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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
April 19, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: China (April 2016)

In early 2016, Chinese articles assessed Japanese relations with Myanmar, ASEAN’s South China Sea policy, and China–ASEAN relations. They considered South Korea’s new policies toward Japan and the […]

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

Arctic policy, ASEAN-Chinan relations, Japan-Myanmar relations, Maritime security, NPT, South China Sea
April 14, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (April 2016)

In the late winter of 2016, the Japanese mainstream was pleased with US foreign policy, if nervous about campaign rhetoric: reassured about triangularity opposed to North Korea, but […]

Editorial Staff

December 28 Japan-ROK agreement, History textbooks, JICA, South China Sea, Takeshima, Trump
April 7, 2016 Review Article
Ex-ambassadors to Seoul Advise It to Change

G. A. Ivashentsov and Shin Beom-shik, eds., Bezopasnost’ i Sotrudnichestvo v Severo-Vostochnoi Azii: Sovmestnyi Dokument Rossiiskikh i Iuzhnokoreiskikh Ekspertov (Security and Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Joint Document of […]

Gilbert Rozman

Historical consciousness, North Korean threat, Sino-US Relations, trilateralism
April 7, 2016 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 4, No. 2)

Sino-US Relations While many are discussing the dominance of competition over cooperation in Sino-US relations, one DC presentation argued that both threads are intensifying under the strong leadership […]

Editorial Staff

Eurasian Five, Japanese nationalism, Obama-Xi Summit, Russian Far East, South China Sea
February 23, 2016 Open Forum
US-Japan Relations, 2015-2017

One year has passed since (in The Asan Forum 3, no. 1) I analyzed US-Japan relations during the first two years (December 2012-January 2015) of Abe Shinzo’s second […]

Glen S. Fukushima

Abe Shinzo, Abenomics, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), US Presidential Primaries, US-Japan Joint Vision Statement, US-Japan Relations, US-Japan Security Treaty