Japan

Trade Coalitions of the Willing

Forget about the WTO. Here's how Obama is about to change the game on free trade.

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | MARCH 18, 2013

Time Is Running Out on North Korea

Congress needs to make Pyongyang pay a price for its recklessness.

BY SEN. ROBERT MENENDEZ | MARCH 7, 2013

Camelot in Tokyo

Can Caroline Kennedy shake up Japan’s sexist politics?

BY COCO MASTERS | MARCH 6, 2013

Handle with Care

Japan is Washington's most important Asian ally. But in some ways it's also the trickiest.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The World’s Best Post Offices

The much-maligned U.S. Postal Service stacks up surprisingly well in international rankings.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | FEBRUARY 7, 2013

China and Japan's Wikipedia War

How a showdown over a group of remote islands in the East China Sea is heating up online.

BY PETE HUNT | FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Saying UnSorry

Will Japan's new prime minister really take back his country's apology for World War II?

BY ROBERT WHITING | JANUARY 30, 2013

A Maritime Balkans of the 21st Century?

East Asia is a tinderbox on water.

BY KEVIN RUDD | JANUARY 30, 2013

Rising Sun

What if Japan actually gets its economic act together?

BY ROBERT DUJARRIC | JANUARY 14, 2013

9 Stories That Will Move Markets in 2013

From the U.S. deficit to Mideast turmoil, the issues that could have the biggest impact on the global economy in the coming year.

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | DECEMBER 24, 2012

A Line in the Sea

Is Japan’s new leader going to pick a fight with China?

BY MICHAEL AUSLIN | DECEMBER 18, 2012

Tokyo Hawks

Meet the conservatives who could soon run Japan.

BY JEFF KINGSTON | DECEMBER 14, 2012

5 Reasons the Japanese Elections Matter

The results of Sunday's contest could rock the global economy and destabilize Asia. Maybe the world should pay attention?

BY MICHAEL CUCEK | DECEMBER 14, 2012

The Yakuza Lobby

How Japan's murky underworld became the patron and power broker of the ruling party that intended to clean up politics.

BY JAKE ADELSTEIN | DECEMBER 13, 2012

Ripe for Rivalry

Has Asia's moment of reckoning finally arrived?

BY VICTOR D. CHA | DECEMBER 12, 2012

The 'Grexits' of 2013

The four geopolitical buzzwords that could be just around the corner.

BY IAN BREMMER | DECEMBER 2012

Getting Rebalancing Right

Four key issues that will define President Obama's second-term pivot to Asia.

BY MICHELE A. FLOURNOY, ZIAD HAIDER | NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Turning Japanese

Is this the end of the South Korean miracle?

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The Angry Pacific

Why the United States is not ready for conflict in Asia.

BY MICHAEL J. MAZARR | NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Those Islands Belong to Taiwan

The Republic of China's foreign minister lays out the case for Taiwanese sovereignty over the Diaoyutai Islands.

BY YUNG-LO LIN | OCTOBER 18, 2012

Solving the Okinawa Problem

How many Marines do we still need in Japan?

BY MIKE MOCHIZUKI, MICHAEL O'HANLON | OCTOBER 12, 2012

The Zero Bound

Japan’s economy is stuck in a trap from which there is no clear escape. Is this what America’s future looks like?

BY TIM DUY | OCTOBER 11, 2012

The Big Bang Theory of Education

Authoritarian countries don't seem to be doing well at the knowledge business. That's probably no accident.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | OCTOBER 11, 2012

The Asian Cold War

China and Japan's island spat is much more than a battle over a bunch of uninhabited rocks. And it won't be ending anytime soon.

BY MICHAEL AUSLIN | OCTOBER 4, 2012

Rock Fight

Japan could win a war for the Senkaku islands, but it wouldn't be easy. And certainly not without U.S. help.

BY JAMES HOLMES | SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The Sino Stranglehold

How badly could the Chinese protests hurt Japan's economy?

BY JUNE TEUFEL DREYER | SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

China's Brainwashed Youth

The protests against Japan didn't get us our islands back, but they made one thing clear: The people are puppets of the Chinese Communist Party.

BY QI GE | SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The Problem with Patriotism

The dispute over islands in the East China Sea is stirring up nationalist passions in the region. That doesn't bode well for the future of democracy.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The Dragon Roars

Anti-Japan demonstrations break out in Beijing as anger over a territorial dispute grows.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Dangerous Waters

Why China's dispute with Japan is more dangerous than you think.

BY STEPHANIE KLEINE-AHLBRANDT | SEPTEMBER 17, 2012