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Quad momentum continues
The Tokyo Quad summit shows the group is maturing, but the real tests are still to come writes Purnendra Jain.
Japan’s Security Outlook: Moving beyond thinking to doing
In 2022, Japan and China mark 50 years since diplomatic 'normalisation'. Nobushige Takamizawa writes the milestone comes amid a growing array of regional security challenges that require Tokyo to re-examine potential threats from conflict over Taiwan to cyber attacks and act urgently to strengthen its capacity to respond.
As Tokyo sharpens its economic security strategy, has Seikei Bunri run its course?
Japan's economic security strategy, influenced by the high politics of technology and its influence on geopolitics and national security, is now evolving due to the current US-China strategic competition, writes Dr Titli Basu.
Kishida – 1, Democracy – 0; What Kishida's victory says about the state of democracy in Japan
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida performed well in his first electoral test, securing an absolute majority. But Rikki Kersten writes the election result highlights the lack of competition in Japanese democracy and voter disenchantment with the ways of the old guard in the dominant Liberal Democratic Party.
Delivering Abe's legacy: the raison d'être of the Kishida regime
Japan's ruling party has chosen a new Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, who has immediately sought his own mandate by calling elections for 31 October. But writes Rikki Kersten, the quiet winner from Japan’s latest political upheaval is the man who held the job longer than any other, Shinzo Abe.