China As tensions in the region rise, Japan again debates its pacifist constitution May 16, 2017 0 Written by Craig Mark. Japan could finally be gearing up for the first-ever change to its constitution. In a recent video address to a pro-constitutional…
Foreign Policy The Trump Administration and Japan May 11, 2017 0 Written by Yee-Kuang Heng. Japan’s Prime Minister Abe Shinzo moved quickly to become the first foreign leader to meet with Donald Trump in Trump Tower…
International Relations Japan and China court Africa September 15, 2016 0 Written by Julie Yu-Wen Chen and Obert Hodzi. Africa is currently being courted by both China and Japan. Rich in natural resources and a growing market,…
China Yasukuni Shrine and Japan’s War Responsibility September 8, 2015 1 Written by Akiko Takenaka. Yasukuni Shrine, where the military-related dead of modern Japan are memorialized, remains one of the main focal points in the international…
China China’s military parade is an error of judgement September 2, 2015 4 Written by Steve Tsang. Whenever the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) departs from routine protocol, it is usually highly significant. Today’s military parade in Beijing, which…
China The 70th Anniversary of Japan’s surrender September 2, 2015 1 Written by Hans Van de Ven. On August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito announced in his first ever radio broadcast that he had instructed his cabinet ‘to…
China Abe’s Subtle Apology: Can It Help Japan Become ‘Normal’? September 1, 2015 0 Written by Niv Horesh. Visitors to Japan can feel this is a country undergoing an identity crisis. After more than two decades of economic stagnation,…
Japan Japan’s sorry saga August 28, 2015 1 Written by Mark Beeson. What is it about northeast Asia? Why is it that a part of the world that is a byword for unparalleled…
China The Abe Statement and the politics of war memory in Japan August 24, 2015 1 Written by Edward Vickers. Since the mid-1990s, successive Japanese premiers have issued expressions of regret for wartime aggression and colonialism. Nevertheless, anti-Japanese nationalism in China and…
China Abe’s statement on the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII and Sino-Japanese relations August 17, 2015 0 Written by Karl Gustafsson. On 14 August, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivered his long anticipated statement on the 70th anniversary of the end of the…
