The U.S.-Japan alliance is undergoing one of its tensest moments in recent years. If the alliance is to maintain its role as the cornerstone of peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region, Washington and Tokyo will have to prove they can work together.

This volume explores when and how technology-based school redesign leads to improved teaching and learning, when it does not, and what this means in terms of dramatically improving the American high school.

The key to pushing the U.S.-Japanese alliance forward isto learn the right lessons from Japan’s participation in the global war on terror and to implement the agreements reached this year.

The United States needs to look for ways to maximize its influence in the Asia-Pacific region through region-wide forums and institutional arrangements, especially given the rise of a still-autocratic China.

Can the economic system of the Democractic People's Republic of Korea be successfully reformed?