Japan
With an eye on Beijing, India and Japan double down
In 1999, India’s then foreign minister, Jaswant Singh, travelled to Tokyo to smooth ruffled feathers after India's nuclear tests of that year. 'Relations between Japan and India…
What is gained by shooting missiles across Japan?
On Tuesday morning, North Korean launched a missile over the southern tip of Hokkaido in northern Japan.
Given the close interdependence of North Korea’s satellite launch program…
Japan’s five years of Abenomics
For many international observers, the Japanese economy is an enigma. On the face of it, the economy has been in bad shape ever since the Japanese stock market began to crash in…
Australia-Japan trade relations: From mines to the lab and back
The stability of Australia’s commercial relationship with Japan conceals some significant developments.
Japan, one of our most dependable customers, was our top export market for…
Economic diplomacy brief: Foreign policy split, ASEAN links and Japan commerce 60 years on
Paper cuts
The prospect of the foreign policy White Paper emerging as a longer term bipartisan framework must be in doubt after the Labor Party demanded this week that its Asian…
Abenomics loses some of its razzle-dazzle
One of the hallmarks of Shinzo Abe’s longevity in power has been his ability to switch back to bread and butter economic issues when he tests the patience of voters with his more…
Abe's troubles at home cause for concern abroad
This month Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) - which is led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe - experienced its first major electoral defeat since Abe’s inauguration in December…
Learning to live with a North Korean ICBM
Last week’s test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) by North Korea raises the time-honored question of East Asian international relations: what to do with a…
Does Abe want to fast track constitutional reform?
Last month Japan’s Shinzo Abe marked a political renaissance that few would have expected when he secured an unusual second go at being prime minister at the 2012 election when…
A neo-nationalist crack in Abe’s grand strategy
As we approach the third month of the Trump Administration, experienced observers of world politics continue to be intrigued, curious and at times perhaps perplexed. Indeed, those…