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Those, mostly in Japan, who expected that the two leaders would, at one stroke, resolve the decades-old territorial dispute, were disappointed. In another disappointment, Putin politely declined to bathe with Abe in Nagato’s famed hot springs, subtly signaling that ...
On December 15–16, Vladimir Putin visited Japan. The meetings with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held in Nagato (Yamaguchi Prefecture) and Tokyo resulted in several important agreements, indicating the progress in the long-standing dispute settlement. Dmitry Streltsov comments on Vladimir ...
Report #26 / 2016 The Arctic’s growing geopolitical and geoeconomic significance against the background of global climate change determines the interest of non-Arctic players to the region. In 2013 India, China, Republic of Korea, Japan and Singapore became observers to the Arctic Council. The Report examines non-regional actors’ interests in the Arctic, their policy frameworks in the region and principal areas of Arctic studies. Authors also explore the Asian states’ positions ...
Emperor Akihito's Abdication Easier Said Than Done On July 13, 2016 major Japanese media reported that Emperor Akihito had privately expressed a wish to abdicate the throne in the next few years. What followed was a storm of mostly sympathetic media commentary focusing on the monarch's deteriorating health and advanced age....
... General Andrey Kortunov , Fyodor Lukyanov , Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine and Chairman of Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and Dmitry Trenin , Director of Moscow Carnegie Center, visited the residence of Japan’s Ambassador to Russia to meet with Deputy Vice-Minister for Foreign Policy Kimihiro Isikane who is in Moscow on a brief visit. Moderated by Ambassador Toehisa Kodzuki, the above participants, Japanese Foreign Ministry officials and Moscow-based ...
The visit by US President Barack Obama to Hiroshima was unprecedented in many respects. Former President Jimmy Carter, out of office by then, visited the city in 1983, and US Ambassador to Japan John Roos was the first US official to visit he memorial to the victims of the A-bomb in 2010. Secretary of State John Kerry laid flowers at the monument to the victims at the same memorial in April 2016. As to Barack Obama himself, in a May 2009 ...
... – a superpower that acts as a military and political rival having a comparable capacity. They tend to agree in Washington that China is emerging (or, possibly, has already emerged) as such a rival. Game plan REUTERS/Tim Kelly Nikolai Murashkin: Japan–US Union and Southeast Asia: Getting closer to cement the status quo? The Asia–Pacific Region is not running short of highly explosive contradictions. The scenario for the two-day simulation that was organized at Chatham House in early ...
As French publicist Alphonse Karr fairly put it, “the more it changes, the more it’s the same thing.” The logic of maintaining the status quo by seeking changes as the core idea of the convergence between the Japan–US alliance and Southeast Asia can be discovered in the recently published report by the Hawaii-based East-West Center US-Japan Relations and Southeast Asia. Meeting Regional Demands. As it follows from the title of the report and its message,...
Talking about what Japan should expect when a new president comes into the White House, a well-known Russian orientalist and a former Russian Ambassador to Japan, Alexander Panov, spoke to Sputnik. “Trump said that the United States must defend Japan and even start ...
... middle class and intensified tensions in the South China Sea, relations between Asian countries appear to be a key factor in shaping modern global politics and the architecture of international cooperation within the Asia-Pacific region. In its turn, the Japan-ASEAN axis, apart from being one of the most institutionalized and least conflict-prone in East Asia, retains the potential for further political and economic development involving external players among others. The current state and prospects for ...
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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