Sending a deputy instead of Foreign Minister Hayashi to the G20 meeting weakens the initiative to halt Russia's aggression in Ukraine.
"We cannot just let China act as it wants," warns Japanese Diet member Keiji Furuya, leader of a cross-parliamentary human rights group in Tokyo.
In the new book "Can You Win Against China?" (Kimi Tachi, Chugoku Ni Katerunoka), four key national security figures sound an alarm about the China threat.
Finally, the ruling coalition recognizes that, with neighboring countries threatening Japan, acquiring counterstrike capability has long been overdue.
Understanding Kochikai founder and former PM Hayato Ikeda's economic growth framework offers hints to PM Fumio Kishida's economic and foreign policy strategy.
“In the face of crises you may encounter in the future, it will not be enough to merely look right and left and choose the middle...
Skillfully translated by Graham B Leonard, the author takes an historical journey into the regional vision of postwar Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira.
With just two more days to go, the election campaign was under even more scrutiny than usual due to the shooting of Shinzo Abe on July...
The LDP and Komeito water down, then shelve, the Diet resolution condemning China’s serious human rights violations. Shameful.
The LDP secured 261 seats on its own in the 465-member house, a comfortable margin over the 233 seat parliamentary majority benchmark, even without its primary...
Voters gave fewer seats to the Japan Communist Party, which wants to dissolve the imperial system, the Japan Self-Defense Forces, and the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty.
Narrowing the income gap is important, but the virtuous cycle of growth and distribution can be achieved only if a pie exists for distribution.
