Kim Jong-nam lost the struggle for ascendancy to the dictatorship of North Korea to his younger half-brother, Kim Jong-un but he won the protection of China...
On the night of February 13, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government jet returned to Japan from the United States after a whirlwind visit of over 43...
Just as the leaders of Japan and the United States were meeting to reaffirm their alliance, North Korea launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile into the Sea...
South Korea is now on the eve of a revolution. When the constitutional court hands down its impeachment judgment against President Park Geun-hye at the end...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s summit and golf outing with Donald Trump on February 10 and 11 could not have realistically gone much better. Expectations were admittedly...
For the past 70 years, the only strand of diplomacy and foreign relations that has really, really mattered for Japanese governments has been the management and...
This will be Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s second meeting with President Donald J. Trump. Abe’s strategy is the correct one: he wants to build a familiarity...
The administration of US President Donald J. Trump is now upon us. My initial impressions are below: Don't assume Trump is acting alone First,...
Another meeting between a U.S. secretary of defense and Japanese minister of defense took place February 3 and 4, as a show of the closeness between...
Less than 6 months since her sweeping victory in the Tokyo gubernatorial election, Yuriko Koike has not only cemented her popularity with the capital’s residents with...
With the election of the Hong Kong Chief Executive (CE, equivalent to mayor) coming up in late March, the big question in the Special Administrative Region...
The Trump administration has been criticized for lacking a grand strategy. Instead of having a coherent long-term plan toward which all foreign policy will be oriented,...