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December 9, 2014 Open Forum
The New Fulcrum of Asia: The Indo-Japan Entente and the Rise of China

A new and potentially pivotal alignment of India and Japan is forming in response to China’s rise. This still informal security and military partnership implicitly premised on countering […]

John W. Garver

1962 War, Abe Shinzo, Arms sales, India, military exercises, ODA, Security alignment, war memories
August 11, 2014 Topics of the Month
Japanese Politics Concerning Collective Self-Defense

This article is available in hardcopy & eBook format at the following site: http://www.palgrave.com/kr/book/9781137541703

Hosoya Yuichi*

Abe Shinzo, collective self-defense, constitutional reinterpretation, New Komeito, public opinion
April 11, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (April 2014)

February and March 2014 saw Japan much more isolated than at any point since the US occupation, but the shallowness and myopia of Japan’s media coverage stood out […]

Editorial Staff

Abe Shinzo, international society, Park Geun-hye, public opinion war, reparations, trilateral summit, Ukraine
March 25, 2014 National Commentaries
Circling the Square: History and Alliance Management

This article is available in hardcopy & eBook format at the following site: http://www.palgrave.com/kr/book/9781137541703

Lee Chung Min*

50th Anniversary of Normalization, Abe Shinzo, historical revisionism, Park Geun-hye, public opinion, trilateral summit
February 7, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (February 2014)

This has been one of the richest periods for Japanese media coverage in memory. In covering Biden’s early December travel through the region at a time of renewed […]

Editorial Staff

Abe Shinzo, collective defense, Jang Song-Thaek, propaganda war, the China Dream, Yachi Shotaro, Yasukuni Shrine
January 27, 2014 Topics of the Month
Japan-South Korea Relations – 1

This article is available in hardcopy & eBook format at the following site: http://www.palgrave.com/kr/book/9781137541703

Park Cheol Hee*

Abe Shinzo, comfort women, Dokdo /Takeshima, Park Geun-hye, Summit, Yasukuni Shrine
January 27, 2014 Topics of the Month
TPP – 1

Japan and the United States in the Transpacific Partnership: Costs, Benefits, and the Politics of Getting to Yes   The TPP has risen from modest origins as an […]

William W. Grimes

Abe Shinzo, model of economic governance, third arrow, Trans-Pacific Partnership, US Congress
November 22, 2013 National Commentaries
Japanese Perspective

"China and International Law/Norms: A Japanese Perspective" Signs of China respecting and complying with international law and norms are mixed at best. Assuming that international law and norms […]

Soeya Yoshihide*

Abe Shinzo, East China Sea, International relations theory, National Security Liberal international order, proactive pacifism, South China Sea, unilateralism, value diplomacy
November 22, 2013 Review Article
New South Korean Academic Writings on Contemporary Japan and Japanese-Korean Relations

South Korean academic writings of 2013 provide a useful window through which students of Japan worldwide can observe Japan and Japanese-Korean relations. So far this year, I found […]

Kim Jiyoung*

Abe Shinzo, comfort women, lack of common goals, military power, threat perceptions
October 7, 2013 National Commentaries
Japanese Perspective: Complacency and Indecisiveness in Japan’s New One-Party Dominance and Foreign Policy

This article is available in hardcopy & eBook format at the following site: http://www.palgrave.com/kr/book/9781137541703

Nakano Koichi*

Abe Shinzo, complacency, indecisiveness, LDP fragility, one-party dominance, US response to rightward drift