Abstract The Sino-Japanese dispute over the arrest of the Chinese fishing trawler captain is the most serious bilateral incident since 1952. Japan took an action…
Country or Region: Japan
Abstract China’s rise and clear ambition to change Asia poses both tactical and strategic questions, long neglected in Japan. Tactically, territorial challenges can be countered…
Abstract To satisfy its demand for energy, Japan continues to rely heavily on oil imported from the Middle East. Increasing geopolitical uncertainty in the region…
Abstract Rarely before has such a large and potentially consequential country tried to reform itself politically and economically as Myanmar is now attempting, following an…
Abstract How does America’s greater focus on Asia impact the security policies of Japan and Australia? How does it change the nature of the Japan-US-Australia…
Abstract The paper aims to examine economic interdependence and balancing power politics, and their mixed implications for regional institution building in East Asia based on…
Abstract Over the last decade, essentially since the Asian crisis of 1997–98, the economic integration of Northeast Asia has been marked by three overarching trends.…
Abstract This article addresses a profoundly curious question of why Korea and Japan conflict with each other despite deepening ties and growing transactions. In contrast…
Abstract Japan has long played the role as the main operating base for Korean contingencies. It has also provided rear-area logistic support to the US…
Abstract As the regionalism in East Asia has largely been characterized by networks of bilateral relations, the linkages between regional factors and bilateral relations in…
Abstract With Japan viewing Southeast Asia as its natural sphere of influence and a region of immense economic complementarities and potential, it was no surprise…
Abstract The controversy in the Unites States on how to deal with the “fiscal cliff” revealed not just a deep ideological difference between the Democratic…
Abstract The South China Sea (SCS) territorial disputes have become one of the most significant security challenges in the East Asian Supercomplex (EAS). Described in…
Abstract On the occasion of President Hu Jintao’s visit to Japan in May 2008, the two sides issued a joint statement and agreed to promote…
Abstract The defects of the current international financial system are creating tremendous distortions in the economies of East Asia. For the time being, most of…
