Saadia and I are looking forward to briefing the Eurasia Group on In Defense of Japan, following their invitation for us to follow up on our talk to the Institute for Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS) at Temple on June 3rd. Many thanks to Robert for that!

The talk at Temple was an outstanding success, with many many questions, and we are still following up. Of particular interest was that Japanese think tanks have started to take notice. As little as two years ago, I feel our talk would have been seen as controversial, but now discussion is deemed acceptable. And so it should be. That was also the point…