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Professor Chris Hughes, Head of Department, was recently quoted in a 19 May Defense News article entitled 'Abe Sprints Toward Expanding Japan's Military Posture'. Below is an excerpt from the piece:

“[C]learly this ... really could be the final tipping point for Japan overturning its postwar security policy,” said Christopher Hughes, a Japan military expert and professor of international politics and Japanese studies at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV. “It would ... mean that Japan could do an awful lot more militarily in support of the US and other partners in the East Asia region and beyond, and it will set precedents and set Japan on the way to further expansion of military activities in the future."