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Official Development Assistance as A Strategy to Strengthen Japan-China Trade Relations
Countries in the world certainly cannot always meet the needs of their own economies; there are countries whose GDP income is still below average,...
Beyond Pride Diplomacy: How Asian Countries Build Their Pro‑LGBTQ Image on the Global Stage
Sneakers Diplomacy in New York
Amid the hustle of the 2024 UN General Assembly, Aiko Zhang—a young non-binary diplomat from Taiwan—chose to wear white sneakers...
Strengthening Japan-ASEAN Food Security: The MIDORI Plan and ASEAN Identity Renewal
On October 4th, 2023, during the 1st Meeting of AJMAF (ASEAN-Japan Ministers of Agriculture and Forestry) in Malaysia, Japan adopted MIDORI, a cooperation plan...
Japan-ASEAN Cooperation on Plastic Waste in the Sea
This article will highlight the long aftermath of the issue of plastic waste in the Indo-Pacific region, where in 2016 six countries in the...
US Trade Wars and Military Globalization Spark Complex Alignments
President Trump’s new round of reciprocal and universal tariffs will escalate trade tensions, lower investment, hit market pricing, distort trade flows, disrupt supply chains,...
Why the US-Japan-ROK Alliance Faces Greater Risk in 2025 Than Cold War Europe
With the growing threat of nuclear conflict in Northeast Asia—driven by North Korea’s ability to strike the U.S. mainland with nuclear missiles—strategic concerns about...
Donald Trump and Quad’s Future
Trump 2.0 is proving consequential for long-standing alliances and multilateral security frameworks. Early this year, the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spelled out...
Transition from Passive to Proactive Diplomacy: Japan’s Strategic Partnership with Africa
Since the end of World War II, Japan has carried out a passive diplomacy strategy on the international stage, this is due to its...
Dynamics of Fukushima Nuclear Waste Policy
Currently, nuclear waste is one of the main causes of global marine environmental pollution. The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the...
Ishiba Navigates Trump’s Trade Policies: Japan’s Strategy to Avoid U.S. Tariffs
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed confidence on February 9, 2025, that Japan could sidestep the looming U.S. tariff hikes. Speaking to public broadcaster...