Commentary / Japan Sep 4, 2018

Use the moral authority of Hiroshima

Geopolitical tensions have spiked across the world. No arms control negotiations are currently under way to reduce global nuclear stockpiles.

Commentary / Japan Aug 5, 2018

Japan's nuclear options

Signing the treaty banning nuclear weapons would put Japan on the right side of history, geography, legality, morality and humanity.

Commentary / Japan Jul 9, 2018

The Quad isn't a knight in shining armor to slay the dragon

Instead of trying to counterbalance China through a collective defense pact, the Quad four should build an informal security architecture.

Commentary / World Jun 17, 2018

The Kim-Trump summit: the good, the bad and the ugly

Despite praise for last week's "unprecedented" summit, there were good reasons why previous U.S. administrations had refused multiple requests from North Korean leaders to meet.

Commentary / World May 31, 2018

Did John Bolton try to sink the Trump-Kim summit?

U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton detests professional diplomats as gutless appeasers, and has yet to meet an arms control agreement he likes or a crisis that cannot be solved by bombing the enemy.

Commentary / World May 10, 2018

Trump is master of the art of making America grate

The U.S. president's decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal will worsen ties with Europe, destabilize the Mideast and complicate efforts to reverse North Korea's nuclearization.

Commentary / Japan May 1, 2018

Spring blossoms on the Korean Peninsula

The belief that the Kim-Trump summit will produce a definitive resolution rests on irrational exuberance.

Commentary / World Apr 4, 2018

All bets off on the Korea summit outcome

The pieces of the jigsaw are falling into place on the Korean Peninsula. But the overall picture — a denuclearized North Korea, a nuclear-weapon-free zone for all of Northeast Asia and a U.S. withdrawal from East Asia — remains fuzzy.