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March 19, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (April 2018 with Focus on Korea)

Not only was Abe battered by a domestic scandal, his foreign policy was rocked by diplomacy, history, and trade shocks. The North Korean presence at the Winter Olympics […]

Editorial Staff

“smile diplomacy”, comfort women, Dokdo /Takeshima, Pyeongchang Olympics, Six-Party Talks, Yasukuni
March 1, 2018 Open Forum
With Friends Like These: Japan-ROK Cooperation and US Policy

Although they share a common ally, history and politics keep Japan and South Korea at arm’s length and severely limit their defense cooperation. Since at least the mid-1990s, […]

Eric Heginbotham

comfort women, Dokdo /Takeshima, GSOMIA, Three Eyes, Yasukuni
August 29, 2016 Special Forum
Japanese views of Korean history

For many Japanese, Korean history—including the history of South Korean ties to the outside world—is viewed through the lens of the country’s modern relations with Japan. Whether looking […]

Alexis Dudden

comfort women, Dokdo /Takeshima, history problems", Kono Declaration, Revisionism, ryodo, textbooks, Yasukuni
August 29, 2016 Special Forum
Chinese views of Japanese history

Sino-Japanese relations have been on a downswing in recent years, despite resumed meetings between the leaders Xi Jinping and Abe Shinzo since late 2014. Strategic and territorial differences […]

Jin Linbo

East China Sea, militarism, Revisionism, South China Sea, Twenty-One Demands, WWII, Yasukuni
November 6, 2013 Open Forum
ROK and US Views on the Foreign Policy of the Abe Administration

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

Bong Youngshik*

deference diplomacy, Dokdo /Takeshima, Japan-US alliance, mutual abandonment, Park Geun-hye, rebalancing’s impact, Shinzo Abe, Yasukuni