, 2022
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The Rise, Fall, and Reinvention of the Japanese Intelligence Community
Richard J. Samuels
in Ryan Chaffer, ed., The Handbook of Asian Intelligence Cultures (London: Roman and Littlefield, 2021)
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Adjust the Asia strategy
Eric Heginbotham and Richard J. Samuels
Precis, MIT Center for International Studies, Fall20/Winter21
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Writing About Japan
Richard J. Samuels
In Nora Kottmann and Cornelia Reiher, eds., Studying Japan: Handbook of Research, Fieldwork and Methods (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgessellschaft, 2020)
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Why the U.S. Dropped Atomic Bombs on Japan
Richard J. Samuels
New York Times, August 3, 2020
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Vulnerable Alliances: U.S. Unpredictability and the Search for a ‘Plan B’ in South Korea and Japan
Eric Heginbotham and Richard J. Samuels
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“La communauté de renseignement japonaise,” (The Japanese Intelligence Community)
Richard J. Samuels
in Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, Jean-Vincent Holeindre and Paul Chareon, eds. Le Renseignement : Approches, acteurs et enjeux, (Intelligence: Approaches, Actors and Issues), Paris: Institute for Strategic Research Ecole Militaire, 2020.
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Writing About Japan
Richard J. Samuels
in Nora Kottmann and Cornelia Reiher, eds. Studying Japan: Handbook of Research Design, Fieldwork and Methods.” Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgessellschaft, 2020.
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Japan's whack-a-mole foreign policy
Richard J. Samuels
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Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community
Richard J. Samuels
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Japan’s View of Nuclear North Korea: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Eric Heginbotham and Richard J. Samuels
Chapter in William Overholt, ed. North Korea: Peace? Nuclear War? Cambridge, MA: The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard University, 2019.
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An agenda for Japanese military reform
Eric Heginbotham and Richard J. Samuels
East Asia Forum Quarterly, July-September 2018
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A New Military Strategy for Japan
Eric Heginbotham and Richard Samuels
Foreign Affairs, July 16, 2018
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Introduction: Japan's pivot in Asia
Richard J. Samuels, Corey Wallace
International Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 4, 1 July 2018, Pages 703–710
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Japan's National Security Council: filling the whole of government?
Mayumi Fukushima and Richard J. Samuels
International Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 4, 1 July 2018, Pages 773–790
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Japan’s Nuclear Hedge: Beyond ‘Allergy’ and ‘Breakout’
Richad J. Samuels
in Demetrios James Caraley and Robert Jervis, eds. The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Extending the U.S. Umbrella and Increasing Chances of War. New York: The Academy of Political Science, 2018 (with James Schoff).
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