Economy
Is the Arrest of Nissan’s Carlos Ghosn A Case of Japanese Xenophobia?
Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn being frog-marched from his private jet to the Tokyo Detention Center — Japan’s […]
Author Archives for Grant Newsham
Grant Newsham is a senior research fellow at the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies and a retired United States Marine Officer. He was the first US Marine liaison officer to the Japan Ground Self Defense force and was instrumental in promoting the JSDF’s initial moves towards an amphibious capability.
Diplomacy & Security
The British Have (Almost) Landed, and Japan Is Taking A Closer Look
By Grant Newsham When Japan takes a step forward defense-wise it often goes unnoticed. On […]
Diplomacy & Security
Japan, China Headed for Showdown ‘Down South’
Grant Newsham It seems like every few months an article appears in the Western press claiming […]
Politics
Let Japan’s Self-Defense Forces Take Some Risk
Some controversies could only be controversies in Japan. The “rediscovery” of supposedly lost logs of the Ground Self-Defense […]
Diplomacy & Security
Japan Activates Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade: What Now?
Japan’s new Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB) stood up on March 27, with a ceremony taking place April 7 […]
Special Reports
Tohoku in My Memory: Recollections on Operation Tomodachi
It’s seven years since the 3/11 Great Eastern Japan earthquake and tsunami that killed over 18,000 people. It […]
Diplomacy & Security
It’s Time to Ask the Question: Why Should the U.S. Defend Japan?
President Donal Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and Defense Secretary James Mattis have all visited Tokyo to reassure Japan […]
Diplomacy & Security
Shinzo Abe’s Japan: A Threat to Nobody
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gets called a “fascist” almost as often as does Donald Trump. Abe’s critics appear […]