Japan, China, South Korea, and other nations including the ASEAN member states signed a major trade deal – the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) –...
China is in an “arms race” and has deployed a large number of ballistic and cruise missiles, the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Arms Control...
The role and organization of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) has often been regarded as problematic. Finally, on October 9, the Japanese government...
(Updated October 16, 2020) The Asahi Shimbun newspaper and other Japanese media have criticized the Suga administration’s refusal to appoint six of 105 candidates recommended...
While expanding its hegemony under the slogan of the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” China has repeatedly carried out joint naval and air force...
Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui, who died on July 30, was known as the “Father of Democracy in Taiwan” and an avowed friend of Japan. Hundreds...
On June 22, the Ishigaki Municipal Assembly approved a resolution renaming an area it administers that includes the Senkaku Islands. The assembly made the...
Even as nations around the world are struggling to respond to the challenge of the novel coronavirus pandemic, China has been making provocative moves...
While previously firing warning shots in the air, the Hong Kong police shot a teenage protester at close range on Tuesday, October 1....
Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan announced the United States’ Indo-Pacific Strategy at the 2019 Asia Security Summit in Singapore, known as the Shangri-La Dialogue,...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced bilateral relations with China are “shifting from competition to collaboration” during his recent talks with Chinese President Xi...
The Japanese media’s incessant focus on the links between civil servants and Shinzo Abe takes away attention from far more important issues facing the Prime Minister....
