Not Dead Yet: TPP.2 Could Be Bigger and Better
Autocrats everywhere will have been inspired by Xi Jinping’s recent move to tear up the rulebook and set up a dictatorship.
Arigato, Trump-san: Japan’s Wake-up Call
The end of American exceptionalism means the end of Japanese exceptionalism too. Constitutional reform is just the first step…
Review: Asia’s Reckoning
“If the Japanese had committed such an act, it would be remembered as the prime atrocity of the war, dwarfing even the Nanjing massacre”
Abe’s Next Move: Stoking a Mini-Boom
A glance at the Japanese banking system – and indeed at any bank branch, with its ranks of paper-shufflers – shows how much room there is for improvement.
Electoral Affinities: How Abe Could Win by Losing
Abe has got himself into a pickle by agreeing to a deeply unpopular hike in the consumption tax
The Asian Missile Crisis: the Message from Machiavelli
Even by the standards of the regime’s bellicose rhetoric, threats of outright genocide are extreme…
Can Abe Get His Mojo Back?
“Opposition” does not refer to minority parties in parliament, who remain irrelevant, but hardliners in the bureaucracy and their supporters
“I M Fired” – How the Asian Financial Crisis Helped Asia and Harmed the West
The ensuing collapse in the West’s financial credibility was equivalent to the Iraq War’s effect on its strategic credibility
The Year of Scandal: How the Fate of Abe and Park Affect Regional Security
With her distrust of nuclear power and support for medical marijuana, Akie Abe constituted an “intra-family opposition party.”
Assassin’s Creed: North Korea at the Brink
The lesson the North Koreans have learned is that bluster, brutality and blackmail make for a winning strategy.