In Japan, JSDF Joint Operations Command (JJOC) is scheduled to be established at the end of FY 2024, and the U.S Senate Armed Services Committee recently passed the FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, which requires a plan for the establishment of joint force headquarters in Japan subordinate to U.S. INDOPACOM. Fumiaki Kubo is the president of the National Defense Academy of Japan and an emeritus professor in the graduate schools for law and politics at the University of Tokyo, where he taught for eighteen years. Prior to this role, he was a professor at the Department of Law of Keio University for fifteen years, a Japan Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2014, and the President of the Japanese Association for American Studies in 2016–2018.
Author: Fumiaki Kubo
Published at: 2024-06-26 22:35:01
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