Given the pressing issues facing East Asia, it can be baffling to outside observers just how much time and political capital is spent on history. Disputes...
In the beginning of the marathon race that is the U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump looked like froth on the water. But his radical choice of...
President-elect Donald Trump sharply broke with past practice in December 2016 by accepting a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen. He publicly questioned U.S....
The Philippines was chosen as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s first foreign destination this year. This was already the third time in six months that the Prime...
On January 6th, the administration temporarily recalled Yasamusa Nagamine, its ambassador to South Korea, in response to the installation of a comfort woman statue in front...
When Tomomi Inada was appointed as Minister of Defence in last summer’s Cabinet reshuffle, it raised eyebrows across the political spectrum. A protégé of Shinzo Abe...
Last week, the Abe administration announced its response to the installation of a “comfort woman” statue in front of the Japanese Consulate General in Busan, Korea...
Late on the evening of December 13, I received word from a highly reliable source that an MV-22 Osprey, later identified as belonging to the medium...
Earlier this week, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe touched down in Honolulu to conduct his final meeting with US President Barack Obama on the incumbent’s home...
U.S. President Barack Obama's speech after Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's address at Pearl Harbor; Prime Minister Abe, on behalf of the American people, thank...
The Power of Reconciliation Address by Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan December 27, 2016, Pearl Harbor President Obama, Commander Harris, ladies and gentlemen, and...
On December 8th, 1941, the day after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his famous address to a joint session of Congress,...