Asia Pacific Initiative has produced a shortened Japanese version of “The Article II Mandate: Forging a Stronger Economic Alliance between the United States and Japan.” The original English report was jointly written with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington-based think tank. The report recommends that the United States and Japan strengthen their coordination of economic policies in the Indo-Pacific region given their shared shared geopolitical interests.

* Please click here to read the Japanese shortened report