Japan

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un before their bilateral meeting at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore June 12, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1BD9794C10

Order from Chaos

Second summit, second chance

Bruce Jones

Thursday, October 18, 2018

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Thursday, September 27, 2018

Reports

A Japan Air Self-Defense Force CH-47 Chinook helicopter collects water from the ocean to drop on the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Fukushima March 17, 2011. Operators of the quake-crippled nuclear plant in Japan again deployed military helicopters on Thursday in a bid to douse overheating reactors, as U.S. officials warned of the rising risk of a catastrophic radiation leak from spent fuel rods. REUTERS/Yomiuri (JAPAN - Tags: MILITARY DISASTER ENVIRONMENT ENERGY IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. JAPAN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN JAPAN - GM1E73H0VIG01

Asia & the Pacific

Japan's current air defense readiness and new methods for air policing

Masataka Oguro

September 2018

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), smiles during a news conference after Japan's lower house election, at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo, Japan October 22, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon - RC16A76A3030

India

A Confluence of Two Strategies: The Japan-India Security Partnership in the Indo-Pacific

Dhruva Jaishankar

Monday, April 23, 2018

Mid adult Japanese businesswoman using laptop computer with two colleagues in business meeting

Gender

Lessons from the rise of women’s labor force participation in Japan

Jay Shambaugh, Ryan Nunn, and Becca Portman

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

North Korea

Averting catastrophe: U.S. policy options for North Korea

John R. Allen, Richard C. Bush, Robert Einhorn, Steven Pifer, Jonathan D. Pollack, Evans J.R. Revere, Tarun Chhabra, and Bruce Jones

April 2017

Picture of a poster of Japanese fighter planes.

Asia & the Pacific

Japan’s future defense equipment policy

Col. Hiroyuki Sugai

October 2016

Blog Posts

A passerby looks at a TV screen reporting news about North Korea's missile launch in Tokyo, Japan September 15, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1EB4F99740

Order from Chaos

What do Americans and Japanese think of Trump’s summit with Kim Jong-un?

Shibley Telhami

Monday, June 11, 2018

FILE PHOTO: A combination photo shows U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong Un in Washignton, DC, U.S. May 17, 2018 and in Panmunjom, South Korea, April 27, 2018 respectively. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque and Korea Summit Press Pool/File Photos - RC1486AEE300

Order from Chaos

What to expect out of the Trump-Kim Jong-un summit

Jung H. Pak, Jonathan Stromseth, Ryan Hass, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Richard C. Bush, and Mireya Solís

Sunday, June 10, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, during a news conference at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan, November 6, 2017. REUTERS/Kiyoshi Ota/Pool - RC1C9C826580

Order from Chaos

Another date at Mar-a-Lago: Will Abe and Trump go steady?

Mireya Solís

Monday, April 16, 2018

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Events

2018

Sep

Past Event

Mr. X and the Pacific: George F. Kennan and American policy in East Asia

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Japan in Asia: Economic diplomacy in the new geopolitics

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

The future of trade in U.S.-Japan relations

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Washington, DC

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Dilemmas of a Trading Nation

By Mireya Solís

2017

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Japan’s Development Assistance: Foreign Aid and the Post-2015 Agenda

By John Page, Hiroshi Kato, and Yasutami Shimomura

2015

The Perils of Proximity

By Richard C. Bush

2010

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Multimedia

President Trump and PM Abe standing together

Japan

On Trump’s meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe

Mireya Solís

Monday, February 13, 2017

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More on Japan

[The agreement between Japan and the United to engage in bilateral trade talks] is just the beginning of a long and winding road.

Mireya Solís Japan Times Online Thursday, September 27, 2018

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to media after the news conference by the U.S. President Donald Trump, after the summit between the U.S. and North Korea in Singapore, at Abe's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, June 12, 2018. REUTERS/Issei Kato - RC1CD3CB8000

Japan’s National Security Council: Policy coordination and political power

Adam P. Liff

Japanese Studies Sunday, August 19, 2018

Japan's national flag is seen in front of containers and cranes at an industrial port in Tokyo, Japan, January 25, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Acceptance speech of the Ohira Masayoshi Memorial Prize

Mireya Solís

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a bilateral meeting at the G7 Summit in in Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada, June 8, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis - HP1EE681NL95S

Alienating our allies is not normal behavior. That’s not how friends treat friends.

Amanda Sloat and Julie Smith

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

On May 14, 2018, Katharine H.S. Moon discussed U.S. foreign policy issues in Asia with Ambassador (Ret.) Nicholas Burns and Sheila A. Smith (Council on Foreign Relations) at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, as part of the Kennedy Library Forums series.

Katharine H.S. Moon

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, Massachusetts

Association of East Asian Relations President Chiou I-jen (3rd-L) and Japanese Representative to Taiwan Mikio Numata (3rd-R) attend a name-changing ceremony of the Japan's de facto embassy from "The Interchange Association, Japan" to "Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association"

Strong but constrained Japan-Taiwan ties

Jeffrey W. Hornung

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

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