The National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), in its latest East Asian Strategic Report on the security environment surrounding Japan, found that the People’s Republic of...
Tokyo’s newest train station, the Takanawa Gateway Station, will open on Saturday, March 14, promising to showcase an abundance of futuristic technology. Sited on...
Many around the world were shocked at the fire at Shuri Castle in Okinawa on the morning of October 31 and are at a loss...
Efforts to solve the North Korea nuclear and abduction issues are at a standstill. One reason for this impasse is that China is using a...
Kim Jong Un: It's Time to Change – Let's Resolve the Abductions and Move Forward to a Bright Future Feature Story by JAPAN Forward The new...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe recently vowed to “unconditionally” meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, breaking from reiteration of his earlier rhetoric that...
Former United States Ambassador to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Curtis S. Chin, now an Asia fellow for the Milken Institute, granted an exclusive interview to...
Japan can buy all the F35’s and Aegis Ashore missile defense systems it wants. It can even cobble together an “aircraft carrier” or two. And...
On Thursday, February 28, in Taipei, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen had to hurry back to her office for an interview with The Sankei Shimbun...
The China-in-Africa story is intriguing for its complex dubiety. Surging domestic growth goaded China’s rising demand for avenues with natural resources. In that...
Randall Shriver, United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, recently spoke to Yoshinari Kurose, Washington Bureau chief of...
By Mizuki Okada The diplomatic contest over Myanmar is heating up, with Japan, Western countries, and China all vying for a role in...