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Yuki Tatsumi
Yuki Tatsumi is Director of the Japan Program at the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C.
Yuki Tatsumi is a Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the Japan Program at the Stimson Center. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Canon Institute for Global Studies in Tokyo, Japan. She is a co-author of Global Security Watch: Japan (Praeger, 2010), an author of Opportunity out of Necessity: Impacts of US Defense Budget Cuts on the US-Japan Alliance (Stimson, 2013), and Japan’s National Security Policy Infrastructure: Can Tokyo Meet Washington’s Expectations? (Stimson Center, 2008). She also is an editor of several books, including US-Japan-Australia Security Cooperation: Prospects and Challenges (Stimson, 2015), Japan’s Global Diplomacy: View from Next Generation (Stimson, 2015) and Japan’s Challenges in East Asia: View from Next Generation (Stimson, 2015).
Tatsumi holds a B.A. in liberal arts from the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan and an M.A. in international economics and Asian studies from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington.

January 23, 2020
The Tough Road Ahead for US-Japan Host Nation Support Negotiations
By Yuki Tatsumi

February 27, 2019
The Second Trump Kim Summit: No Good Option for Japan?
By Yuki Tatsumi

May 16, 2018
Trump-Kim Meeting Is Set. What Now For Japan?
By Yuki Tatsumi

January 11, 2018
The Japan-South Korea ‘Comfort Women’ Agreement Survives (Barely)
By Yuki Tatsumi

January 03, 2018
Japan's Defense Policy Decisions in 2018
By Yuki Tatsumi

December 21, 2017
The US National Security Strategy: Implications for the Indo-Pacific
By Yuki Tatsumi

December 12, 2017
What North Korea's ICBM Means for Japan's Defense Planning
By Yuki Tatsumi

November 08, 2017
Trump Meets Abe: Beyond the Publicity
By Yuki Tatsumi

September 28, 2017
Yuriko Koike’s New Party: A Real Game-Changer for Japanese Politics?
By Yuki Tatsumi

August 10, 2017
What It Would Really Take for a US Preemptive Strike on North Korea
By Yuki Tatsumi

July 07, 2017
Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly Election: Winners and Losers
By Yuki Tatsumi
