Japan has entered a season of grand strategising. Government commissions, business associations, leading foundations, and academic working groups are all developing blueprints for a new, 21st-century Japanese role in the world.
Cute cartoon characters belie growing militarism in Japan.
Political realignment in Japan is causing its leaders to rethink its relationship with the rest of the world.
Northeast Asians wage war over history.
The World Bank’s new Climate Investment Funds will do nothing to help the climate; they’ll just give the bank more clout.
Japan is obsessed with the North Korean abduction issue. A new book by a U.S. defector sheds light on this obsession.
How will strange abductions from Korea figure in the transformation of Japanese foreign policy?
The disarmament movement is poised to make great strides in the next few years. Much may depend on Japan.
The private-jet perk is – literally and figuratively – a high-profile sign of an executive reward system out of control.
FDRs campaign against economic royalists lived onand triumphedafter his death. But not where he would have expected.
Northeast Asia heaved a sigh of relief at the latest news of a breakthrough in the nuclear negotiations with North Korea.
The Pentagon is restructuring its bases in South Korea. Welcome to the future of the U.S. global military presence.
Violence against women, violation of local autonomy, and contamination of the environment are all part of the U.S. military footprint in Asia.
A look at how to effectively petition to bring troops home from Iraq.
Nationalism is once again getting a makeover.