Ever since the Trump administration came to power, it has tried to concentrate on what the president terms as his “America First” strategy. One of the first...
Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, convened a press conference following the close of the National People’s Congress held...
King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud, the leader of the royal household of Saudi Arabia, will arrive for a four-day visit to Japan on March 12....
RIMPAC is a U.S. Navy-organized series of biennial exercises with foreign navies in the Pacific area begun in 1971 as an economically efficient way to maximize...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s summit and golf outing with Donald Trump on February 10 and 11 could not have realistically gone much better. Expectations were admittedly...
For the past 70 years, the only strand of diplomacy and foreign relations that has really, really mattered for Japanese governments has been the management and...
“The public is even more fond of entertainment than of information.” – William Randolph Hearst Back in the halcyon days of mid-October when everyone on...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has wasted no time in trying to ingratiate himself to President Donald Trump. He should think long and hard about continuing to...
The Trump Era is now officially underway. Eight years ago, as many as 1.8 million supporters descended on Washington, DC, shouting “Yes, we can!” in...
Pete Hoekstra is a former congressman who served as chair of the House Committee on Intelligence from 2004-2007 and now serves as an informal adviser to...
Given the pressing issues facing East Asia, it can be baffling to outside observers just how much time and political capital is spent on history. Disputes...
To say that 2016 was a busy year would be an understatement. At home in Japan, there was the G7 Summit held in Mie Prefecture, elections...