“There’s a tendency to underestimate North Korea’s capabilities for political reasons,” Jenny Town, a leading researcher from John Hopkins University in Washington DC, said...
East Asia is in the midst of tremendous geopolitical changes. Japanese politicians have preferred to play it safe, frustrating Japanese conservatives who see the...
United Nations Office at Geneva David Kaye In April of 2016, United Nations Special Rapporteur David Kaye visited Japan to study the state of...
In the aftermath of the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement, the global nuclear energy sector has had the busiest year in almost three decades. Sixty reactors...
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The “overseas Chinese” community, which exercises great influence in Japan’s economic world, is about to suffer a great split. Taiwanese residents and immigrants, long...
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...
Japanese business has been flourishing in Africa. More than 400 Japanese companies have offices on the continent. Their activities range from power generation to sourcing octopuses...
The Trump administration in April launched a missile attack on a Syrian air base, apparently as punishment for the Assad regime’s supposed use of chemical...
On May 14, North Korea launched a ballistic missile, which flew around 800 km before landing in the Sea of Japan. The launch comes just...
These days, the word "bonsai" is getting more and more popular among foreigners. Recently there was "The 8th World Bonsai Convention" in Saitama City, and so...
It must be difficult to be the president of South Korea. That is what I thought while watching the news of former South Korean President...