... Korean dossier” and the growing trade deficit between the two countries, and would attempt to demonstrate that Washington today is a hard-line negotiator. South Korea was concerned Trump would denounce the United States–Korea Free Trade Agreement. Japan was worried the President of the United States would force them to enter negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement. Both Seoul and Tokyo feared that Trump, with his harsh rhetoric and unexpected gesticulations, would exacerbate the conflict ...
On September 13, 2017, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) held a round table "Russia — Japan — U.S. Relations in the Asia-Pacific".
On September 13, 2017, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) held a round table "Russia — Japan — U.S. Relations in the Asia-Pacific".
Ivan Timofeev, Director of Programs, ...
On August 2, 2017, RIAC hosted a meeting between Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Tadaatsu Mori, Director of Russian Division, Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
On August 2, 2017, RIAC hosted a meeting between
Andrey Kortunov
, RIAC Director General, and Tadaatsu Mori, Director of Russian Division, Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The sides exchanged opinions on ...
On July 19, Alexander Dynkin, RIAC member, Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, RAS Academician, and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with delegation of deputies from the Japanese House of Councillors visiting Moscow and representing major Japanese political parties.
On July 19, Alexander Dynkin, RIAC member, Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, RAS Academician, and Andrey Kortunov,...
Moscow continues to lose interest in further “bargaining” with Japan
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Moscow
in late April
turned out to be a rather low-key affair, attracting scant attention in both the Japanese and Russian media. Unlike President Putin’s 2016 visit to Japan, which had been repeatedly ...
How can joint economic activity on the Kuril Islands help resolve disputes between Japan and Russia and address the peace treaty issue?
With Russia-Japan relations being all over the news and Shinzo Abe visiting Moscow, future economic cooperation and economic activity on the Kuril Islands is on top of the agenda for both countries....
... events titled “Asian Dialogue” devoted to bilateral and multilateral cooperation of the Asia Pacific states, security problems and a number of the other topics of the regional agenda.
The series of meetings started by a discussion with a Japanese expert Mr. Michito Tsuruoka, Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) of the Ministry of Defense of Japan, Non-Resident Research Fellow of the Tokyo Foundation. On February 20, Mr. Tsuruoka delivered a speech ...
... Director General, met with Kuni Miyake, Foreign Policy President, Canon Institute for Global Studies (
CIGS
).
The parties discussed security and development issues in Northeast Asia, the relations within Russia-China-U.S. triangle and prospects of Russia-Japan cooperation in various spheres.
Hideaki Ishii, advisor, Japan's embassy to Russia, participated in the discussion.
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 ...
