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, by KUMAKURA Yuka
China, disasters key at ASEAN-Japan summit
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will discuss mid- and long-term strategies to strengthen their ties during summit talks to be held Friday through Sunday in Tokyo.
During the weekend gathering, (...)
, by YAMAMOTO Daisuke
Despite six months of active foreign diplomacy, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe faces an uncertain path to improving ties with China and South Korea as territorial disputes and disagreements on wartime history continue.
Whether Abe and his top Cabinet ministers opt to visit war-linked Yasukuni (...)
, by GUIMARAES Conrad
Just four months after assuming office, Yoshihiko Noda made a state visit to China on 25–26 December 2011.
The visit came in the wake of negotiations for a three-way FTA between the two countries and South Korea, which could represent the culmination of almost 40 years of normalised relations (...)
, by Crowell Todd
When an alliance is not an alliance, a change of government throws up interesting possibilities
There has been considerable handwringing in the western press, especially among Americans, over the future of the U.S.-Japan military alliance under the new regime. Will Japan’s new masters seek to (...)
, by Crowell Todd
Why Japan Obsesses over North Korean Kidnappings
It has been more than 30 years since Megumi Yokota, a 13-year-old junior high school girl, was snatched by North Korean agents as she was walking home from school in the west coast Japanese city of Niigata and spirited away. Yet for many (...)
, by SEEKINS Donald M
Japan’s historical influence over Burma has waned since the days it helped Aung San in his independence struggle.
The apparently deliberate shooting of Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai at the height of the September demonstrations in Rangoon angered people in his homeland and prompted the Tokyo (...)
, by MUTO Ichiyo
The Riddle: Patriotic Traitors
It is hard to believe that it happened but it did. In an 18-month working process begun in February 2005 and completed in June 2006, Japan willingly surrendered command over its military forces to the United States, committing itself unconditionally to the (...)
, by GUNN Geoffrey C.
The late January visit to Tokyo by Indonesian Vice President Muhammad Jusuf Kalla was full of surprises, just as the two nations announced their expectations that a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) would be signed before the end of 2006.
The last few years have witnessed a wave of bilateral Free (...)
, by CHENG Eva
As Washington’s scaremongering about the “threat” posed to the Western world by China’s economy has been broadened to include painting Beijing as a military threat, Japan is emerging as one of the US’s regional bullies.
During the last few years, the administration led by US President George Bush (...)
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