Some have taken Trump’s recent meetings with East Asian leaders as a sign that Trump's statements that he will withdraw American troops from bases in South Korea and Japan are mere election rhetoric. Is this really so?...
Politics would be behind much of the contestation in Taiwan about whether the ban on Japanese food from areas affected by radiation from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster should be lifted...
Controversy has erupted in Japan concerning half-Taiwanese, half-Japanese politician Renho Murata, a frontrunner for president of the opposition Democratic Party...
After a resounding victory by Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party in Upper House elections, it would appear that the ground has been cleared for Abe to push for the reinterpretation of Article 9 of the Japanese constitution. What next, then, for the student movement opposed to constitutional reinterpretation?...
Though little discussed outside of Japan, Okinawa would currently be in a state of political crisis after the mass deployment of upwards of five hundred and it is rumored as much as one thousand riot police from the more central Japanese islands to the district of Takae in Okinawa, which has only a population of 160...
With the recent agreement by the United States, South Korea, and Japan to step up trilateral cooperation in the event of threats by North Korea, is it that China is the real reason for closer ties?...
Taiwan’s continued territorial claims over disputed South China Seas islands also claimed by Japan may lead to eventual backlash against Taiwan, despite current efforts by Tsai Ing-Wen to build ties with Japan...
The recent deal between Japan and Korea reached on the historical issue of comfort women is probably an attempt to cement relations in the face of the threat of China...
It is time to start looking ahead to the impact that the Tsai presidency will have upon Taiwan’s international relationships with nations in the Asia Pacific, as well as how her administration will figure into larger geopolitical trends...
