Earl H. Kinmonth This year is the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration. In a narrow sense the Meiji Restoration meant restoring...
Robert Sutter I have long had a moderate outlook on China’s rise, a view that did not fundamentally change despite widely-publicized challenges...
FRIENDSHIP IN PEANUTS, the final exhibition at the Snoopy Museum Tokyo, will run through September 24. The museum, which opened in 2016 to showcase...
After winning the Palme d’Or—the highest prize awarded—at the 71st Cannes Film Festival in France for his movie Manbiki Kazoku (Shoplifters), Japanese film director...
After weeks of speculation as to where United States President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un might meet, Trump put all rumors...
For years Japan has been sounding the alarm about Chinese aggression in the western Pacific and the South and East China Sea. Chinese-flagged vessels...
Former United States President Barrack Obama referred to himself as “America’s first Pacific president.” At the same time, China has made its own more tangible...
America’s eight-year military intervention came to a rather ignominious end as the last United States combat forces withdrew from South Vietnam on March 29, 1973....
China’s leaders sent two clear messages from this month’s National People’s Congress in Beijing. The first was that President Xi Jinping is centralizing power based on...
The latest China Security Report published by Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) in February aims to analyze China’s military and security affairs from a...
A famous cherry blossom at Yoshino-yama in 2017 Despite a rare snowfall in Tokyo in late January, weather forecasts have begun for Japan’s cherry blossom...
As a foreign correspondent for most of the several decades of my journalism career, following trends in the Japan-United States-China trilateral relationship has been...