After years of challenges, here are some suggestions for the Camp David Summit to lock in across-the-board benefits of better Japan-US-South Korean cooperation.
Bilateral relations are better, but the comfort women issue remains divisive within and between Japan and South Korea. Allowing open debate is the way forward.
While American elites grandstand about the comfort women, free and open academic inquiry on East Asian history elsewhere is uncovering the uncomfortable truths.
The facts of the comfort women history are sometimes uncomfortable, which makes the issue all the more deserving of free and open academic inquiry.
Beyond Hiroshima, the harsh reality is, there will be no way to deter a nuclear attack upon Japan unless we or our allies possess such weapons.
Megumi Yokota and other North Korean abductees are still believed to be alive and their surviving parents urgently hope a resolution will bring them home.
Vladimir Putin sent the Russian navy on patrol with Chinese warships near Hokkaido and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has heaped praise upon Kim Jong Un.
A press release issued ahead of this year's event emphasized that "India and Mongolia have a shared commitment to regional security and cooperation."
A severe food shortage in North Korea threatens to turn into another "Arduous March," a period of mass starvation in the 1990s that claimed millions of...
South Korea and Japan are working together on North Korea with the US, and that's progress. But incentives are needed to keep old issues from interfering.
Repeated missile and other provocations by North Korea were discussed in the July 20 trilateral in Karuizawa and on the agenda for the leaders' August summit.
Few historical subjects have encountered such resistance to academic inquiry and free speech as the comfort women issue. As we report, that is finally changing.