Please join the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security on Friday, November 13, 2015 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. for a public launch of the report on “Japan’s Security Role and Capabilities in the 2020s,” authored by Dr. Roger Cliff, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Scowcroft Center. Besides providing their comments on the report, experts will discuss the current Japanese political context regarding Japan’s defense role, US views about this role, and the future of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces, among other topics.