Japan
Powder Keg in the Pacific
China is rising -- fast and furious. So why can't the rest of Asia get its act together?
BY ROWAN CALLICK | AUGUST 22, 2012
Tokyo's Hawkish Governor Stirs the Pot
Japan's most volatile politician is making a splash in the South China Sea -- and the Chinese are beating the drums of war.
BY MARK MACKINNON | AUGUST 14, 2012
Japan Awakens
The Japanese military is emerging from decades of pacifism. But do the country's political leaders have the vision and the will to make the country strong again?
BY MICHAEL AUSLIN | MAY 2, 2012
Japan's Enviable Decline
Recently, most of the news coming out of Japan is gloomy -- but the country has more going for it than you'd think.
APRIL 24, 2012
The Enemy Within
Since the end of the Cold War, America has been on a relentless search for enemies. But the real dangers are at home.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | MAY/JUNE 2012
Smart Sanctions: A Short History
How a blunt diplomatic tool morphed into the precision-guided measures we know today.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | MAY/JUNE 2012
The World in Photos This Week
North Korea launches a dud, a fragile cease-fire holds in Syria, and Rick Santorum bows out.
APRIL 13, 2012
Japan's Nuclear Cabal
Japan's public is squarely against going back to nuclear power. So why is the government pushing so hard to get the country's nuclear plants back online?
BY NOBUO FUKUDA | MARCH 9, 2012
Why the Chinese Save
Contrary to conventional wisdom, China's high savings rate has everything to do with policy and institutions. Culture, not so much.
BY SHELDON GARON | JANUARY 19, 2012
Debating the Pacific Century
In the November issue of Foreign Policy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argues that it's time for the United States to move on from its costly wars in the Middle East, and make a strategic "pivot" to Asia. FP asked four smart observers to take the measure of Clinton's plans for engagement in the Far East.
OCTOBER 14, 2011
Think Again: Nuclear Power
Japan melted down, but that doesn't mean the end of the atomic age.
BY CHARLES D. FERGUSON | NOVEMBER 2011
Atomic Dogs
Why can't the world's nuclear energy watchdog do anything about Fukushima or Iran's weapons program? I went to find out.
BY KONSTANTIN KAKAES | SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
Megatrends That Weren't
A look at yesterday's Next Big Things, from the Japanese rising sun to Dow 36,000.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | SEPT/OCT 2011
All the World's Traders and All the World's Yen…
Traders react to the plummeting market on trading-room floors around the world.
AUGUST 8, 2011
The Post-Fukushima Arms Race?
The ironic consequence of Japan's disaster might be a more dangerous global nuclear landscape.
BY HENRY SOKOLSKI | JULY 29, 2011
The Forgetting Stone
"No matter how many years may pass, do not forget this warning": A poet’s look at Japan’s centuries of rebuilding over fault-lines, from FP’s latest ebook.
BY MARIKO NAGAI | JULY 27, 2011
Hot Air Zone
Naoto Kan’s statement taking on Japan’s nuclear industry isn’t likely to accomplish anything.
BY ROBERT DUJARRIC | JULY 14, 2011
Houston, We Have a Problem
The end of the space shuttle program is a big step back for the United States, and a giant leap forward for everyone else.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JULY 7, 2011
Japan's Chernobyl
Haunting images of abandoned towns and devastation left in the wasteland of Fukushima.
APRIL 12, 2011
The Island Nation
Japan will rebuild, but not how you think. And 20 years of misread history holds the clues.
BY PETER TASKER | MARCH 24, 2011
Nuclear Winner
Environmentalist icon turned nuclear-power booster Stewart Brand tells Foreign Policy why, even after the Fukushima disaster, he thinks nuclear is the energy of the future.
INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 22, 2011
Meltdowns and Misinformation
What do we actually know about Japan's nuclear crisis?
BY JOSEPH CIRINCIONE | MARCH 18, 2011
Japan's Black Swan
The earthquake changed everything. What will Tokyo do next?
BY ROBERT MADSEN, RICHARD J. SAMUELS | MARCH 16, 2011
Leaks in All the Wrong Places
Why the Japanese public has good reason to distrust official information.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | MARCH 14, 2011
Seismic Inequality
Rich countries have gotten very good at keeping people alive in earthquakes. But that doesn't mean poor countries should try to emulate them.
BY CHARLES KENNY | MARCH 14, 2011
How much would a no-fly zone over Syria cost?
BY KEVIN BARON
Cuba's greatest export isn't cigars -- it's doctors
BY ELIAS GROLL
No, the Spanish can't be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Is there a relationship between more women in government and happier mothers?
BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH
Odierno: Sequestration leaves military unprepared for Syria
BY KEVIN BARON
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