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This report examines policy changes that have driven actual and proposed shifts in the alliance between the U.S. and Japan. Key features of the proposals include a reduction in the number of U.S. Marines in Japan, the relocation of a controversial Marine air base in Okinawa, expanded cooperation in training and intelligence sharing, and command structure changes. The report concludes with a number of potential options for U.S. policymakers to protect U.S. security interests in the Asia Pacific. Those options include further bolstering Japan's military, reducing the U.S military presence in the region, encouraging Japan to focus on international peacekeeping and reconstruction operations, developing trilateral defense cooperation, and creating a security forum in northeast Asia.

This report discusses issues surrounding Japan's interest in purchasing the F-22A Raptor aircraft from the United States. Although the export of the plane is now prohibited by U.S. law, Congress has recently and may again consider repealing this ban.

Examines the rise of the People's Republic of China and globalization forces in the emerging order of Northeast Asia, focusing on the use of "soft power" to dictate policy directions for China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. Attention is given to the state of regional bilateral relationships broken out in different strata, eg, military ties, economic relations, diplomacy.

This report includes information regarding Thailand, its background, and relations with the United States. Sections include security and regional relations.