(First of 4 Parts) In a wide-ranging interview, Dr. Edward Luttwak, historian and worldwide authority on strategic relations, spoke to Yoshinari Kurose, Washington...
Randall Shriver, United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, recently spoke to Yoshinari Kurose, Washington Bureau chief of...
With his reelection as Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) president for the third time on September 20 and his two-thirds ruling majority in both...
By Mizuki Okada The United Kingdom is strengthening its relations with Asian countries, including Japan, just as it is facing withdrawal from the European...
By Fumito Ishibashi Shinzo Abe secured a third three-year term of office in the latest leadership election of the ruling Liberal Democratic...
By Monika Chansoria Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a pitch for normalizing the Sino-Japanese relationship during an interview with The Sankei Shimbun in...
JAPAN Forward Death Toll Rose to 39 People Hokkaido Government announced on Sunday, September 9 that 39 people confirmed dead from...
By Takao Harakawa Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has declared his intention to introduce a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)-drafted bill for revising Japan's...
James E. Auer Must Futenma—the United States Marine Corps airfield in Okinawa—remain open even if the heliport addition near Henoko is finally...
The National Defense Academy of Japan, the institution which trains cadets to become future leaders of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces (SDF), was established in 1952,...
China’s leaders sent two clear messages from this month’s National People’s Congress in Beijing. The first was that President Xi Jinping is centralizing power based on...
In the sense that no war has occurred amongst major military powers from the time of the Cold War, the last 70-plus years arguably was a period...