It was hard enough for Shigeru Yokota to know that his only daughter Megumi had suddenly disappeared one day in 1977, almost certainly kidnapped off the street like a string of other Japanese by North ...

Eight decades since the end of the Second World War, the US-Japan alliance continues to evolve beyond its Cold War foundations. It is time to bring together a redoubtable defensive alliance that can ...

TOKYO – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his top priority when he meets with President Obama in Washington on Friday will be repairing the U.S.-Japan security alliance. Obama’s priority ought to be ...

The Japan That Can Say No was the title of a once-famous book by a once-rising Japanese politician. Shinzo Abe, the former Japanese prime minister who was assassinated earlier today, bequeaths a much ...

First Donald Trump walked away from a second round of nuclear talks with Kim Jong Un in Vietnam. Now all the traditional powers of northeast Asia—China, Japan, Russia, South Korea—are muscling in to ...