In recent months, there has been an alarming influx of Chinese fishing boats illegally intruding into Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and plundering Japan’s marine...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in March 2018 had famously dismissed the Quad and the Indo-Pacific concept as a “headline-grabbing idea” that would “dissipate...
Above: Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on October 16, 2020, in an exclusive interview with The Sankei Shimbun and JAPAN Forward Bookmark is a JAPAN...
The signing of a military logistics pact by Japan and India could well mark the icing on the cake of the Shinzo Abe-era in Japan-India...
China has warned Japan that many Chinese fishing boats will enter Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands (Ishigaki City, Okinawa Prefecture), and that...
The recent Sino-Indian clashes in the Naku La sector of Sikkim and along the Pangong Lake in eastern Ladakh have once again brought to light...
(Second of Two Parts) Part 1: Common Concerns, Common Mission: Japan, U.S. Defend Western Pacific vs China Aggression The White Paper Defense of...
A couple of potential crises have been evolving in the Western Pacific region simultaneously since early 2018. These emerging jeopardies pose urgent threats to the...
On Thursday, February 28, in Taipei, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen had to hurry back to her office for an interview with The Sankei Shimbun...
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has asked for direct talks with the Japanese government on cooperation in the areas of cybersecurity and other national security...
I was assigned to a United States Navy destroyer homeported in Yokosuka, Japan, in 1966. It was in the midst of the Cold War. ...
The South Korean government should waste no time in honestly admitting its error and offering an apology to Japan for the South Korean Navy’s behavior...