Oct 12,2015 National Commentaries The Japanese Perspective "The Challenge for Park’s Summit with Obama after Abe’s Summit." The most important factor we need to consider in directing our attention in East Asia to developments since Prime Minister Abe visited Washington is the change in relations between China, the rising superpower in the region, and the United States, the leading superpower defending […] Kazuhiko Togo Article 9 , CJK summit , National security , normal state , US security
Dec 11,2014 Country Reports Country Report: Japan (December 2014) As Abe stumbled in the fall of 2014, his defenders grew more aggressive. Initiatives to Russia, North Korea, and China faced one sort of problem or another. Even as Abe reactivated his pursuit of Putin, he was put in the awkward position in Brisbane of a G7 warning, which Japan could not avoid joining, against […] Editorial Staff AIIB , history issues , Japanese Abductees , normal state , Ukraine
Jan 10,2014 Open Forum Power Shifts and Policy Dilemmas in Northeast Asia At the beginning of a new year it should be useful to take a fresh look at the power posture of each of the major powers active in Northeast Asia, considering the impact of their different approaches. A year ago I gave a shorthand description of the power posture of each of them in an […] Han Sung-Joo* normal state , Rebalancing , tandem development , Trustpolitik