Over the nearly eight decades since the end of World War II, some people in the United States well-versed in the political, economic and social realities of Japan have been involved in efforts to forge closer bilateral relations. The roles of such Americans, known as "Japan hands," can shift depending on the circumstances surrounding the Tokyo-Washington alliance at any given time, with the primary factor in recent years being an increasingly assertive China."We don't need a figure like Edwin Reischauer today," said Christopher Johnstone, the Japan Chair of the Center for Strategic and Inte…READ FULL ARTICLE
