In the aftermath of the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement, the global nuclear energy sector has had the busiest year in almost three decades. Sixty reactors...
On May 3, as Japan celebrated Constitution Day or Kenpō Kinenbi, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe outlined his plans to revise its post-war pacifist Constitution, which...
“The Greatest Alchemist.” That was how Marco Polo described First Emperor Kublai Khan in his Travels of Marco Polo during his 13th Century visit...
James E. Auer (Emeritus Professor of Vanderbilt University) (Part 6 of 7) I started this series as an attempt to debunk seven myths about Japan’s...
The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson leads the Japan's Atago-class guided-missile destroyer JS Ashigara (L) followed by the Murasame-class destroyer JS Samidare April 26, 2017 ...
China has been aggressively pursuing territorial expansion in the South China Sea, building military bases and repeatedly entering Japan’s territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands (Ishigaki...
As the new United States administration prepares for its’ first Heads of State summit with China it will be very important for America’s close allies in...
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...
Lobsang Sangay, prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, being interviewed by the Sankei Shimbun (Photo Yoshikazu Hiroike) The Tibetan government-in-exile is based in Dharamsala...
As regional conflicts continue to escalate in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and East Asia, investments in military and security budgets around the world are growing....
In a stunning development last week, Toshiba was forced to abandon an earnings disclosure due to difficulties in accounting for a U.S. acquisition made in 2015...
Main image courtesy of Fuji TV On the evening of Sunday, February 19, the Fuji TV program “Mr. Sunday” broadcasted images captured on a security...