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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
February 14, 2022 Country Reports · Japan
Country Report: Japan (February 2022)

Two themes have garnered the bulk of attention in Japan’s foreign relations at the beginning of 2022: (1) Japan-Russia relations in the context of the looming war over […]

Editorial Staff

Cold War, Northern Territories, Russia, Ukraine, WWII
October 12, 2020 Country Reports · Japan
Country Report: Japan (October 2020)

With Abe Shinzo’s decision to resign for health reasons at the end of August, discussion turned quickly to his legacy, including in international relations. One position was that […]

Editorial Staff

"Belt and Road" Initiative, Donald Trump, free and open Indo-Pacific, Joe Biden, Northern Territories, Senkakus, US-China rivalry, Yoshihide Suga
July 29, 2020 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (August 2020)

Japanese were asking in the late spring and early summer what the collapse of Sino-US ties means for their country and for bilateral relations with both parties. Would […]

Editorial Staff

COVID-19, free and open Indo-Pacific, G7, Hong Kong, Northern Territories, US-China trade war
June 1, 2020 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (June 2020)

The spring of 2020 saw a downturn in Sino-Japanese relations, which were now embroiled in the pandemic war of words, with little else on the foreign policy radar. […]

Editorial Staff

"Belt and Road" Initiative, Cold War, COVID-19, Northern Territories, Senkaku Islands, Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
January 20, 2020 Special Forum
The Case of Abe Shinzo

 On November 20, 2019, Abe Shinzo became the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history, at 2,887 days, surpassing the previous record held by Katsura Tarō in the early […]

Glen S. Fukushima

Abe Shinzo, Abenomics, comfort women, Kantei, Liberal Democratic Party, Northern Territories, TPP, Yasukuni Shrine
May 28, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (June 2019)

In the first half of spring 2019, in the face of a difficult environment for diplomacy with North Korea, Sino-US relations, and ROK-Japanese relations, Abe Shinzo continued to […]

Editorial Staff

"Belt and Road" Initiative, free and open Indo-Pacific, G20, Northern Territories, Putin-Kim summit, Reiwa
May 10, 2019 Special Forum
The Case of Japan under Abe Shinzo

Consider the paradox of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, who presented himself as the Japanese leader most committed to pursuing value-laden issues, becoming touted by 2019 as the one […]

Gilbert Rozman

"Belt and Road" Initiative, comfort women, free and open Indo-Pacific, Northern Territories, Yasukuni Shrine
February 19, 2019 Special Forum
The Sino-Russian-US Triangle and Northeast Asia: A View from Japan

While there are various perspectives within Japan, here I set forth an individual viewpoint and analyze international politics as a long-time researcher of Russia. First, I couch my […]

Hakamada Shigeki

Aleksandr III, free and open Indo-Pacific, INF Treaty, NATO, Northern Territories, Senkaku Islands, TPP
August 17, 2017 Open Forum
The Strange Rapprochement: Russian Military Pressure Tactics on the Northern Territories Issue

For the past several years, Japanese diplomacy has paid great attention to relations with Russia. After the second Abe cabinet was established in 2012, beginning with his visit […]

Koizumi Yu

1956 Japan-Soviet Joint Declaration, Japan-US Security Treaty, Northern Territories, Senkaku Islands, Southern Kuriles