Territorial dispute blocks contacts that could have vitalized economies of Hokkaido and the Russian Far East For almost 60 years, Moscow’s large embassy near central Tokyo has been under siege. Tokyo demands the return of some islands it lost to Moscow at the end of the war. In support of

Australia’s relations with China were always prickly.  Now they are slipping into farce.  In 2014 both claimed a “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.” Now, mistranslations and distortions of Chinese statements, deliberate or otherwise, are allowed constantly to poison relations between two countries. An example of the mistranslation game in action was when Australian

Observers have long seen connections between Japanese political parties and religious groups as dubious if not dangerous TOKYO – Tetsuya Yamagami, the 41-year-old former member of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces who killed Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe last week, said during police interrogation that his motive was Abe’s close relations

For 20 years, the abductee issue has been politically abused, with disastrous results for regional diplomacy and security Tensions are on a high simmer in Northeast Asia as North Korea presses ahead with missile tests. During his recent visit to Tokyo, US President Joe Biden joined the chorus of those

With Australia, India, Japan and US set to meet in Tokyo to collectively counter China, it’s not clear Beijing represents a threat By GREGORY CLARK OCTOBER 5, 2020 Memories are short. On Tuesday, as foreign ministers of Australia, Japan, India and the United States meet in Tokyo to form what

It’s not often that a world leader, or anyone else for that matter, gets to celebrate his own funeral.

For old-time Asia watchers there was a delicious irony in the way Chile has decided