“Unilateral attempts to change the status quo by force or coercion are unacceptable, regardless of where they occur,” Japan’s representative told the UN General Assembly.
Beijing may reckon it has underestimated Western backbone, the difficulties of seizing Taiwan, cost as measured in lives, economic and reputational harm to China.
Japan is the nation that has been most faithful to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. But the credibility of the NPT is waning.
China’s goal is military dominance, and it’s making rules, institutions, and technology to disrupt the status quo and project its power into Japan’s islands in the...
Although separated by over 8000 km, Japan and the Nordic region share in common their interest in the Arctic and their security dynamics with Russia as...
The joint statement made the right noises about North Korea’s destabilizing missile launches, but the fact remains that the Quad does not possess any military muscle.
Kenji Fujii, research advisor for the Takeshima issue in Shimane Prefecture, presents fresh research showing the US rejected South Korea’s request under the San Francisco Treaty.
China is watching the crisis in Ukraine unfold, and if it becomes a full-blown conflict, an emboldened China may try land grabs of its own in...
It’s like predicting who will win the 2022 Super Bowl. If Beijing moves too fast on Taiwan, it could force the Americans into a fight that...
Although the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games faced 450 million cyberattacks and so on against their networks and systems, they were all blocked and no...
The deal is surely going to rile China, which will try to put pressure on the Philippines through other means.
Associate Professor Masatoshi Murakami discusses military expansionism, human rights concerns, and the epic clash of democracies facing off against authoritarianism through the boycott.