Japan’s Right Seeks to Leverage Islands Dispute With China Into a Nuclear-Arms Program
Some among Japan’s ruling elite seek to rid the country of its “nuclear allergy.”
Agent Orange on Okinawa: The Smoking Gun
A recently discovered U.S. army report puts lie to the Pentagon’s denials that it exposed soldiers and civilians to Agent Orange on Okinawa.
Japan v. China: Smoke or Fire?
Thanks in part to U.S. announcement of deployment of an ABM system in Japan, the smoldering between Japan and China could burst into open flames.
Japan’s Katrina Moment
In the cargo-container communities of Japan’s disaster areas, one finds echoes of post-Katrina New Orleans.
The Term “Nuclear Security” Is a Modern-Day Koan to the Japanese
Does it mean protecting nuclear plants or using nuclear weapons for national security?
South Korea: Stuck in the 20th Century?
South Korea is cutting-edge in so many ways, except its foreign policy.
Japan, Nuclear Energy, and the TPP
Japan is about to replace its nuclear plants with something just as risky.
Japanese Parliamentarian Kuniko Tanioka briefs press and NGOs on Fukushima nuclear station, worsening situation, and what has gone underreported from Japan
Japanese Parliamentarian Ms. Kuniko Tanioka is one of the few Japanese politicians willing to speak out publicly and critically on the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns and her government’s response to it. She is joined by Robert Alvarez, IPS senior scholar, in a briefing on Fukushima to occur May 10.
Okinawa: Small Step Forward?
The U.S. military footprint on Okinawa is shrinking, but the impasse over bases remains.
Iraq and the Limits of U.S. Power
Iraq is showing leading neoconservatives the limits of America’s influence in a country it laid to waste.
No Nuclear Nirvana on the Horizon
Nearly a year after the Fukushima disaster and more than three decades after the Three Mile Island accident, nuclear power remains expensive, dangerous, and too radioactive for Wall Street.
Letter from Okinawa
There is perhaps more common ground between Okinawans and Marines than either Washington or Tokyo imagines.
Okinawan Delegation Visits DC for Base Closure
A delegation of politicians, lawyers, activists and students from Okinawa, Japan, will travel to Washington, DC, from January 21 to January 27 to advocate for the closure of Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futenma.
Why 2012 Will Shake Up Asia and the World
Can Washington move from Pacific power to Pacific partner?
Confronting Agent Orange
Allegations of Agent Orange use are rekindling the anti-base movements in South Korea and Japan.