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 ...
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) ...
In early August 2014, PhD student in International Relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland Kazushige Kobayashi published an article on the RIAC website, analyzing the current state of Russian-Japanese relations in the light of events in Ukraine.
Kobayashi’s main conclusion was that Tokyo “is spinning out of Washington’s orbit and pursuing an independent policy toward Moscow.”
The author believes
that Japan’s ...
... Relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland, and a research fellow with the Europe-Asia Programme at the Balkan Security Agenda in Serbia. He holds Bachelor of Economics from Tohoku University in Japan, Master in International Affairs from the Geneva Graduate Institute, and has also studied at University of California at Davis and Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
In the evening of 7 August 2014, Tokyo was struck by a happy ...
... with ultra-nationalists (who call for the restoration of the Japanese Empire), or ultra-leftists (who call for revolution based on the Marxist-Leninist ideology).
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. The Islands are located between Okinawa and Taiwan and are effectively controlled by Japan, but formerly were a part of Chinese territory one thousand years ago.
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. Likewise, the European Union’s new sanctions against Russia should be also understood as a matter of Transatlantic economic relations. A primary reason why the U.S. government is so insistent on a European sanction is that if ...
... Relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland, and a research fellow with the Europe-Asia Programme at the Balkan Security Agenda in Serbia. He holds Bachelor of Economics from Tohoku University in Japan, Master in International Affairs from the Geneva Graduate Institute, and has also studied at University of California at Davis and Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
The downing of the Malaysian MH17 has shaken the whole world....
Japan’s New Defense Policy and the US-Japan Alliance
Japan’s New Defense Policy and the US-Japan Alliance
Since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in December 2012, Japan has been making the headlines of world’s leading media with unprecedented ...
The returning Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) have successfully regain full control over the upper and lower congresses of Japan in July 2013; now they are equipped with an ever-mightier momentum and democratic mandate to push ...
At an international summer program of MGIMO (Russian Foreign Ministry Moscow State Institute of International Relations), more than a few professors mentioned that Russia and Japan are still technically “at the state of war” since there has been no conclusive peace treaty signed after the World War II. The statement brought an apparent surprise to many participants, although a majority of them were students and ...
