The International Herald Tribune: U.S.-Japanese relations have come a long way in the 60 years since the end of World War II, with Japan now showing a growing desire to be treated like a “normal” country when it comes to collective security arrangements and shouldering more of the burden for its own defense. Prime Minister […]
From The Boston Globe: IT IS not easy these days to picture the US in the role of relationship therapist, patiently repairing the dangerous rift that has been growing between China and Japan. But that is exactly what those two major Asian powers need. Few things could be more vital for global peace and prosperity […]
From The People’s Daily Online: On October 29, Japan-US “2+2” Security Consultation Committee held a meeting in Washington, which reached an agreement on the adjustment of US troops stationed in Japan and the share of duties between Japan’s Self-Defense Forces and US troops, and published the report entitled “US-Japan alliance: For future reforms and regrouping”. […]
From the National Review Online: There’s a lot of bad political and economic blood developing between China and Japan, and China and the U.S. None of it is going to lead to any good. Anti-Japanese demonstrations have broken out in Shanghai and Hong Kong, with Chinese authorities looking on with winks and nods. The Chinese […]
From The Guardian Unlimited: Escalating tension with China, violently illustrated by renewed anti-Japanese protests in Shanghai and other big cities at the weekend, is increasing pressure on Tokyo to expand its military capabilities and back a deepening strategic alliance with the US reaching from east Asia to the Gulf. Japan’s pacifist postwar constitution restricts its […]
From The Wall Street Journal, via A Glimpse of the World: Japan and China have been at each others’ throats for centuries over who dominates the Western Pacific, and particularly Taiwan and Korea. Like the long-seated rivalry between France and Britain in Europe, China, as the continental power, and Japan, as the island power, have […]
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