Japan

Japan Likely to Approve ‘Morning After Pill’

Over-the-counter emergency contraceptives likely available early next year

Sep 25

Japan’s Alaska LNG Buy: Politics Over Need

Tokyo bends a trade knee to Donald Trump

Sep 18

Japan After Ishiba

No easy avenues

Sep 18

Can The US-Japan Trade Deal Save Ishiba?

For now, maybe, but Japan may return to revolving-door premiers

Jul 25

Japan's Upper House Polls: LDP-Komeito on Shaky Ground

PM Ishiba hearing footsteps

Jul 18

Japan’s Nuclear Resurgence: Safer Alternatives

Earthquake predictions mean reactor reactivations need a rethink

Jan 27

Japan-US Relations: Questions Cloud the Future

A politically crippled Ishiba initially rebuffed in Washington

Jan 21

MAGA Gathers Clouds Over Seoul, Tokyo

Trump’s announced isolationism threatens tripartite security arrangement

Dec 15, 2024

Japan’s New Whaling Supership Sets Sail

At odds with the rest of the world, Japan hews to its historic past

Nov 23, 2024

Japan’s Ishiba and his Military Ambitions

His Asian NATO plan is a nonstarter but there are other gambits

Oct 10, 2024

The Tests For Japan’s Incoming Prime Minister

Ishiba will have to hit the ground running as he doesn’t have the luxury of time

Sep 30, 2024

Japan’s ‘Digital Deficit’ a National Security Issue

US Tech giants dominate the field, raising economic issues

Aug 29, 2024

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