On May 3, as Japan celebrated Constitution Day or Kenpō Kinenbi, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe outlined his plans to revise its post-war pacifist Constitution, which...
James E. Auer (Emeritus Professor of Vanderbilt University) (Part 5 of 7) I started this series as an attempt to debunk seven myths about...
The front page of the Sankei Shimbun morning edition on April 26, 2013. The newspaper announces the draft of "National Constitution of Japan". The...
The Japan's Diet was open to public on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 as Japan marks the 70th anniversary of the coming into force of its post-war Constitution . (Photo by...
Japan’s post-war Constitution On Wednesday, May 3, Japan observes the 70th anniversary of the coming into force of Japan’s post-war Constitution. At the center of...
(Part 4 of 7) I started this series as an attempt to debunk seven myths about Japan’s national security policy. Living in a democracy, and in...
U.S. President Donald Trump appears on stage at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. April 29, 2017. REUTERS Dan Schneider, executive director of the the...
The Dalai Lama recently concluded his 9-day visit to India’s border state of Arunachal Pradesh, amidst much brouhaha, both inside and outside the country. While the...
China has been aggressively pursuing territorial expansion in the South China Sea, building military bases and repeatedly entering Japan’s territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands (Ishigaki...
In Saipan, a commonwealth of the United States, there is a bronze statue of a Japanese man that has been there since before the war. The...
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...
Why did Korean fathers abandon their daughters without a fight? (Statue in Seoul, photo cr. Michael Yon.) Trouble is unfolding. Few people, outside Japan...