Editorials Apr 24, 2021
Japan-U.S. alliance remains strong, but challenges lie ahead
Looking at recent developments, it seems clear that there is far more that unites Japan and its ally than divides them.
Commentary / Japan Apr 22, 2021
Will the Suga-Biden summit provoke China?
by Kuni Miyake
Based on my observations, global media coverage of the Suga-Biden summit meeting in Washington was rather favorable. Walter Russell Mead, for example, wrote in The Wall Street Journal that Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s visit was “hailed in both countries as a major success,” and ...
Commentary / Japan | API Geoeconomic Briefing Jan 12, 2021
How Japan can lead a free and open Indo-Pacific
by Yuichi Hosoya
As a friend of the U.S. and a key trading partner for China, Japan has a role to play in calming tensions in the region.
Commentary / World | API Geoeconomic Briefing Oct 8, 2020
Ensuring Japan's future as a strategic partner of the U.S.
by Yuichi Hosoya
With Washington's relationship with Beijing fast deteriorating, Tokyo has the opportunity to step up and show its strength.
Commentary | Opinion Aug 17, 2020
Japan and the 'great power competition'
by Brad Glosserman
Return to first principles to get the region and the world right.
Commentary / Japan Mar 25, 2020
Finding strength and unity within our uncertain 'socially distant' future
by Joshua W. Walker
Japan's long history of 'bending to adversity' prepares Tokyo for what comes next in terms of global and international implications.
Commentary / Japan Mar 8, 2020
Will American populism damage Japan?
by Yoichi Funabashi
The sort of polarizing populism exemplified by Trump, Sanders and several other current world leaders may present Japan and the international order with their biggest challenge of the post-war era.
Commentary / Japan Feb 21, 2020
How the U.S. election will impact Japanese politics
by Yuki Tatsumi
This year's U.S. presidential election could serve as an existential shock that Japanese politics may desperately need to revitalize itself, forcing a generational change in political leadership that is long overdue.
Commentary / Japan Dec 31, 2019
Presidential election will define Japan-U.S. ties
by Glen S. Fukushima
The outcome of the U.S. presidential election will have profound implications for Japan and the rest of the world.
National Nov 16, 2019
Washington asked Tokyo to pay five times as much per year for U.S. forces based in Japan
The United States asked Japan earlier this year to pay significantly more — about five times as much per year — to support U.S. forces stationed on the soil of its major Asian ally, government sources said Saturday. The request was delivered by John Bolton, ...
Commentary / Japan Oct 28, 2019
Erosion of America's reliability for allies
by Kuni Miyake
The Trump administration's actions raise questions about the credibility of the Japan-U.S. alliance.