Abstract: The adjustment of the Abe administration’s foreign policy on China from tension toward détente was achieved through the combination of internal and external factors…
Country or Region: Japan
Abstract: At the end of 2017, reports concerning Japan’s military and security affairs were frequently seen in the media, bringing the strategic agenda of Japan…
Abstract: Responses to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) have been mixed. Many commentators have welcomed the opportunity for infrastructure development and projects to build…
Abstract: This article proposes a new concept of ‘contested multilateralism 2.0’ to describe the puzzling institutional building efforts by non-ASEAN members after the 2008 global…
Abstract: Japan is abandoning its once unidirectional foreign security policy towards the USA, two notable examples of which are its increasingly comprehensive and substantial security…
Abstract: Japan’s policy toward India since 2000 appears to be a sign of new directions in Japan’s security policy since its decision to establish a…
Abstract: This article argues that the creation of ‘strategic partnerships’ as an alternative form of alignment represents an effort by Tokyo, and other US-allies, to…
Abstract: Why has Japan attempted to promote Asian security multilateralism for over two decades despite its open acknowledgment of the vital centrality of the US–Japan…
Abstract: This article poses the question of why, after having consistently pursued an isolationist strategy of avoiding security ties with partners other than the US,…
Abstract: Japan’s lifting of its arms export ban through the Three Principles on the Transfer of Defense Equipment and Technology has opened up new strategic…
Abstract: During the cold war the United States was overwhelmingly central in Japan’s security policy. Japan hosted US bases and the Self-Defense Forces held joint…
Abstract: This study investigates the causes of Japan’s failure to reconcile the matter of South Korean “comfort women” from World War II. It draws on…
Abstract: East Asia is still politically and diplomatically divided while increasingly becoming integrated economically. East Asian states, excluding Japan, share a common experience in that…
Abstract: The Japanese often frame the history of East Asia in a “Japan versus China” dichotomy, and they have long embraced a “national narrative” that…
Abstract: [Note: This a speech the author presented at the Northeast Asia Cooperation Forum hosted by the East Asia Research Center, School of International Relations,…
