War Becoming Increasingly Likely Hours after the latest North Korean nuclear weapon detonation on September 3, 2017, I asked a well-connected friend for an...
The Radio representative Kazuhiro Araki (left) is talking to the microphone while Tatsuru Murao (right), executive director of COMJAN and program producer, is calling for support...
In July 1937, Amelia Earhart, American aviator lionized for her bravery, and navigator Frederick Noonan left New Guinea, then a territory of Australia, for the tiny United States-owned...
On August 3rd Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reorganized his Cabinet. After the investiture ceremony at the Imperial Palace, he launched his third restructured Cabinet. That...
At this month’s G20 summit in Germany, United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in person for the first time. They...
In November 2012, shortly after being anointed to the highest position in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and even before being named head of the...
Fred Warmbier, father of Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia undergraduate student who was imprisoned in North Korea in March 2016, speaks during a news...
The China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), with headquarters in Beijing, held its second annual general meeting on June 17. Speaking at a press conference...
Every year, a number of Japanese students graduate from Stanford University in California, where Daniel Okimoto, 74, teaches political science. They all go back home as...
This article—the 3rd in a 4-part series—has been updated from its original version in the March 2017 issue of Seiron Magazine. Part 1:...
James E. Auer (Emeritus Professor of Vanderbilt University) (Part 7 of 7) I started this series as an attempt to debunk seven myths about Japan’s...
This week, in the wake of increasingly shrill North Korean threats, Vice President Mike Pence is in East Asia, rallying the US-South Korea-Japan alliance around the...