At the outset of an annual session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) on March 5, China’s dummy legislature controlled by the Communist Party, Premier...
The long duration of Japan’s pacifism in the face of increasing belligerence from China is not only an effect of near-sighted historical memory...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced bilateral relations with China are “shifting from competition to collaboration” during his recent talks with Chinese President Xi...
By Monika Chansoria Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a pitch for normalizing the Sino-Japanese relationship during an interview with The Sankei Shimbun in...
The Japanese government lodged a protest with China after a Sankei Shimbun reporter was barred from covering the initial phase of a meeting in...
By Akio Yaita Two Japanese citizens were arrested in China for alleged espionage in 2015. In July 2018, courts in China’s Liaoning...
Akio Yaita “Things are becoming somewhat similar to 40 years ago, before the downfall of Hua Guofeng,” a veteran member of the...
I had a déjà vu recently while reading a Reuters report from Tokyo regarding current issues relevant to North Korea. The article quoted Taku...
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....
Beginning with the Japan-United States Summit on April 17, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is about to embark on a series of summit meetings. The...
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...
Military expansion is on the rise in China amid Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power in a personal dictatorship. Not a few quarters are concerned about...