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August 12, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (July 2016)

Articles in the spring and early summer of 2016 were split between two categories: those on Sino-Russian relations, affirming or refuting charges that they have failed to meet […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

ASEAN, Asia-Pacific region, East and South China Seas, Eurasian Economic Union, Silk Road Economic Belt, Sochi Russia-ASEAN summit
August 12, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (August 2016)

In late spring and early summer, the focus of the Japanese media shifted from the G7 and Obama’s visit to Hiroshima to the South China Sea ruling and […]

Editorial Staff

comfort women, Donald Trump, EEU-ASEAN, G7 Summit, Hashimoto-Yeltsin plan, Senkaku Islands, South China Sea, Takeshima, THAAD
July 27, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II: Japan-US-India Security Cooperation Has Progressed “Dramatically”

The Japan-US-India cooperation has progressed dramatically over the last two months (June-July 2016). Three developments, in particular, have highlighted an advance in the trilateral security cooperation. First, defense […]

Nagao Satoru*

Asian Security Summit, Indian Ocean, Malabar maritime exercises, Shangri-La Dialogue, South China Sea, UNCLOS
June 15, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: China (June 2016)

In the spring of 2016, Chinese analysts considered the repercussions of North Korea’s latest nuclear test. They assessed the prospects for China’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) policy, […]

Danielle F. S. Cohen (assisted by Dong Jiaxin)

Afghan reconstruction, Cuban missile crisis, enuclearization, Japanese intervention, Sino-Iranian relations, SLOC, Sustainable security, THAAD
June 3, 2016 Open Forum
Chinese Interpretations of Japan and Its Role in the Indo-Pacific Region in 2016

In April, Kishida Fumio made the first official visit by a Japanese foreign minister to China in more than four years. Sino–Japanese relations had deteriorated over the Senkaku/Diaoyu […]

Danielle F. S. Cohen (assisted by Dong Jiaxin)

Article 9, China threat theory, Expansionist history, India-Japan relations, Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, proactive pacifism, Quadrilateral initiative, South China Sea, UNCLOS
April 29, 2016 Special Forum
Introduction to Special Forum

The relationship between the United States and Japan has changed under Prime Minister Abe and President Obama not only becoming more robust bilaterally, but acquiring new significance in […]

Editorial Staff

Japan-US relations, South China Sea, trilateralism
April 29, 2016 Special Forum
Japan, China, and the United States in an Uncertain Asia

Since the territorial dispute erupted, there has been limited contact between the leaders of Japan and China. Prime Minister Abe Shinzo and President Xi Jinping have met only […]

Sheila A. Smith

Alliance Coordination Mechanism, Maritime Self-Defense Force, Senkaku Islands, State Oceanic Administration
April 29, 2016 Special Forum
The Japan-US-Russia Triangle in 2016

The Washington-Tokyo-Moscow triangle has intermittently drawn attention since the 1950s for its potential to shift Japan’s foreign policy and alter the course of great power balancing. Until the […]

Gilbert Rozman

2 + alpha, Abe-Putin courtship, G-7 sanctions, Hikiwake, Northern Territories, Ukraine
April 29, 2016 Special Forum
Synopsis of the German Marshall Fund’s Japan Trilateral Forum, March 1-2, 2016

Why is it important to forge a global triangular framework under the auspices of Washington, Tokyo, and Brussels? Triangularity was assumed to exist during the Cold War, but […]

Editorial Staff

AIIB, Asianism, Populism, Post-modern Syndrome, Refugee crisis
April 29, 2016 Special Forum
Navigating Historical Tensions: Pragmatic Leadership, Empathy, and the United States Factor in Japan-South Korea Relations

The year 2015 was, arguably, an important turning point for Japan’s relations with South Korea. Since the advent of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) administration of Prime Minister […]

John Nilsson-Wright

Abandonment-Entrapment model, Han Miracle, Kono Statement, Yasukuni Shrine