Japan Reacts to Trump’s Victory, With Sheila Smith (Transition 2025, Episode 6)

Sheila Smith, the John E. Merow senior fellow for Asia-Pacific studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how Trump’s victory is being viewed in Japan and what his presidency will mean for U.S.-Japanese relations and the security situation in northeast Asia. This episode is the sixth in a special TPI series on the U.S. 2025 presidential transition and is supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Mentioned on the Episode

Sheila Smith,Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power (hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674987647)

Sheila Smith, "Governing from Weakness: The LDP Under Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru (thediplomat.com/2024/11/governing-from-weaknes…)," The Diplomat

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