It may be too early to declare that the Obama administration and the Hatoyama cabinet have successfully managed the transition from LDP to DPJ, but this week was clearly a step in the right direction. At the start of the week, Foreign Minister Okada Katsuya and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met in New York …
Princeton’s G. John Ikenberry has a long guest post at the Washington Note addressing Kishore Mahbubani’s arguments in The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East. Not having read Mr. Mahbubani’s book yet, I can’t speak directly to his argument, but I do want to address the points raised by …
So reports Jiji regarding the meeting between President Bush and Prime Minister Abe scheduled for the end of this month during Japan’s Golden Week holidays. This is not altogether surprising; despite Ambassador Schieffer’s voicing concerns about Abe’s response to the congressional comfort women resolution (mentioned in this post), I would be shocked if the issue …
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Tobias S. Harris 