James E. Auer Must Futenma—the United States Marine Corps airfield in Okinawa—remain open even if the heliport addition near Henoko is finally...
Masaru Sato United States President Donald Trump and North Korean Workers’ Party Chairman Kim Jong Un signed a joint statement on June 12...
(Last of Three Parts) Part 1: North Korea, U.S. should first agree on what ‘denuclearization’ means — security specialist Part 2: Japan Should Manage...
Japan-US Summit plays timely, effective role The latest summit meeting between Japan and the United States proceeded smoothly in the sunshine of...
Some controversies could only be controversies in Japan. The “rediscovery” of supposedly lost logs of the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) unit deployed to Iraq...
For years Japan has been sounding the alarm about Chinese aggression in the western Pacific and the South and East China Sea. Chinese-flagged vessels...
China's aircraft carrier Liaoning (C) takes part in a military drill of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy in the western Pacific Ocean, April 18, 2018....
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....
On April 20, the Sankei Shimbun and JAPAN Forward interviewed Edwin J. Feulner, PhD, about the recent summit meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and United...
The sixth meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and United States President Donald Trump—where they agreed on a policy of maintaining maximum pressure on North...
United States President Donald Trump has promised to take up the decades-old issue of the abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korean agents in his...
(Fourth of Five Parts) While Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in the United States for a summit with President Donald Trump, JAPAN Forward runs a series of...