Tag: Japan

Japan’s maritime cooperation in Southeast Asia (Takahiro Kamisuna, IISS)

In January 2025, during his first visit to Indonesia as Japanese prime minister, Ishiba Shigeru announced that Japan would send two high-speed patrol vessels...

Japan and the US – tariffs, gaiatsu and options (Robert Ward, IISS)

Japan would be adversely affected by increased US tariffs but has a history of responding positively to policy lurches in Washington. Pressure from the...

Open newsletter – february 23, 2022

ASIA A divide is emerging between how the Asia Pacific region has responded to the Omicron wave of COVID-19, and how North American and Western...

Open newsletter – february 22, 2022

AFGHANISTAN The Taliban is creating a “grand army” for Afghanistan that will include officers and troops who served the old regime, says the official tasked...

Daily news – February 8, 2022

News from: Al Jazeera, Astana Times, Atlantic Council, Brookings, Bruegel, Chatham House, CSIS, Defense News, Defense One, East Asia Forum, Foundation for Defense of...

Daily news – February 7, 2022 a.m.

AFGHANISTAN Bamiyan Buddhas and Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage. Rishika Dhumal, Vivekananda International Foundation: In Afghanistan, Buddhist cave temples are concentrated in three regions: Jalalabad (180 caves),...

Japan-Taiwan relations: A look back on 2021 and look ahead to 2022 (Adam P. Liff and Ryan Hass, Brookings)

Throughout 2021, U.S. government officials and scholars expressed deepening concerns that China may use its growing military power to force unification with Taiwan. Against this backdrop,...

Japan’s low-tech world (John West, The Interpreter)

Japan is a high-tech country, right? It is, after all, the home of bullet trains, robots, computer games and all sorts of gadgets. But there...

BOJ raises inflation forecasts but rules out policy tightening (Leika Kihara and Tetsushi Kajimoto, Reuters)

The Bank of Japan raised its inflation forecasts on Tuesday but said it was in no rush to change its ultra-loose monetary policy, as...

Japan–Australia defence deal opens up opportunities for closer cooperation (Grant Newsham, The Strategist)

The Australian and Japanese prime ministers met virtually on 6 January and signed a reciprocal access agreement (RAA) that makes it easier for each...

Entrepreneurs from China, Japan and South Korea pin hopes on the RCEP: survey (Zhang Dan, Global Times)

Despite the ongoing pandemic and geopolitical volatility, most entrepreneurs from China, Japan and South Korea are optimistic about China's economic growth in 2022 and...

Japan deepens defense ties with US to target China, seeking to justify amending the war-renouncing constitution (Wang Qi, Global Times)

Aiming to deepen defense cooperation, the US and Japan on Friday held a virtual 2+2 meeting, with a new five-year agreement on sharing the...

US, Japan chide China as they deepen defence ties (Al Jazeera)

Japan and the United States have expressed concern about what they described as China’s “ongoing efforts” to “undermine” the rules-based international order, as the...

Security relationship with Japan is only the beginning for Australia (Shiro Armstrong – East Asia Forum)

Australia has become Japan’s most important security partner after the United States. Japan is the world’s third largest economy and central to outcomes in...

Nagasaki’s global city diplomacy (Christophe Meyer, Stephen Cullis and Daniel Clausen – East Asia Forum)

Traditionally, diplomacy has been the domain of countries. But the 21st century has seen a rise in innovative diplomacy from cities. Cities have shown...

Challenges abound for Japan’s Kishida in 2022 (Masahiko Takeda, East Asia Forum)

Through 2021, Japan experienced its third, fourth and fifth waves of COVID-19. A government state of emergency was in place during most of the...