(First of Two Parts) In recent years there have been growing concerns among nations in the Indo-Pacific region about the rise of...
The hubbub over school operators Moritomo Gakuen and Kake Educational Institution seems to be boiling down to nothing more than a witch hunt. The disputants...
United States President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on March 13. It is difficult to predict how the replacement of the chief...
China’s leaders sent two clear messages from this month’s National People’s Congress in Beijing. The first was that President Xi Jinping is centralizing power based on...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, shakes hands with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang in New Delhi, March 3, 2018. (AP) Vietnam, by...
When we hear the words trade war, we think of the 1980s when the Japan-United States trade friction was particularly intense. Japanese exports were...
The debate over constitutional revision within the Japanese government and the Liberal Democratic Party looks to begin in earnest. On March 7, the...
Toyota has pledged to increase its investment in the United Kingdom, despite concerns among Japanese businesses about the implications of Brexit. The announcement follows a meeting...
What do these people have in common? Citizens of three small villages in the eastern part of Nago City Military pilots based in Japan...
India’s Republic Day celebrations, earlier in January this year, were attended by the heads of state of all 10 ASEAN nations in an unmistakable sign...
Calls in the government and the media to participate in the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) expansionist economic project being promoted by Chinese President Xi...
It happened during the evening of February 9, on the ninth floor of the Yongpyong Resort Tower Condominium in PyeongChang, South Korea. Prime Minister Shinzo...