Japan

On March 11, 2016, Japan marked five years since the occurrence of one of the most devastating natural and technological catastrophes in world history, triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake. Its epicenter…

Some kind of bad luck is haunting the current Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDPDahJTkfw, Shinzo Abe, who is, without a doubt, one of the most prominent Japanese political figures of the past decades. This…

The changing face of Japan’s foreign policy—a many-year process—has been marked by several notable messages sent to the outside world in 2016 that has just begun. Firstly, it was Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s response to the request of the members…

National elections in the territory of the main players have a significant impact on the world’s political game. In the coming year, the US presidential elections and the Japanese parliamentary elections will be of great significance. Whoever…

October 22 was marked by the beginning of a five-day trip of Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe across six Central Asian states. According to the Nikkei Asian Review, during his visits to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and…

In the entire history of China-Japan relations, the two countries had never been in such a harsh opposition and their bilateral relations had never been so strained as in the period that followed the events of September 2012. The Japanese authorities’ decision to…

Final approval of the raft of defense laws that was effected by the Upper Chamber of the Japanese National Diet (Japanese ParliamentDahJTkfw overnight into September 19 2015, received an overall negative reaction of the Japanese society. An opinion poll…

The 70th anniversary of the end of World War II has been momentous for many reasons. A new law enacted by the Japanese last week is not the least of a string of consequences of a new Cold War that threatens our world.  For the first time since 1945 Japanese…

Thus, during the night of 18–19 September 2015, in situation of extreme nervousness the upper house of the Japanese parliament finally ratified a number of laws in the defense sphere, which were approved two…

On August 14 the world witnessed one of those rare milestone events, based on which the trends for the further development of relations in the strategic…

Events of the past two months confirm the previously noted Japanese widespread activation in the South China Sea and in Southeast Asia as a whole. Its aspiration to control this region proved to play a vital role in the both world wars of…

In the recent months, the increase of direct and indirect pressure exerted on Beijing by its major regional opponents, involved in the complex network of partner relations in the strategic “China-US-Japan” triangle, has been observed. It is hard not to..