Japan is increasingly marking its presence at the table of the Great Game as a significant participant. To be more precise, Japan is returning to the pool of leading world players in which it was in the first half of the last century and which it left in 1945 due to certain circumstances. Roughly the…
The average person wouldn’t so calmly discuss a scenario that could lead to World War III, yet Taiwanese, American, and Japanese representatives seem unfazed about this due to how much they’ve been indoctrinated to believe that their radical political cause of trying to reverse the global systemic transition towards multipolarity is worth risking the future…
Tokyo is experiencing more and more problems as a result of its reckless adherence to Washington’s Russophobic dictates. And as Tokyo continues to adopt new anti-Russian sanctions these problems are rapidly getting more and more serious. For example, Japan has already announced a number of sanctions packages against Russia as a result of the Ukraine…
It might be uncomfortable for India to accept that a partner as trusted as Japan just tried to interfere in its relations with Russia, but that’s the reality as it arguably appears to be given the sequence of events that just transpired. A scandal suddenly erupted within the Quad earlier this week after India refused…
The Japan-Philippines meeting of Foreign and Defence Ministers in the so-called “2+2 format” that took place in Tokyo on April 9 is not an ordinary event in the series of others that shape the current situation in the Indo-Pacific region. First of all, it is worth noting once again the significance of the very presence…
Japan’s future, whether she likes it or not, will be with its East Asian neighbors’ Belt and Road Initiative when the U.S. 7th Fleet scuttles back to Pearl Harbor. Although it is now 20 years since the English edition of my Japan: The Toothless Tiger best seller first appeared, everything that has since happened has…
