Year: 2017

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New Images Show Attack that Killed Kim Jong-nam Took Only Two Seconds

Hideki Yoshimura, Sankei Shimbun February 20, 2017

Main image courtesy of Fuji TV On the evening of Sunday, February 19,...

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Editorial: The Assassination of Kim Jong-nam

Editorial Board, The Sankei Shimbun February 17, 2017

Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of Workers’ Party of Korea chairman and dictator Kim Jong-un, has...

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Did China Abandon Kim Jong-nam?

Akio Yaita, Sankei Shimbun February 17, 2017

Kim Jong-nam lost the struggle for ascendancy to the dictatorship of North Korea to...

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Seikado Bunko Art Museum Exhibition: Perfect Guide to the Japanese Sword

Paul Martin February 16, 2017

The Seikado Bunko Art Museum is holding a special exhibition aimed at introducing Japanese...

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43 Hours on the Road with Trump and Abe

Makiko Takita, Sankei Shimbun February 16, 2017

On the night of February 13, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government jet returned to...

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Editorial: North Korea's Missile Launch and its Test for Regional Cooperation

Editorial Board, The Sankei Shimbun February 15, 2017

Just as the leaders of Japan and the United States were meeting to reaffirm...

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How Fake News Can Topple a President

Tsutomu Nishioka February 14, 2017

South Korea is now on the eve of a revolution. When the constitutional court...

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Abe and Trump: A Good Start, but a Long Road Ahead

Paul Nadeau February 13, 2017

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s summit and golf outing with Donald Trump on February 10...

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Building a Relationship with Trump is Abe’s Only Strategic Option

Rob Fahey, Waseda University February 10, 2017

For the past 70 years, the only strand of diplomacy and foreign relations that...

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Speak Loudly and Carry a Big Stick: Trump's Asia Diplomacy and its Test for Japan

Takashi Kawakami, Institute of World Studies, Takushoku University February 9, 2017

This will be Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s second meeting with President Donald J. Trump....

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Opinion: Don't Panic - Three Rules for Dealing with Trump

Jun Sakurada, Toyo-Gakuen University February 8, 2017

The administration of US President Donald J. Trump is now upon us. My initial...

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Mattis, Inada, and Another Missed Opportunity

Robert D Eldridge, PhD February 6, 2017

Another meeting between a U.S. secretary of defense and Japanese minister of defense took...