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At noon on the 1st of October 2012, the first Osprey V-22 aircraft landed at Futenma Marine Corps Air Station on Japan’s Okinawa Island. The controversial deployment of this ungainly looking aircraft (a hybrid between a helicopter and fixed-wing plane) has exposed tensions between centre and periphery in Japanese politics, revealed major fault-lines in the ...
On November 14, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda announced, all of a sudden, the dissolution of the Lower House (or the House of Representatives) ten months before the expiration of its full term. After the election on December 16, the newly composed house will ...
... time in modern history when political links between Moscow and Tokyo were friendly or partner-like. Since the end of WWII, the Southern Kuril Islands remain the key irritant to their bilateral relations. As a result, much of the potential for Russian-Japanese cooperation remains untapped, even as this cooperation gains ever more new facets, including the issue of the Arctic Ocean. What is Japan doing in the Arctic Ocean? Is it possible to leverage potential cooperation in that region to resolve the ...
Why did the former Japanese Prime Minister visit Moscow? In the third week of February, Moscow received the former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori. The purpose of Mori’s visit, who also delivered a personal letter to Vladimir Putin from Japanese Prime Minister ...
On March 5 at the embassy of Japan in Moscow Andrei Kortunov, RIAC General Director met with Koji Tsuruoka, Japan’s Deputy Foreign Minister, and Tikahito Harada, Japan’s ambassador to Russia. Also present were Evsei Gurvich, head of the Economic Expert Group under the ...
... “naval leader” is to be replaced by a system of rivalry and cooperation among numerous maritime powers, as was the case in the first half of the 20th century. Security Dilemma in the Oceans Photo: Wikipedia.com Hyūga-class helicopter destroyer (Japan) Enhancing the role of maritime powers in the 21st century could entail strengthening multilateral cooperation in collective security and freedom of navigation in the ocean, but it could also exacerbate existing volatility, create new sources of ...
... “Russia's Pacific Future: Solving the Kuril Islands Dispute” produced by Moscow Carnegie Center Director Dmitry Trenin, a RIAC member, and Yuval Weber, a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas. The event attracted attention of Russian, Japanese and Chinese journalists and representatives of research centers including RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations, MGIMO-University, Russian APEC Studies Center, and Macarthur Foundation....
Soft Power in Current Japanese Policies Japan has a significant history of applying soft power since it emerged as a player on the global political stage in the mid-19th century through U.S. efforts to force its inclusion in key processes underpinning international relations....
... maintained by his two predecessors. These considerations apparently laid the foundation for the “strategic patience” policy toward North Korea, which the Obama administration pursued for most of its first term, and which formed the basis for Japan’s restrictive actions. Photo: KRT via AP Video/AP Rocket Launches By North Korea, December 12, 2012 Steps taken in recent months by Washington and Tokyo were aimed at resuming dialogue with the DPRK. People in South Korea expect to see similar ...
A Window of Mutual Goodwill: Japanese-Russian Relations Led by Shinzo Abe, the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) recently won elections to the Diet’s lower house and returned to power, following its drawn out defeat in 2009 at the hands of the Democratic Party of Japan ...
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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