2010/11/05 | AJISS-Commentary
No. 104: Susumu Yamakage, "ARF: Move Forward "Not Too Slow""
[PDF version] Yokohama will soon receive the leaders of some 20 economies for the annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Esta...
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2010/11/02 | AJISS-Commentary
No. 103: Masaru Kohno, "Don't Think Twice about Japanese Politics. It's All Right."
[PDF version] Japanese politics in recent years has often been described with such adjectives as volatile, confused, and unpredictable. Surely, prime ...
2010/10/29 | AJISS-Commentary
No. 102: Hirotaka Watanabe, "Deepening the Alliance within an International Security Community"
[PDF version] Needless to say, alliances are cooperative relationships among states with shared interests. They entail constant friction between allia...
2010/10/26 | AJISS-Commentary
No. 100: Yasuhiro Nakasone, "100th Special Issue - The Future Direction of Japanese Diplomacy"
[PDF version]Diplomatic principlesAs I watch the statecraft of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), whose administration came into being as a result o...
2010/09/28 | AJISS-Commentary
No. 101: Toshiro Tanaka, "Stagnation and Integration in Europe"
[PDF version] The economic crisis, triggered by the bursting of the US housing bubble and exacerbated by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in Septembe...
2009/06/30 | AJISS-Commentary
No. 70: Taizo Yakushiji, "Why Japan Needs Science and Technology Diplomacy"
[PDF version]Japan has concluded science and technology agreements with 42 different countries, but a mere 16.7% of these are with developing nations ...
2007/12/14 | AJISS-Commentary
No. 19: Yoshio Okawara, "Japan's Evolving Relations with China"
[PDF version]Last October, the 17th National Congress of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) concluded with the Hu Jintao administration starting its se...