TY - BOOK AU - YUKIO Okamoto TI - Japan and the United States: the essential alliance PY - 2003/// KW - JAPAN KW - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS KW - UNITED STATES KW - SECURITY ALLIANCE N1 - Entered on 07/APR/2003 N2 - Partly because of the bitter dissatisfaction that the US displayed with 'checkbook diplomacy' after the Gulf War, Japan has taken unprecedented steps in the war on terrorism. Still, Tokyo needs a legal framework that will make the measures permanent ER -