By: Akio Yaita “We do not want a new version of colonialism.” These were the words abruptly spoken by Malaysian Prime Minister...
(Part 2 of 5) Part 1: China’s Confucius Institute Takes A Hit with Shutdown Decision in U.S. Universities The Kyoto Museum for...
By Duncan Bartlett for Japan Forward Donald Trump’s noisy and confrontational approach towards politics provokes condemnation in much of the international media. ...
Grant Newsham It seems like every few months an article appears in the Western press claiming Japan-China relations are thawing. Read enough...
The Sankei Shimbun and JAPAN Forward reporter Mizuki Okada interviewed a veteran lawmaker of the House of Representatives and opposition party member Shu Watanabe...
Seoul has bowed to intimidation by Trump while China is plagued by the Trump trade offensive It is overly naive to consider that...
For years Japan has been sounding the alarm about Chinese aggression in the western Pacific and the South and East China Sea. Chinese-flagged vessels...
The Japanese media’s incessant focus on the links between civil servants and Shinzo Abe takes away attention from far more important issues facing the Prime Minister....
Great power games are in full swing in Northeast Asia, as exhibited by the sudden and steep increase of intense geopolitical activity surrounding North Korea....
Tracking the debate over China policy in Washington shows remarkable hardening over the past two years. There are now routine calls for a United States...
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...
The latest China Security Report published by Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) in February aims to analyze China’s military and security affairs from a...