This is the first time the government has issued a June timeline for further opening of Japan’s borders, with an entry process similar to other G7...
Does Japan have the will to transform into a normal country, like Germany has done almost instantaneously in the wake of the Ukraine crisis?
Whereas his predecessor visited China 12 times, Olaf Scholz says Germany and Japan share the same values and both abhor Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
There are 4.2 million Ukrainian refugees and Poland has taken in about 60%. Japan should welcome them too, as we would refugees from a contingency in...
It can halt energy imports related to the Sakhalin 1 crude oil extraction project and Sakhalin 2 natural gas development project.
Japan’s Prime Minister used crisis meetings with the US and its allies to decry the threat of use of weapons of mass destruction.
Japan is able to ship only non-lethal aid to Ukraine. It cannot have this legal limitation when an Indo-Pacific ally comes under attack.
By allowing Russian flights, “Won’t the message we end up sending be that [for Japan] making money is more important than saving lives?” ーMasahisa Sato
“Unilateral attempts to change the status quo by force or coercion are unacceptable, regardless of where they occur,” Japan’s representative told the UN General Assembly.
Western nations and Japan must stand shoulder to shoulder in implementing meaningful sanctions until Russia backs off.
Taking strict sanctions in the event Ukraine is invaded sends a signal to China that it must not disturb the status quo on Taiwan and the...
China continues to ignore international law in the South China Sea and militarize the artificial islands it has created there.