A leading Washington think tank released in early August a report that draws a comprehensive picture of United States policy toward China in the first...
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In an interview with the Nikkei Asian Review, published on August 14, Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono emphasized the country’s long-standing interest in pursuing a...
The Xi Jinping-led dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party has begun to reenact in Hong Kong the Tiananmen Massacre of 1989, which crushed the fledgling...
China’s survey ship conducted activities in Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) near Okinotorishima, nearly 1,740 kilometers south of Tokyo, for more than a week in July...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented effect on every aspect of humanity in general, and the global healthcare system in particular. The world today...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to a...
This map is adapted from content courtesy of Dr. Rieko Hayakawa. In September 2019, two Pacific Island nations, the Solomon Islands and Kiribati, suddenly changed their diplomatic relations...
In recent talks on a new bilateral trade agreement, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and British Secretary of State for International Trade Liz Truss reportedly...
Tibetan Buddhism's Tawang Monastery in India (Author Vikramjit Kakati, C C License, Wikimedia Commons) China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has refused to de-escalate the...
As the world battles the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, it seems to have brought out a new kind of assertiveness on the part of...
On anniversaries of the defeat of Japan in the late 1980s, it was commonly quipped that the war was over and Germany and Japan had...