Tag: Japan

Japan. Suga’s premiership: a short-lived but packed administration (Robert Ward, IISS)

Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide announced on 3 September that he would not seek re-election as leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)...
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Japan. Suga Steps Down: What Next For Japan? (Shashank Mattoo, ORF)

A little more than a year after he stepped out of the shadows of Japanese politics and into the Prime Minister’s office, Yoshihide Suga has...
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Japan. Suga steps down: Japanese politics in the pandemic era (Mireya Solís, Brookings)

With Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announcing today that he will not seek reelection as leader of his party, COVID-19 has now dispatched two...
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Japan. Japan’s substantial military budget expansion caters to US request, to meet with China’s retaliation once involving Taiwan island (Liu Caiyu, Global Times)

Japan's defense authority has requested a record budget for 2022, which experts viewed as a move against China and shows Japan's aggressiveness for future...
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Russia/Japan/East Asia. Moscow and Tokyo Exploring Pathways for East Asia in an Era of Growing US-China Rivalry (Taisuke Abiru, Anton Bespalov, Valdai Discussion Club)

The US-China rivalry is becoming a constant feature of world politics. An improvement of relations between the United States and China should not be...
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Japan. Framing Japan’s Economic Security Agenda (Titli Basu, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), Eurasia Review)

The COVID-19 pandemic has situated the policy conversation on economic security at the centre stage of national security calculus not just in Washington and...
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USA/Japan/South Korea/China. Americans, Japanese, and South Koreans Wary of China’s Intentions (Chicago Council on Global Affairs)

REPORT BY KARL FRIEDHOFF, CRAIG KAFURA, AND DINA SMELTZ Against a backdrop of growing regional rivalry, March and April 2021 surveys conducted in the United States,...
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Japan/Taiwan/China. DPP ‘talks nonsense’with Japan, to cut own throat in seeking external support for secessionist agenda: experts (Global Times)

Wang Qi The ruling parties of Japan and the Taiwan region on Friday held their first-ever security talks, discussing the "challenge" from the Chinese mainland...
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Japan. Japan’s Five Eyes chance and challenge (East Asia Forum)

Ken Kotani, RUSI When asked about Japan participating in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance, ex-US and British intelligence officers usually claimed it was difficult because...
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Taiwan/Japan. Taiwan and Japan Ruling Parties to Hold First Security Talks (VoA)

AFP Taiwan and Japan's ruling party will hold security talks for the first time later this week, a Taiwanese lawmaker said Wednesday, as the two...
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China/Japan/Korea. GVC Linkage of Materials, Parts, and Equipment Industries in China, Japan and Korea (KIEP)

Hyung-Gon Jeong Over the past 20 years, CJK's industries in the materials, parts and equipment have grown significantly and led a major change in...
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Japan. COVID-19 and Japan’s shifting labour market flexibility (East Asia Forum)

Yuri Okina, Japan Research Institute The Japanese labour market has undergone significant change since the early 2010s when the baby boomer generation began to retire,...
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Japan/Taiwan/China/USA. Has Japan’s policy toward the Taiwan Strait changed? (Brookings)

Adam P. Liff Japanese leaders in 2021 have made an unusual series of high-profile statements and comments concerning Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait. These appeared to crescendo last month, when global headlines asserted...
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Iran/Japan. Iran: Japanese FM discusses nuclear deal, Afghanistan turmoil (Al Jazeera)

Maziar Motamedi Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi is in Tehran for a string of top-level meetings on a range of issues including Iran’s 2015 nuclear...
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Japan. Japan’s optional four-day week divides workers (East Asia Forum)

Naohiro Yashiro, Showa Women’s University In June 2021, Japan’s Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy promoted plans for an optional four-day workweek in its annual...
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Japan. Japan’s narrowing options on monetary easing (East Asia Forum)

Toshitaka Sekine, Hitotsubashi University More than eight years have passed since the Bank of Japan (BOJ) began its aggressive Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) program in...
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