Three times in the modern era, Japan has reacted to profound international shifts with a sweeping remake of its foreign policy — in ways that drastically altered global history. The nation is ...

As President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met privately in Tokyo last year, Biden delivered a message that was as strategic as it was genuine.

Seven decades after its surrender ended World War II, Japan took its most significant step away from the pacifist foreign policy that shaped 70 years of its post-war history. Pacifism formed the ...

With Emperor Akihito’s historic abdication approaching, here’s a look at his accomplishments and what to expect from the next emperor, Crown Prince Naruhito.

In a dark museum hall, a seven-year-old girl stared intently at a black-and-white image of corpses strewn haphazardly in a ...

Has Japanese foreign policy changed in the post-Cold War era? On the surface, it appears to have been quite consistent since the end of World War II. It has stressed the U.S.-Japanese security ...

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.

Approaching the 80th anniversary of the war’s end, Tokyo must adopt the right historical perspective.

But the Opium Wars — and even worse, the Japanese invasion in 1937 — demonstrated how China was vulnerable to naval power along its Pacific coast.

Another museum dedicated to the Opium Wars, the Sea Battle Museum, opened nearby in 1999. As it was when the British warships arrived, Guangdong is still the drugs hub of China.