Tag: Japan

Chinese Ambassador to Japan proposes four directions for efforts over bilateral ties (Global Times)

As next year marks the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, Chinese Ambassador to Japan Kong Xuanyou proposed...

Russia-Japan Relations: Were Abe’s Efforts In Vain? (Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center)

One year after the end of Shinzo Abe’s long period of leadership, Japan has a new prime minister once again. The greatest foreign policy...

Japan launches second Taigei-class submarine, ‘Hakugei’ (Mike Yeo, Defense News)

Japan has launched the second of a new class of diesel-electric submarines exactly one year to the day that the lead boat of the...

Diplomat warns Japanese PM’s ultimatums on Kuril Islands delay prospect of solving issue (TASS)

Ultimatum-sounding remarks by Japan’s newly-elected Prime Minister Fumio Kishida that Tokyo won’t agree to sign a peace treaty with Moscow without settling the territorial...

Reconciling population and social expectations in Japan (Chelsea Szendi Schieder, East Asia Forum)

Japan has been declared the world’s first ‘super-aged’ society and a ‘pioneer shrinking society’, rapidly inverting the demographic pyramid upon which the modern state...

Kremlin emphasizes Southern Kurils part of Russian soil (TASS)

The southern territories of the Kuril Islands constitute Russian soil, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated, commenting in response to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's...

Japanese PM’s comment on Kurils complicates negotiations with Moscow, says Russian senator (TASS)

The statement of the newly elected Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida that Tokyo’s sovereignty covers the Northern Territories (Japan’s name for the South Kurils...

Consensus-builder Kishida’s challenge to maintain stability in Japan (East Asia Forum)

Japan has a new prime minister. On 29 September, Fumio Kishida won the race for the leadership of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP),...

Kishida a status quo prime minister facing escalating foreign policy challenges (Andrew Oros, East Asia Forum)

The ‘status quo candidate’, Fumio Kishida, in the four-way race to become Japan’s next leader was officially appointed as Japan’s 100th prime minister on...

Japan and South Korea’s battle over Dokdo/Takeshima at the Olympics (Joseph Egidio, East Asia Forum)

South Korea and Japan share an at times volatile post-war relationship. The dispute over the Dokdo/Takeshima islets remains a significant point of contention in the strained...

In China’s Shifting Historical Narrative, “War of Resistance” with Japan Retains Key Role (John S. Van Oudenaren, The Jamestown Foundation)

Last month, China commemorated the 90th anniversary of the September 18 incident— the false flag railway explosion that sparked Imperial Japan’s invasion of Manchuria...

Record Japanese government debt risk post-COVID-19 (Ippei Fujiwara, East Asia Forum)

COVID-19 has had a substantial adverse effect on the Japanese economy. Lockdowns and the suspension of business activities spurred supply shocks, and drops in...

Japan’s de facto aircraft carrier since WWII raises security concern in region (Liu Xuanzun, Global Times)

By having F-35B stealth fighter jets successfully flying from a modified helicopter destroyer in a recent test, Japan now in de facto has an...

Why rise of Fumio Kishida as new Japanese prime minister is good news for India (Shashank Mattoo, ORF)

The votes are in and the wait is over: Fumio Kishida will be anointed Prime Minister of Japan. His victory, just a year after an...

Economic diplomacy: Japan’s new PM joins the (supply) chain gang (Greg Earl, The Interpreter)

For a country renowned for churning through ministers, perhaps the most remarkable thing about Japan’s new ministry under freshly appointed leader Fumio Kishida is...

Another year, another prime minister for Japan (Bryce Wakefield, East Asia Forum)

Defying the predictions of many pundits, Fumio Kishida has been elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan and thus the nation’s...