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June 7, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (June 2018)

Kawakami Takashi in Kaigai Jijo No. 3-4, linked Trump’s chaos to America’s decline, leading to a breakdown in the world order. Giving rise to this is the power […]

Editorial Staff

Abe-Trump summit, BRI, China-Japan-Korea summit, Deal diplomacy, free and open Indo-Pacific, RCEP, trade war
April 30, 2018 Open Forum
Washington Insights: April 2018

The pace of change was overwhelming in the final weeks of winter and the first month of spring. Moon Jae-in appeared to be in the driver’s seat, but […]

Editorial Staff

China-Japan-South Korea summit, inter-Korean summit, Kim-Xi summit, Pax Sinica, Trump-Kim summit
April 19, 2018 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario II

Jennifer Lind has sketched positive prospects for South Korean-Japanese relations and the history issue. She broadly finds that geopolitical pressures will overwhelm historical narratives of animosity or re-write […]

Robert Kelly

anti-Japanism, comfort women, Dokdo /Takeshima, Park Geun-hye
April 19, 2018 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II

Those hoping for progress in historical reconciliation between Japan and South Korea would have been disappointed by Seoul’s recent commemoration of the March 1 independence movement. Such holidays […]

Jennifer Lind

anti-Koreanism, comfort women, Dokdo /Takeshima, Flying Tigers, March 1 address
March 19, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (April 2018 with Focus on Korea)

Not only was Abe battered by a domestic scandal, his foreign policy was rocked by diplomacy, history, and trade shocks. The North Korean presence at the Winter Olympics […]

Editorial Staff

“smile diplomacy”, comfort women, Dokdo /Takeshima, Pyeongchang Olympics, Six-Party Talks, Yasukuni
March 19, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (March 2018)

Three themes dominated the coverage in Russian analyses of the Asia-Pacific region: 1) China’s shift toward authoritarianism and tensions in the West over perceived Chinese protectionism; 2) aspects […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRI, Greater Eurasia, Russian Far East, Southern Kuril Islands, Trump-Kim summit, Xi Jinping
March 14, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (February 2018)

Understandably, Japanese have been preoccupied with the Korean Peninsula since the start of 2018. In this Country Report, we cover issues not central to the serious matters over […]

Editorial Staff

“Year of China”, BRI, CPTPP, free and open Indo-Pacific, TPP-11
March 8, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (March 2018)

In February and March 2018, South Korean news editorials focused on developments in US-South Korean relations and inter-Korean relations before, during, and after the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. […]

Eun A Jo

Kim Jong-chul, Kim Yo-jung, Mike Pence, North-South talks, Pyeongchang Olympics, trade war, Victor Cha
March 1, 2018 Open Forum
With Friends Like These: Japan-ROK Cooperation and US Policy

Although they share a common ally, history and politics keep Japan and South Korea at arm’s length and severely limit their defense cooperation. Since at least the mid-1990s, […]

Eric Heginbotham

comfort women, Dokdo /Takeshima, GSOMIA, Three Eyes, Yasukuni
February 27, 2018 Special Forum
Introduction

As the diplomatic prospects for resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis took center stage while the military focus remained fixed on North Korea’s persistent advances and the “fire […]

Editorial Staff

comfort women, KORUS FTA, Pyeongchang Olympics, THAAD, US-ROK alliance