India and Japan Should Cooperate to Fill Asia’s Security Void
The United States increasingly looks inward, raising questions about its commitment to world security as the only super power. Accordingly, Japan is compelled to rethink its own grand strategy for …
High Hopes for the New Tibetan Prime Minister- in-Exile
It was a long, hard trip to visit the new Tibetan government-in-exile - but it was worth it. I left Tokyo September 22 to visit the village of Ganchen Kyisong, the home of the Tibetan governmen…
Can Japan Survive without Nuclear Power Plants?
Yuko Endo, mayor of Kawauchi in the northeast prefecture of Fukushima, has vowed to bring all of the evacuated residents of his irradiated village back home by next March. He made the pledge before…
Top Priority for Japan’s New Prime Minister: Reconstruction of Northeastern Japan and Development of Anti-Disaster Infrastructure
An editorial headlined “Next, Mr. Noda” was carried in the September 6 edition of the International Herald Tribune. It was written with a dispassionate eye on the Japanese political scene, which ha…
Birds of a Feather: The Democratic Parties of Japan and South Korea
A referendum foretelling the political prospects of South Korea was held in the South Korean capital of Seoul on August 24. The point at issue: whether or not school lunches at the elementary and m…
