Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.comTobias Harris, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and author of The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan, joins The Realignment to discuss the assassination of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, how and why he sought to orient Japan away from its post-WWII pacifism, what the "new" Japan looks like, and how the U.S, Japan, and other allies should approach the growing threat of conflict in the Asia-Pacific.