Will Obama Help Change Asia's Racism?
President Obama's visit to Asia showed how long a journey it's been since the 1955 Bandung Conference, the historic meeting of African and Asian states striving for self-determination.
President Obama's visit to Asia showed how long a journey it's been since the 1955 Bandung Conference, the historic meeting of African and Asian states striving for self-determination.
Devin Stewart | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
If Japan truly wants to serve as a "bridge" between the United States and Asia or the West and East, it will need good relations with both sides.
Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 11.05.2009 | Style
We have to say, Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his wife Miyuki seem crazy about each other. The recently elected prime minister has called ...
Joe Cirincione | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
A small group of conservative Japanese defense officials have spread the view that if the United States reduces its nuclear arsenal, then Japan will build its own nuclear bombs.
Huffington Post | Posted 10.09.2009 | Style
Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his wife Miyuki sashayed down the runway at a charity fashion show in Tokyo earlier this week. Miyuki modele...
Nathan Gardels | Posted 11.22.2009 | World
Barroso believes that, after the crash caused by the excesses of unregulated financial markets, globalization requires global governance. Here is what he had to say in advance of the G-20 meeting.
Sheldon Filger | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
With Japan's export machine badly hurt due to the global contraction in trade, the agenda of the new power elite in Tokyo risks a double-dip recession.
AP | MALCOLM FOSTER | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
TOKYO — Japan's parliament named Yukio Hatoyama prime minister Wednesday, as his party took power for the first time ever with promises to reviv...
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
These Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: A New Strategy for Afghanistan and A Rare Bit of Good News Out of Pakistan SI Analysis: The US ...
Nathan Gardels | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
An essay published by Yukio Hatoyama, the soon-to-be prime minister of Japan, has caused a big stir abroad, which in turn caused a bigger stir back in Japan.
Diane Francis | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
The transfer of power in Japan marks a desire on the part of many Japanese voters to move toward Asia and out from under the West's sphere of influence.
nytimes.com | MARTIN FACKLER | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
TOKYO -- Scrambling to mend fences with his country's biggest ally, Japan's next leader, Yukio Hatoyama, told the United States ambassador on Thursday...
Doug Bandow | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
Only slightly less unhappy than the LDP dinosaurs who misruled Japan for so long are U.S. policymakers, who have grown used to Tokyo playing the role of pliant ally, backing American priorities and hosting its bases.
Huffington Post via Reuters | Posted 10.18.2009 | Style
Over the weekend, Japan elected a new prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, and welcomed a new first lady, his wife, Miyuki. The Hatoyamas should make for a...
washingtonpost.com | Blaine Harden | Posted 09.27.2009 | World
TOKYO -- Japanese voters are on the brink of doing something they have not been willing to do in more than half a century: throw the bums out. The opp...
David A. Love | Posted 11.21.2009 | World