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The U.S.-Japan alliance has been faced with various challenges in both domestic and international politics since the end of the cold war. Compared to other American alliances such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the U.S.-South Korea alliance, however, the U.S.-Japan alliance is still stable and becoming strong.
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George F. Kennan, Memoirs 1950–1963 ( Boston: Little Brown, 1972 ), p. 396.
Yoshida Shigeru, The Yoshida Memoirs: The Story of Japan in Crisis, trans. Yoshida Kenichi (Westport, CO: Greenwood Press, 1961 ), p. 8.
Michael H. Armacost, Friends or Rivals? The Insider’s Account of U.S. japan Relations ( NY: Columbia University Press, 1991 ), p. 81.
Henry Kissinger, Does America Need a Foreign Policy?: Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2001), especially p. 288.
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Murata, K. (2007). U.S.-Japan Alliance as a Flexible Institution. In: The Uses of Institutions: The U.S., Japan, and Governance in East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230603547_6
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