Remembering Ron Asmus: An Atlanticist with a Commitment to Japan

Michito Tsuruoka, "Remembering Ron Asmus: An Atlanticist with a Commitment to Japan," Tokyo Foundation, 13 June 2011, is now online at the Tokyo Foundation's website. This is an English translation of the original Japanese edition released in May this year at the Tokyo Foundation's website and posted here then. Ron Asmus was without doubt a staunch Atlanticist, but it is worth remembering that he was also quite committed to developing new relationships with Japan and Asia.

(Full text link) http://www.tokyofoundation.org/en/topics/eurasia-information-network/ron-asumus
(Original Japanese edition) http://www.tkfd.or.jp/eurasia/europe/report.php?id=263

シンポジウム「EU・アジア・日本――EU対外政策のフロンティア」

EUSI（EU Studies Institute）主催のシンポジウム「EU・アジア・日本――EU対外政策のフロンティア」が、6月25‐26日（土・日）に慶應義塾大学三田キャンパスで開催されます。ご興味がおありの方は、是非お越しください。事前登録は不要です。プログラムは下記のEUSIウェブサイトに掲載されております。

（シンポジウムご案内）http://eusi.jp/content_jp/research/seminar-research/seminar-law/20110625-26_symposium.html

Relocating Tactical Nuclear Weapons?

Michito Tsuruoka, "Relocating Tactical Nuclear Weapons? A View from Japan," Tokyo Foundation, 30 May 2011, is now online at the Tokyo Foundation's website. The piece examines both the reasons to be concerned and not to be concerned regardig NATO's call for Russia to relocate tactical nuclear weapons away from NATO's territory, suggested in the new Strategic Concept (para. 26) adopted in November 2010. It is an English translation of the original Japanese edition released in April 2011 at the Tokyo Foundation's website and posted here then.

(Full text link) http://www.tokyofoundation.org/en/articles/2011/tactical-nuclea-weapons
(Original Japanese edition) http://www.tkfd.or.jp/eurasia/europe/report.php?id=253