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A Mature Japan Should Now Become a Partner in Pacific Defense By Ramon Myers and Tetsuya Kataoka, \o7 Tetsuya Kataoka is a senior research fellow and Ramon Myers is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. This commentary is excerpted from their new book "Defending an Economic Superpower--Reassessing the U.S.-Japan Security Alliance" (Westview Press). and \f7