The second foreign ministers’ meet of the Australia-India-Japan-United States “Quad” is scheduled for Tuesday, October 6, in Tokyo, as announced by Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi...
United States President Donald Trump has tested positive for COVID-19, it emerged on October 2. He will stay in isolation at the Walter Reed Medical...
Japan confirmed a new prime minister in early September 2020 without having achieved any progress in bringing home Megumi Yokota and the other Japanese abducted...
A Quiet Hope The Japan-U.S. alliance is arguably the most important bilateral alliance in the world. It is also arguably the least well understood....
The signing of a military logistics pact by Japan and India could well mark the icing on the cake of the Shinzo Abe-era in Japan-India...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga delivered his first address to the U.N. General Assembly on September 26 (Japan time), in which he announced that Japan has...
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...
India received as a surprise and shock Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s announcement of his resignation, citing his deteriorating health, just weeks before a scheduled virtual...
Japan’s 2020 action plan for infrastructure-related exports was revealed in early July, and for the first time it identified Japan’s shipbuilding industries as 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...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to...
In the light of last month’s violent clashes between Indian and Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, New Delhi has been forced to...