The U.S.-Japan security alliance : regional multilateralism / edited by Takashi Inoguchi, G. John Ikenberry, and Yoichiro Sato.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Alliance constrained: Japan, the United States, and regional security -- Costs and benefits of the U.S.-Japan alliance from the Japanese perspective -- Refining the U.S.-Japan strategic bargain -- The merits of alliance: a Japanese perspective. logic underpins Japan's global and regional security role? -- Global costs and benefits of the U.S.-Japan alliance: an American view -- Korea and the Japan-United States alliance: a Japanese perspective -- Korea and the United States-Japan alliance: an American perspective -- Liberal deterrence of China: challenges in achieving Japan's China policy -- The security dilemma in Asian architecture: U.S., Japan, and China -- How Russia matters in Japan-U.S. alliance -- The U.S.-Japan alliance and Russia -- Evolution of the Australia-Japan security partnership: toward a softer triangle alliance with the United States -- The United States, Japan, and Australia: security linkages to Southeast Asia -- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization: new chances for the Japan-U.S. alliance.

Despite the Bush administration's rhetorical emphasis on the U.S.-Japan alliance as the "cornerstone of U.S. security policy in Asia," the alliance evolved into one cog of U.S. global security partnerships as Japan sent its troops to remote locations like the Indian Ocean and Iraq. In Asia, Japan's desire to cement the U.S. commitment to its security has suffered from both perceived lack of American credibility and the United States' lack of sensitivities to Japan's relations with its regional neighbors. In this book, a team of American and Japanese experts examine to what extent diverging priorities in the U.S.-Japan alliance are real and whether they are not remedied with political and diplomatic leadership and other processes. American and Japanese authors are paired to analyze the same topic, where doing so is possible, for comparing their perspectives.