Yuriko Koike, Japan's former defense minister and national security adviser, was Chairwoman of Japan's Liberal Democrat Party and currently is a member of the National Diet.
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Yuriko Koike
Commentaries by Yuriko Koike
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Northeast Asia on the Brink
TOKYO – China’s refusal to attend this year’s summit with Japan and South Korea as scheduled comes at a trying moment for all three countrie…
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Asia and a Post-American Middle East
KUWAIT CITY – When the consequences of the United States-led invasion of Iraq ten years ago are fully assessed, the importance of the subseq…
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The Pope of Japanese Finance
TOKYO – While the world focuses on the gathering of cardinals in Rome to choose a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, a similar conclave is unde…
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Farewell Hillary, For Now
TOKYO – F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said that “there are no second acts in American lives.” Hillary Clinton’s stunning (and, I trust, unfin…
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North Korea’s Blackmail Missile
TOKYO – The Unha-3 rocket launched from Sohae in North Korea on the morning of December 12 passed through Japanese air space over the island…
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Kowtow or Cooperation in Asia?
TOKYO – When an American president’s first overseas trip following his re-election is to Asia, one can be sure that something big is afoot i…
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The Dear Sister Disappears
TOKYO – The Korean peninsula is stirring. In December, South Koreans will go to the polls to choose President Lee Myung-bak’s successor in w…
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East Asia’s Patriots and Populists
TOKYO – When faced with domestic worries, politicians often resort to foreign diversions – a simple axiom that is highly useful in assessing…
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Japan’s Fiscal Crisis Comes of Age
TOKYO – Has Japan’s political paralysis finally lifted? The recent agreement, after a long debate, between the government and leading opposi…
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South Korea’s Budding Femocracy
TOKYO – This is a year of presidential elections worldwide, and the last to take place – on December 19 – will be in South Korea. That ballo…
Asia and a Post-American Middle East
Wong Hoong Hooi: Quoted from the article "China's dependence on Middle East energy imports means that it is almost certain to seek to fill any regional security vacuum." Quite a leap, even for you, Ms Koike ? Japa…
Asia and a Post-American Middle East
S.Mahmud Ali: As ever, Ms. Koike articulates a cogently argued case for paying attention to the oil-hub of the world in the possibly imminent period of reduced US strategic engagement. Her clearly expressed fears o…