Sponsored by the Government of JapanJapan’s Possible Acquisition of Long-Range Land-Attack Missiles and the Implications for the U.S.-Japan AllianceSummary of a February 2021 ConferenceSCOTT W. HAROLD, JEFFREY W. HORNUNG, SATORU MORI, SHINICHI KITAOKANATIONAL SECURITY RESEARCH DIVISION
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iiiAbout These Conference Proceedings The security environment in Northeast Asia is rapidly worsening. To better understand how this situation is affecting the debate in Japan over how to deter Chinese coercion and what role Japanese counterstrike capa-bilities and the U.S.-Japan alliance might play, the RAND Corporation organized a virtual conference on February 23, 2021. Caroline Kennedy, who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017, gave a keynote address on “The Importance of the U.S.-Japan Alliance,” in which she observed that one of the key issues that de...
