At the recent summit meeting in Washington, PM Suga and President Biden addressed national security concerns in communications technology aimed at keeping China in check.
Has Japan learned the obvious? “Never put a nation’s industrial base at the mercy of an increasingly arrogant and hostile potential enemy like China.” --Larry Wortzel
As the Philippines rethinks its relationship with China, Japan’s JSDF are poised to help them beef up cooperation to ward off China while contributing to the...
Japan and other allies have a stake in continuing their humanitarian and recovery aid to war-torn Afghanistan and cannot leave its mineral riches to the plundering...
Japan pays ¥17 trillion JPY to foreign countries for coal, oil and gas. Moving to renewable energy would reduce this burden and allow Japan to focus...
Should the governments of both sides step in to break the impasse between private companies over the Taiwan High Speed Railway contract?
In another issue polled, the government gets firm public support for stronger action on China’s human rights violations.
Japan’s carbon dioxide emissions account for less than 4% of the world’s total. In contrast, China and the U.S. together emit more than 40% of the...
If it were to become clear to everyone that there is no evidence of “forceful taking away,” going forward we might be able to face history...
"There is great apprehension that if we don’t [act now], the increase in infections happening in the large cities could increase around the whole country", said...
Toshiba is a key contributor to Japan’s economic and strategic security. The company needs to tread carefully as it considers the outside buyout offer and seeks...
Following this court decision and the “final and irreversible agreement” between Japan and South Korea in 2015, this issue is now one for South Korea to...