By Takahiro Motegi — Papua New Guinea (PNG) turned down the United States, Japan, and Australia in November 2018, when they offered to build a submarine cable network connecting PNG to the global network. The offer was expected to be…
By Stephanie Segal — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan made news at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month when he announced Japan’s aspiration to make the G20 summit in Osaka a launch pad for “world-wide data governance.” This is…
By Shin Ito — Recent developments have demonstrated that even founding members of the Bretton Woods regime are willing act against the values of “liberalism, multilateralism, and rule of law,” — which are the basis of the global economic and…
By John Hemmings — This year has been marked by the return of British naval power to the Indo-Pacific. For the first time since 2013, the United Kingdom (UK) deployed warships to the region, not only consecutively deploying three vessels…
By Sophie Osborn — Earlier this month, a record number of women were sworn into the new U.S. Congress. Globally this seems to be a time of change for women in politics, with one notable exception: Japan. On October 2,…
By Matthew P. Goodman & Ann Listerud — The United States and Japan are scheduled to launch formal trade negotiations soon. The precise timing is unclear: although a statutory 30-day waiting period after publication of the U.S. negotiating objectives ended on January…
By Michael Green & Nicholas Szechyeni — Today Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan won a third term as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and is on track to remain in power for another three years. Abe…
By Victor Cha, Sue Mi Terry, and Michael Green — The third inter-Korean summit is taking place this week from September 18 to 20 in Pyongyang, North Korea. The two leaders, President Moon Jae-in of South Korea and Chairman Kim…
In this episode, we tackle Japan’s relationships with the European Union and Russia in tandem. How will BREXIT affect EU-Japan and Japan-UK relations? What does the new EU-Japan FTA deal mean for the Japanese economy? Will Japan ever regain control…
In this episode, we discuss the future of defense innovation in the U.S.-Japan alliance with the specter of a rising China on the horizon. CSIS 2018 Strategic Japan Fellow Dr. Satoru Mori, a professor at Hosei University in Japan, joins…