The Nakasone Yasuhiro Award is presented by the Nakasone Peace Institute, a policy-oriented research institute dedicated to advancing global peace.
As Middle East turmoil disrupts maritime commerce, Japan and India's security focus is expanding to the vital oil shipping routes through the Persian Gulf.
Talks In Busan were amicable. Still, their success will be measured by whether the foreign ministers of Japan, China, and South Korea can resolve sticky issues.
Consideration of post-Kishida options is called for as opinion polls show the Kishida administration's approval falling into dangerous territory.
North Korea covets satellite technology to monitor US and other military movements and possibly to facilitate nuclear and non-nuclear missile attacks.
Diplomacy has resolved none of the major issues with China. Japan needs its own counterespionage law and other measures if it wants to see results.
China did little on its BRI pledges to Manila but the immediate provocation was its aggressive attacks near the Second Thomas Shoal in the Philippines EEZ.
Denny Tamaki acknowledged the buoy found northwest of one of the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa, an area where China has aggressively pursued maritime control.
"The two-state solution, including the creation of a Palestinian state to live in peace with Israel, is the only way forward" — EU HRVP Josep Borrell
Seventeen Japanese citizens have been detained in China since its vague counterespionage law took effect. The Japanese government's response has been feeble.
The US imagined it would never face a serious enemy again. But trouble in global hotspots calls for a reassessment and for other free nations to...
All eyes are on what impact the dismissal of Li Shangfu and others in the upper ranks of Chinese officialdom will have on the Xi regime's...