Brahma Chellaney
East Asia’s Turning Point
NEW DELHI – Political transitions in East Asia promise to mark a defining moment in the region’s jittery geopolitics. After the ascension in…
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On Sunday, Japanese voters returned Shinzo Abe to the position of prime minister, restoring the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party's control of the country at a challenging time. Faced with a looming recession, rising public debt, and mounting tensions with China, how will the new government's policies affect Japan, Asia, and the world?
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Yuriko Koike
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Masahiro Matsumura
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Joseph S. Nye
Japan’s Nationalist Turn
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Christopher R. Hill
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Ian Bremmer, Susan Schwab
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Masahiro Matsumura
Japan’s Coming Political Earthquake
OSAKA – Japan is now confronting challenges at home and abroad that are as serious as any it has had to face since World War II’s end. Yet t…
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Yuriko Koike
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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Jean Pisani-Ferry
Central Banks on the Offensive?
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Ian Buruma
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TOKYO – They don’t look like much, those few uninhabited rocks in the East China Sea between Okinawa and Taiwan, and a couple of tiny islets…
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