A “historic” visit will take place, according to the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, when President Joe Biden hosts Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida Fumio for a state visit on April 10. During the second such state visit since 2015, Kishida will, at the urging of a bipartisan group of Senators, speak at a joint session … Read more
A video allegedly shot by a Chinese drone flying over Japan’s largest warship since World War II, JS Izumo, has been spreading on social media platforms in China and elsewhere, prompting the Japanese Defense Ministry and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) to start an official investigation into its authenticity. The 19-second video and accompanying … Read more
Advertisement As crises erupted in East Asia, and communism seemed to be on the offensive – evident from the victory of the Communist Party in the Chinese civil war and the North Korean invasion of South Korea – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru (in office from 1948-1954) was laying the foundation of a strategy that … Read more
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