With Japan and South Korea in the middle of a feud, East Asia is on the verge of a serious unraveling.
Posts Tagged: Shinzo Abe
Elections are coming up in Japan, and Shinzo Abe faces a challenge from the left.
By roping India and Japan into its standoff with China, the U.S. is raising the nuclear stakes in Asia — including, dangerously, between India and Pakistan.
China and South Korea could be game changers on climate — and create a more peaceful region in the process.
Global uprisings against corruption can fuse middle-class concerns over the rule of law to a more radical critique of unequal political systems.
Shinzo Abe's on a road trip to define Japan's new identity in an era of Trump and Duterte.
Japan and South Korea have reached an agreement on the "comfort women" issue that has made a lot of people uncomfortable.
Washington and Tokyo remain committed to growing the U.S. military footprint on the island of Okinawa — whether Okinawans like it or not.
With its pacifist constitution (literally) beaten down into irrelevance, Japan is in the throes of an identity crisis.
In the Philippines, the grandson of a despised collaborator has endorsed the remilitarization of his country's former occupiers — by the grandson of a war criminal, no less.