The following is a bibliographical list of articles written by Dr. William H. Overholt. Scroll down to view the complete list:

2010 - present      

• "In countering China, the US must not lose its knack for nuanced diplomacy", South China Morning Post, August 7, 2014.
• "William Overholt: Policymakers Need to Realize the Clock is Ticking" Nikkei Asian Review, November 27, 2014.
• "William Overholt: The four arrows of Abenomics," Nikkei Asian Review, September 24, 2014.
• "Japan: Don't Waste the Crisis," PacNet 18A, March 25, 2011. [pdf]
• "Japan's Inexorable Decay," The International Economy, Fall 2010, pp. 26-29.
• "Korea and Japan: Decisive Political Turns," 2010 (This is the original text of an article that was abridged and published in the South China Morning Post (SCMP) on June 7, 2010. [pdf]

2000 - 2009

• "Asia's Big Powers: Japan and China" Asia, America and the Transformation of Asian Geopolitics (New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 2008), Chapter 4.
• "U.S. Scholars' Declaration on Japanese Reform," Toyo Keizai November 8, 2002. As noted in the article itself, this was written by William H. Overholt and signed by a group of distinguished scholars (Martin Feldstein, Richard Cooper, Ezra Vogel, Hug Patrick, Michael Yoshino, Jon Mills).
• "Japan's Economy: At War With itself," Foreign Affairs, January-February 2002. Reprinted in Foreign Affairs Anthology, Japan, Spring 2002, and in Ronza (a Japanese magazine of contemporary affairs), February 2002.
• "The Japanese Dilemma," paper for China Development Institute Think Tank Conference, Shenzhen, China, November 17, 2002.
• "Koizumi As Prime Minister?", Nomura, 23 April 2001.
• "Koizumi: Busting the System?", Nomura, 10 May 2001.

1980s

• "Japan's Economy at a Turning Point," PAG 283/1-D (June 25, 1986).
• "Japan as a Global Capital Manager and the U.S. as a Mercantilist Economy," presentation to Young Presidents Organization, Regent Hotel, Sydney, Australia, November 21, 1986.
• "Japan" PAG 226/1-D (February 13, 1985).
• "Japan Post-Election Assessment," PAG 185/1-D (January 23, 1984). [pdf]
• "Recent Political Developments in Japan," PAG 159/1-D (June 6, 1983). [pdf]
• "Japan's Response to International Financial Crisis," PAG 152/1-D (April 7, 1983).
• "Recent Political Developments in Japan," PAG 137/1-D (January 26, 1983).

1970s

• "Japanese Perceptions of U.S. Energy Policy," HI-2895-D (August 1978).
• "Japan's Emerging World Role," HI-1946/6-D, Orbis XIX, 2 (Summer 1975). An earlier version was presented at the Army Strategic Studies Institute Annual Security Symposium, Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, March 1975.

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