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March – April 2022
April 28, 2022 Country Reports · Japan
Country Report: Japan (April 2022)

Country Report: Japan (March-April 2022) Only one subject, understandably, has preoccupied Japanese media coverage of foreign relations over the past two months: the war unleashed by Russia in […]

Editorial Staff

Abe Shinzo, Fumio Kishida, Northern Territories, South China Sea, Taiwan, Ukraine
March 21, 2022 Special Forum
Tracking Japanese Thinking toward Asia: Early Abe, the Korean Peninsula, and Australia

This Special Forum approaches Japanese foreign policy from three angles. First, it tracks the momentous shift in thinking that occurred during the first four years of Abe Shinzo’s […]

Editorial Staff

Cold War, Russia, TPP, Ukraine, US-Japan alliance, WWII
March 21, 2022 Special Forum
Tracking the Downswings in a ‘Virtual Alliance’: Japan’s Policy toward the Korean Peninsula over a Decade

This year, 2022, could be critical for Japan-ROK relations. The relationship has been in free fall for a decade—although there were a couple of moments at which the […]

Brad Glosserman

Abe Shinzo, comfort women, Fumio Kishida, Moon Jae-in, Park Geun-hye, trilateralism
March 21, 2022 Special Forum
Tracking the Pathway to a ‘Quasi-alliance’: Japan’s Policy toward Australia from 2013 to 2022

The Way to a “Quasi-ally”: Japan’s Policy to Australia, 2013-2022 Satake Tomohiko As Japan’s alliance with the United States drew closer in the post-Cold War era, two US […]

Satake Tomohiko

Abe Shinzo, AUKUS, free and open Indo-Pacific, Quad, Quasi-alliance