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An erratic response to coronavirus shows how Japan’s domestic policy is out-of-sync with its desired global image.
Japan’s process of testing for Covid-19 has been criticised.
The US is still a major world power and world leaders need to keep in Donald Trump’s good books.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet reshuffle is an exercise in illusion. Yet it reveals some unwelcome truths about his political present - and future.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe needs the US to confront North Korea, revitalize Japan’s economy and boost his standing at home. And he knows flattery is the way to this president’s heart.
What Brexit means for future UK-Japan business.
Japan is targeting an ‘upmarket’ audience of wealthy business executives, city professionals, millennial foodies and highbrow arts enthusiasts.
The highly awaited summit has the potential to lead to real peace on the peninsula- but only if both countries can find a common interest on which to build an agreement.
Seven world leaders with axes to grind are preparing to sit round one table. Sparks will fly.
An MP from Japan’s governing party recently commented that single women were a burden on the state. But many young women, and men, are rethinking the lure of married life.
US-Japan relations are under pressure. As leaders of the two countries meet this week, a scholar tells the story of the exchange program that made such a difference to American attitudes toward Japan.
Kim Jong-un’s surprise recent visit to Beijing and Xi Jinping was an awkward get-together that didn’t address the elephant in the room – Kim’s possible face-to-face meeting soon with Donald Trump.
The underlying implication of Malcolm Turnbull’s Tokyo visit was the interest shared by Japan and Australia to counter the strategic rise of China.
Support for asserting Japan’s military might in response to threats from North Korea and China may destabilize the region.
They may not be co-ordinated, nor linked in any way. But two events in Asia over the next week will help define Australia’s political and security environment for the next period. First is the convening…
How did a man once suspected of dubious far-right sympathies end up on the threshold of a record third term?
Having called a snap election for October 22, Japanese Prime Minister now faces a tough battle against a charisimatic new-comer in Yoriko Koike.
In many respects, Japan’s constitutional debate is a microcosm of Asia’s international order, relfecting a basic mode of operation now past it use-by date.
Shinzo Abe may have kickstarted the debate on constitutional change with high hopes for success. But the outcome in 2020 is anything but certain.
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Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and Professor of International Studies, La Trobe University
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Sasakawa Associate Professor of International Relations and Japanese Foreign Policy, University of East Anglia
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Lecturer in International Relations, Loughborough University
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Associate Professor, International Relations, Contemporary Japanese Politics & Society, University of Tokyo
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Reader in Asian Studies, University of Birmingham
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Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
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