Special Reports
‘Comfort Women’ Statues? Build Them for All, Not Just Some, Victims of Wartime Sexual Violence
Earl H. Kinmonth At 10 A.M. on the morning of May 14, a Buddhist memorial service presided […]
Diplomacy & Security
Did Trump Really Raise the Abduction Issue with Kim Jong-un?
JAPAN Forward Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday, June 12, expressed his thanks to United States […]
Diplomacy & Security
Book Review: The Coming North Korea Nuclear Nightmare?
With few exceptions, leaders of countries are career politicians. They get to their country’s top spot by learning […]
Diplomacy & Security
Trusting Kim and Trump is Like Believing the Impossible
Duncan Bartlett In the classic British children’s story Alice Through The Looking Glass, the Red Queen tells […]
Politics
It’s Incorrect to Say Japan Has Been Sidelined in Korean Peninsula Issues
I had a déjà vu recently while reading a Reuters report from Tokyo regarding current issues relevant to […]
Diplomacy & Security
The Real Intent of Chinese and South Korean Leaders’ Latest Visits to Tokyo
Seoul has bowed to intimidation by Trump while China is plagued by the Trump trade offensive It […]
Special Reports
Former Abduction Issue Minister Eriko Yamatani: ‘This Time, The Feeling is Completely Different’
This past year has been the second most momentous in the long history of the abductions of Japanese […]
Diplomacy & Security
Japan Should Manage Expectations From U.S.-Korean Summit – Jeffrey Hornung
(Second of three parts) Part 1: North Korea, U.S. should first agree on what ‘denuclearization’ means — security […]
Diplomacy & Security
North Korea, U.S. should first agree on what ‘denuclearization’ means — security specialist
(First of three parts) Dr. Jeffrey Hornung, the RAND Corporation’s specialist on Japanese and East Asian security […]
Diplomacy & Security
Panmumjom Declaration Represents Deception and Betrayal
“The two leaders solemnly declared before the 80 million Korean people and the whole world that there will […]
Diplomacy & Security
Unless Concrete Steps Are Taken, North Korea’s Denuclearization Statement is Mere Rhetoric
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean Workers’ Party Chairman Kim Jong-un held talks on April 27 at […]
Politics
Media’s Myopic View Obscures Big Picture in Sino-Japanese Relations
The Japanese media’s incessant focus on the links between civil servants and Shinzo Abe takes away attention from far […]