Awakening Godzilla: Japan’s fading nuclear allergy and the perils of proliferation in the Indo-Pacific for AsiaLink

First published with AsiaLink, University of Melbourne September 28th, 2026 (https://asialink.unimelb.edu.au/diplomacy/insights/awakening-godzilla-japans-fading-nuclear-allergy/)

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September 29, 2026

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First published with AsiaLink, University of Melbourne September 28th, 2026 (https://asialink.unimelb.edu.au/diplomacy/insights/awakening-godzilla-japans-fading-nuclear-allergy/)

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Dr. Stephen R. Nagy is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the International Christian University in Tokyo, specializing in Indo-Pacific geopolitics and great power competition. With more than 100 academic and think tank publications including one monograph, two edited volumes, and one co-edited volume on Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific, he has established himself as a leading scholar and think tanker on China and the Indo-Pacific. He is a Senior Fellow and China Project Lead at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI), a Visiting Fellow at the Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA), and a Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He serves as Director of Policy Studies for the Yokosuka Council of Asia Pacific Studies (YCAPS), leading their Indo-Pacific Policy Dialogue Series. His newest book is Japan as a Middle Power State: Navigating Ideological and Systemic Divides, addresses themes central to middle power strategy in the region. He is also co-author, with Michael Rosenberg, of the forthcoming co-authored book How to Thrive in the New World Order — A Business Blueprint for an Age of Instability (2027), the co-editor for the edited volume Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific Construct (Nova Publications, 2024) with Dr. Indu Saxena, and a monograph on Chinese foreign policy called Asia for Asians or Asia for China? China’s Grand Strategy from Centrality to Authority (2027) which draws extensively on literature and primary sources in Chinese, Japanese, French and English.

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