Look to Japan-U.S. relations in the 1930s for clues on the course of current Sino-American ties.

Trump's appointment of such senior neocons as John Bolton and Mike Pompeo as well as his withdrawal from the JCPOA ensures the return of Iran's hard-liners.

The most vital issue for Tokyo is whether and how North Korea gives up its decades-old strategic nuclear missile development program.

It is at least the seventh time for Tokyo to see such inter-Korean "agreements" and, most ominously, they have never been implemented.

Few people in Japan are optimistic about the outcome of the Korean talks.

The implications of the limited U.S.-led air raid against Syria are not about Russia. They concern Damascus, Tehran and Pyongyang.