March – April 2024

The Asan Forum > Northern Territories

Northern Territories

Select the date
April 26, 2017 National Commentaries
Japan-Russia-US Triangle

With the advent of the Trump administration, would not, first, Russo-US relations improve, allowing Japan to make progress in negotiations on the Northern Territories with Russia? Until early […]

Omae Hitoshi*

1956 Japan-Soviet Union Joint Declaration, Crimea, Economic sanctions, Japan-US Security Treaty, joint economic activity, Northern Territories, Peace Treaty, Syria
March 27, 2017 Open Forum
Recent Views in Japan Concerning Sino-Russian Relations

How Japanese officials, media, and academics interpret the state of the relationship between China and Russia matters for Japan’s diplomacy with both countries and its foreign policy more […]

Yoko Hirose

8-point economic cooperation plan, Abe Shinzo, Arms sales, Balance of power, BRICS, energy, G7, India, Kuril Islands, media, NATO, Northern Territories, Putin, sanctions, SCO, Senkaku Islands, Six-Party Talks, South China Sea, Territorial Disputes, Trump, Ukraine, US-Japan alliance, Vietnam, Xi Jinping
March 27, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (March 2017)

On February 10, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs carried an Interfax interview with Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov on Russian Asia policies in the past year. He cited […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Abe Shinzo, APEC, ASEAN, Cold War, Denuclearization, Eastern Economic Forum, globalization, Greater Eurasia, India, Kuril Islands, Northern Territories, Pakistan, Park Geun-hye, sanctions, SCO, Silk Road Economic Belt, TPP, Trump, Xi Jinping
February 22, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: China (February 2017)

In late 2016-early 2017, Chinese analysts examined state-level decision-making on the Korean Peninsula. In the first batch of articles written after the Hague tribunal’s decision, they explored China’s […]

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

ASEAN, ASEAN Maritime Forum, ASEAN Regional Forum, ASEAN+3, community of common destiny, Duterte, East Asia Summit, energy, G7, Greater Mekong Subregion, Kuril Islands, missile tests, nationalism, Northern Territories, nuclear tests, One Belt One Road, Putin, RCEP, ROK-US Alliance, sanctions, Shinzo Abe, South China Sea, Territorial Disputes, terrorism, THAAD, trilateralism
February 10, 2017 Open Forum
Japan’s Russia Policy: Looking Back on 2016 and Ahead to 2017

Building closer relations with Russia was undoubtedly one of the main priorities of Japanese foreign policy in 2016. This was made clear by Prime Minister Abe in his […]

James D.J. Brown

1956 Joint Declaration, Abe Shinzo, Crimea, East China Sea, Eastern Economic Forum, G7, G8, Hikiwake, Kuril Islands, Northern Territories, Peace Treaty, Putin, sanctions, South China Sea, Syria, Territorial Disputes, Trump, Ukraine
February 1, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (January 2017)

Russia appears to be on the precipice of some important change with less optimism than before but more candor about uncertainties. The December Putin-Abe summit left more questions […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Abe Shinzo, ASEAN, Central Asia, comfort women, EAS, energy, Eurasian Economic Union, G7, Greater Eurasia, GSOMIA, India, Kazakhstan, Kuril Islands, Mongolia, Northern Territories, One Belt One Road, Park Geun-hye, Putin, Russian Far East, sanctions, SCO, Silk Road Economic Belt, South China Sea, Taiwan, THAAD, TPP, Trump
February 1, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (January 2017)

Three shocks left Japan’s media groping for answers at the end of 2016 and the start of 2017. The Trump shock kept playing out after the initial alarm […]

Editorial Staff

abductions, Abe Shinzo, anti-globalization, ASEAN, Australia, comfort women, Crimea, Diaoyu islands, energy, GSOMIA, India, Ing-wen, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kuril Islands, Northern Territories, Park Geun-hye, Philippines, Putin, Russian Far East, sanctions, Senkaku Islands, strategic patience, Taiwan, THAAD, TPP, Trans-Siberian Railroad, trilateralism, Trump, Tsai, Ukraine
December 28, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario II

The long-awaited December 15-16 Yamaguchi-Tokyo summit appears to have been a failure, which masqueraded as a step forward. That is the conclusion many sources in Japan have drawn, […]

Gilbert Rozman

1956 Joint Declaration, Abe Shinzo, Eastern Economic Forum, energy, G7, Hikiwake, Kuril Islands, Northern Territories, Peace Treaty, Putin, Russian Far East, sanctions, Territorial Disputes, trilateralism, Trump administration, two plus alpha
December 28, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II

Was President Putin’s visit on December 15-16 a success or a failure? Media coverage seems to have been almost unanimous in Japan and Russia. In Japan, a general […]

Kazuhiko Togo

1855 treaty, 1956 Joint Declaration, Abe Shinzo, APEC, Kuril Islands, Northern Territories, Peace Treaty, Putin, Territorial Disputes, Trump administration, two islands, two plus alpha
December 13, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (November)

Two themes dominated the news in November: the “shock” of the election of Donald Trump, which is covered separately in a Special Forum article, and the “anticipation” of […]

Editorial Staff

AIIB, ASEAN, comfort women, East China Sea, energy, G20, GSOMIA, Hikiwake, Kaesong Industrial Complex, Northern Territories, Russian Far East, sanctions, Senkaku Islands, South China Sea, Territorial Disputes, THAAD, theater missile defense, trilateralism, Trump administration, two islands plus alpha