Patrick Cronin, PhD, senior advisor and senior director of the Center for a New American Security’s Asia-Pacific Security Program, discusses Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe’s decision to call snap elections, his desire to “legitimize” the Japan Self-Defense Forces and international concerns over the country’s remilitarization, previews the 4th-annual Mt. Fuji Dialogue and more during Part 1 of an October 2017 interview with the Defense & Aerospace Report conducted at the think tank’s Washington offices.
