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August 18, 2015 Open Forum
Striking the Twenty-first Century Trade Agreement: The Case of Intellectual Property in the Trans-Pacific Partnership and US-Northeast Asian Economic Relations

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations are reaching their final stage. There is a good chance that they will be concluded within a month or two. While this economic pact […]

June Park

Economic Relations, Intellectual property, Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement, Trans-Pacific Partnership
August 18, 2015 Review Article
‘Ukeikasuru Nihon seiji’ (‘Japan’s Politics Leaning to the Right’)

Nakano Koichi, Ukeikasuru Nihon seiji (Japan’s Politics Leaning to the Right), (Tokyo: Iwanami Shinsho, 2015) On the day when the “Abe statement” in commemoration of the seventieth anniversary […]

Gilbert Rozman

Kokkashugi, Liberal Democratic Party, National identity, National security, Revisionism
August 13, 2015 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 3, No. 4)

The Cold War era is looking different from before in hindsight of the 2010s. The key breakthroughs in bilateral relations now seem less transformative, even to a degree […]

Editorial Staff

Abe-Obama summit, Japan-US relations, Regionalism, Sino-ROK Relations, unification
August 13, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (August 2015)

Japan-Russia Relations Relations with Russia appeared to be back on track in the first part of the summer. Plans for Putin to visit Japan were going forward despite […]

Editorial Staff

Japan-ROK tensions, Japan-US alliance, National security, Putin-Abe summit, South China Sea
August 13, 2015 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario I: Five Reasons for a Positive Outcome

Unlike the old days when there was a Soviet Union and China and Japan were quasi-strategic allies, today the situation is different. As the world changes, the “good […]

Ren Xiao*

collective self-defense, Economic Relations, Regionalism, Territorial Disputes, Yachi Shotaro
August 4, 2015 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario I: No Escape from Troubled Seesaw in Japan-China Relations

Japan’s relations with China for about two years from September 2012 were the worst they had been since normalization in 1972. In late 2014 and over the first […]

Takahara Akio*

EEZ, National security, Senkaku Islands
August 4, 2015 Alternative Scenarios
The Next Phase of Sino-Japanese Relations

Relations between China and Japan are on the mend in the summer of 2015, but will this bring a significant upturn or will it lead only to another […]

Editorial Staff

June 30, 2015 Open Forum
The US-Japan Alliance and East Asia: Five Guiding Principles

Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s trip to the United States in late April and early May was touted as a success and a boost for US-Japan alliance relations. The […]

Tanaka Hitoshi*

AIIB, Japan-US alliance, SDF, TPP, US-Japan Defense Cooperation Guidelines
June 18, 2015 Review Article
‘The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States’

  Brad Glosserman and Scott A. Snyder, The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015). As we approach […]

Sharon Yoon

historical revisionism, reconciliation, Shinzo Abe
June 4, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (June 2015)

Optimism in Japan is in short supply. The Foreign Ministry organized an academic group to analyze Asia after 20 years and consider what Japan’s role will be in […]

Editorial Staff

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