JFIR policy recommendations on the non-military foundations of the U.S.-Japan alliance

The Japan Forum on International Relations has released policy recommendations from its study group on deepening U.S.-Japan cooperation in non-military fields, chaired by Kazuhiro Maeshima (Sophia University). My chapter, Social Structure, Demographics, and the Sustainability of the Alliance, asks what it means for the alliance that Japan is the most aged major democracy and the United States is following the same path.