Implementing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s vision of a more regionally and internationally engaged foreign policy is essential to the future of Japan and the region. Abe has distanced his ...

Section 2 covers the changes in the post-Plaza Accord foreign exchange policy and recent discussions ... status and challenges are included in conclusion. The dawn of the 21st century was also a ...

On February 2, 2003, the political scientist John J. Mearsheimer published a co-authored op-ed in The New York Times that lambasted the Bush Administration’s case for invading Iraq. In a carefully ...

Michael Green’s examination of Japan’s foreign and security policy in the 21st century elegantly evaluates what was an eight-year effort under Abe Shinzo during his second stint as prime minister to ...

EVER since Japan's entrance into the family of modern nations in the middle of the nineteenth century ... phase of our policy cannot be appreciated unless we first understand the circumstances in ...

examines the Japanese industrial and fiscal-monetary policies and evaluates its achievements and limits from a historical perspective. Although the period that was also referred to as the "lost decade ...

Foreign-policy types never tire of arguing about the great works of strategy: Clausewitz, Machiavelli, Sun Tzu and others. Just recently, wonks clashed over whether Thucydides’ “History of the ...

Below, we review the structure and initiatives now shaping Japan’s policymaking. Primary Actors in Japanese Semiconductor Policy Japanese government officials, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's cabinet, ...