As the world battles the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, it seems to have brought out a new kind of assertiveness on the part of...
In 2019, the Japanese government announced that it would invite Chinese President Xi Jinping to Japan for an official state visit. It was a...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to a...
Amid fears sparked by the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, the Shinzo Abe administration has called on industry to pull out of China. But his...
The clashes between Indian and Chinese troops at the Galwan Valley in Ladakh along the LAC (Line of Actual Control) on the night of June...
A little more than a week after the so-called “Hagerty Incident” — where presidential press secretary James C. Hagerty was mobbed at Haneda Airport...
(Cover map courtesy of: Press Trust of India, cited in https://kashmirobserver.) The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has trespassed inside the Indian-perceived Line of...
The recent clashes along the Sino-Indian border point to a new era in the ties between India and China. While the two nations had...
China yet again has intruded inside the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in India’s Ladakh sector. It has placed about 5,000 soldiers and armored vehicles...
On February 26, the New York Times (NYT) published an opinion piece by Koichi Nakano, identified only as “professor of political science at...
As questions hound the Chinese leadership at home and abroad over the origin, outbreak, and failure to contain the virus, Xi Jinping’s foremost challenge...
In the winter of 2002–2003, the deadly SARS coronavirus exploded out of China’s “wet-blood” wildlife markets. SARS infected over 8,000 people worldwide and killed almost 800....