... any attempts to distort the history of the war. The shared celebration is also a new and major step toward strengthening the Russian-Chinese partnership, trust and friendship.
Commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the defeat of German fascism and Japanese militarism are being held absolutely free from any kind of politicization and are far from a response to the massive anti-Russian campaign unleashed by the West. As a matter of fact, the decision to coordinate the celebrations in principle was ...
The week-long visit to the USA by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has left a quite ambiguous impression. One gets the sense that it was the Americans themselves who most needed this visit. In a situation where the US pivot towards Asia
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proclaimed in 2011 is proceeding much more ...
... atrocious war in modern history of mankind. However, those on the other side also deserve attention. RIAC has approached key foreign policy experts to share their views on how the countries in the former Axis alliance (headed by Germany, Italy, and Japan) view the end of the Second World War. Japan’s role still evokes painful debates among the country's population and political elites. Here are the comments by Ambassador
Alexander Panov
, Chief Researcher at RAS Institute for the U.S. and ...
The Future of Japanese Military Power
The Future of Japanese Military Power
Today, the Asia-Pacific region once again faces the Japanese question: is Japan a peace-broker or peace-breaker? What is the future for Japanese military power? So far, there are two main ...
On the morning of April 15, 2015, the website of the U.S. Department of the Treasury published its Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities
indicator for February, and there was a new name at the top of the list
. After six years, Japan has regained its leading position as the U.S. government’s primary borrower. The country has $1,224.4 billion, followed by China with $1,223.7 billion. Together, they make up 39.7 per cent of the total $6,162.8 billion held by foreign countries ...
... build six units in India to suspend the implementation of their projects.
Narendra Modi’s atomic diplomacy
However, neither the warm relations between Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe, nor the common vision of foreign threats nor the interest of Japanese companies faced with falling demand for their equipment on the domestic market after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, forced Japan to conclude such an agreement with a country that had not adhered to the NPT.
At the beginning of his ...
On February 12, 2015 the residence of Japanese Ambassador to Russia Tikahito Harada played host to a meeting between a group of representatives from the Russian International Affairs Council and Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan Shinsuke Sugiyama to discuss pressing issues relating ...
The struggle for offshore resources has intensified in East Asia, and Japan-China tensions seem of particular concern. Due to its alliance treaty with Japan, the United States is also involved in the conflict. The Japanese Ministry of Defense has, for the first time ever, qualified the situation around the Senkaku (Diaoyu) ...
Japan’s Ukrainian principles
Japan joined the sanctions policy initiated by the West against Russia from day one of the escalations in the situation in Ukraine. The first three packages of Japanese sanctions were aimed not so much at punishing Russia,...
Notwithstanding a quite ambitious economic plan of reforms initiated by the Prime Minister Shinzō Abe Sind known as “Abenomics”, mid-November 2014 has shown that Japanese economy is not getting better. The Prime Minister Abe has turned to extreme measures – dissolution of the parliament with the new elections set for December 2014. Once ranking among the top three most innovative and strongest economies,...
