A meeting of the G7 foreign ministers in Nagano condemned Russia and called on China to act as a responsible member of the international community.
Sending a deputy instead of Foreign Minister Hayashi to the G20 meeting weakens the initiative to halt Russia's aggression in Ukraine.
Now a major power in Asia, India has the potential to join with Japan in defense of basic shared values, including democracy and freedom.
The US Secretary of State met his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in Hawaii, urging “intense engagement” to build on common interests and heal past rifts.
China continues to ignore international law in the South China Sea and militarize the artificial islands it has created there.
The joyless faces and grim accounts of the meeting are not very encouraging. Fortunately, there was one important common ground: North Korea.
Foreign ministers from Japan, the United States, Australia, and India met in Tokyo on October 6, and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga held talks with the foreign...
