After seeing the response to my recent post on the US-Japan alliance, I find it necessary to develop a few ideas further. First, MTC rightly points out that an alliance based on the partnership of Japanese conservatives and their counterparts in Washington is by no means doomed, because the organizations pushing this line “deal death …
Frank Jannuzi, Hitachi fellow, China expert, and Democratic staffer at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (on leave), spoke tonight at Temple University Japan on the second Armitage-Nye Report. I’m not going to give a full summary of his talk — much of it was spelling out the thinking of the report’s drafters and explaining the …
How interesting that on the same day that the US and South Korea conclude a “landmark” trade agreement — legislative approval in both countries pending — the Yomiuri Shimbun runs an editorial looking at the impact of North Korea on the February agreement to dissolve the US-ROK Combined Forces Command, giving primary responsibility for the …
Apologies for the lag in posting; life in Nagata-cho has gotten busy, leaving little time to dash off notes. In any case, I want to call attention to an article in Foreign Affairs by Tufts University professor and blogger Daniel Drezner, called “The New New World Order.” Drezner argues that US foreign policy in recent …
The vice president has swooped in, addressed US navy personnel in Yokosuka, talked and dined with Prime Minister Abe and Foreign Minister Aso (I wonder if Aso had anything to say about the “comfort women” resolution currently being debated in Congress), met with the parents of abductee Yokota Megumi, and is now en route to …
Tobias S. Harris 