World-renowned medical journal the Lancet and JCIE teamed up to develop a special series on Japan's healthcare system. JCIE also published a Japanese translation of the series to reach a larger domestic audience.
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• An Enhanced Regional Architecture for East Asia— Satoru Mori [PDF 466k]
• US-Japan Cooperation on the Reform of International Organizations—Phillip Lipscy [PDF 615k]
• A New Framework for US-Japan Development Cooperation—James Gannon [PDF 608k]
• Freedom of Navigation and the US-Japan Alliance—Tetsuo Kotani [PDF 360k]
• Revitalizing US-Japan Collaboration on Global Health—Eriko Sase & Susan Hubbard [PDF 416k]
• The Rise of China and the Changing Regional Security Architecture—Ryo Sahashi [PDF 487k]

Since the end of the Cold War, new, nontraditional security threats have risen in prominence. While the countries in East Asia are embarking on the process of institutionalizing patterns of regional cooperation, more attention needs to be paid to creating institutions that are able to address these nontraditional security issues.
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American officials have declared that the United States is "back in Asia;" however, questions remain about what kind of role the United States will ultimately play in the evolving regional architecture. In this volume, experts from Asia and the United States explore US interests in a regional community and regional perspectives on the role that the United States should play in a new East Asia.
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