“The region’s environmental issues have become security issues,” says concerned Iwakuni City Council member Takashi Ishimoto.
“My people and the international community…are being deceived by such malicious propaganda.” — Kim Byungheon, advocate against comfort women fraud.
Sri Lanka is strategically located at the crossroads of major shipping routes important to India and Japan and urgently needs help resolving its debt crisis.
Shinzo Abe’s quest for “normality” continues — in foreign policy, cultural pride, and possession of similar intelligence resources to other large democracies.
Their announcement of R&D cooperation on a Japan-based 2-nanometer semiconductor facility shows both parties’ strengths can help leading-edge supply chains.
Russia and China have made Africa deeply dependent on them through massive debt, arms supplies, and food security over the decades.
Gone from the latest version of the white paper is China’s promise not to send military forces and administrators to the island after unification.
Traditionally wary of China, the role of Russia ー a close military partner of India but at the same time, increasingly close to China ー remains...
Where is Prime Minister Kishida’s sense of urgency? All celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the normalization of ties with Beijing should be canceled.
Prime Minister Kishida must now address China’s belligerence, constitutional reform, and other priorities that affect the whole nation.
The war games simulation in Tokyo used scenarios “so timely as to be frightening,” and well within the range of possibilities.
China’s actions threaten to create a Taiwan crisis, which would be a Japan crisis, and could quickly create the danger of war in East Asia.