Summary The United States has maintained military forces in the Asia Pacific region since the end of World War II and its alliances with key…
Country or Region: Japan
Abstract The traditional underpinnings of international relations in Asia are undergoing profound change, and the rise of China is a principal cause. Other causes include…
Summary Japan in a Dynamic Asia examines a new phenomenon in Japanese foreign policy: Japan’s increasing activism under the Koizumi administration. Behind this policy shift…
Summary Often lost in the discussion about the nuclear crisis are its regional dynamics. Since 2002, China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea have struggled to…
Summary East Asia is now the world’s economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly…
Summary As a significant component of world politics, Asia Pacific confronts many major issues. This is a region in which the United States, China, and…
Summary Japan is the world’s No. 2 economy, greater in GDP than Britain and France together and almost double that of China. It is also…
Summary Something new is happening across East Asia. A part of the world long noted for its lack of internal economic links is discussing regional…
Abstract Fifteen years ago, Japan appeared to be an emerging new center of regional and global power. Although constrained from exercising military force by its…
Summary When Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo harbor in July 1853, opening Japan to the West, a century and a half of economic, cultural,…
Summary This is the first comprehensive analysis of the ways in which changes in the geopolitical context have altered the nature of the long-stable U.S.-Japan…
Summary From the oilfields of Saudi Arabia to the Nile delta, from the shipping lanes of the South China Sea to the pipelines of Central…
Abstract Yasukuni Shrine resonates with talismanic symbolism for both its critics and proponents and that is precisely why it is so controversial within Japan and…
Abstract The U.S. strategy toward Asia in President Barack Obama’s first term features pivoting or rebalancing. This article traces the development of the U.S. pivot…
Abstract In the fall of 2011, the Obama Administration issued a series of announcements indicating that the United States would be expanding and intensifying its…
