Content Type: Policy Brief / Publishing Institution: Foreign Policy In Focus / Political Geography: Japan

Author:: John Feffer
Publication Date:: 04-2010
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Foreign Policy In Focus
Abstract:: Earth Day was a big event this year. Sting sang on the Mall here in Washington. The citizens of Qatar turned off their power for an hour. The U.S. Navy rolled out its new biodiesel-fueled Green Hornet fighter jet. Okay, maybe the Earth was not so impressed with all the events held in its honor.
Topic:: Arms Control and Proliferation, Corruption, and Government
Political Geography:: United States, Japan, and East Asia

Author:: John Feffer
Publication Date:: 04-2010
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Foreign Policy In Focus
Abstract:: I'm not a big fan of Dana Rohrabacher, the grandstanding Republican congressman from California. But last week at a congressional hearing on U.S.-Japan relations, he ably cut through the Pentagon's doublespeak.
Topic:: Treaties and Agreements, Bilateral Relations, and Territorial Disputes
Political Geography:: United States, Japan, and Washington

Author:: John Gershman
Publication Date:: 11-2005
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Foreign Policy In Focus
Abstract:: President Bush is in Asia this week for a series of meetings, including bilateral meetings in Japan, South Korea, China, and Mongolia and attending the economic leaders meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. This trip comes on the heels of a disastrous trip by President Bush to Latin America, but there is little sign this trip will do much to rescue the President's sinking foreign policy reputation.
Topic:: International Relations and Foreign Policy
Political Geography:: United States, Japan, China, Asia, and South Korea

Author:: Ian Williams
Publication Date:: 08-2005
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Foreign Policy In Focus
Abstract:: Within a day of arriving at the United Nations John Bolton, the former lobbyist for Taiwan and advocate for one permanent seat on the Security Council, the United States, had cut a deal with the Chinese representative. China wants to stop an additional permanent Security Council seat for Japan. The United States had promised Japan its support in return for its loyalty over Iraq, but hated Germany more than it loves Japan. So the two agreed to thwart the attempt by the G-4 (Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan), to secure permanent seats during the current reform proposals.
Topic:: International Relations, Security, and United Nations
Political Geography:: United States, Japan, China, India, Taiwan, Asia, Brazil, and Germany

Author:: Anthony DiFilippo
Publication Date:: 06-2005
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Foreign Policy In Focus
Abstract:: Deterring attack is usually cited as the main motivation for states to keep or acquire nuclear weapons. Yet today's NPT stalemate involves both security and economic concerns. Nuclear and nonnuclear weapons states alike have associated nuclear-energy-generating capabilities with economic growth. By far the biggest problem that the NPT faces today is that nations have come to see and use it as a self-serving accord.
Topic:: International Relations, Arms Control and Proliferation, and Nuclear Weapons
Political Geography:: Japan and Israel

Author:: Conn Hallinan
Publication Date:: 05-2005
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Foreign Policy In Focus
Abstract:: At first glance, the growing tension between China and Japan seems almost inexplicable. Massive anti-Japanese demonstrations in China over events that took place more than half a century ago? A heated exchange filled with mutual threats over an offshore petroleum field that western oil companies think is not worth exploiting? Has a Shinto shrine and slanted textbooks really driven the two great Asian powers to the edge of a Cold War or worse?
Topic:: International Relations and War
Political Geography:: Japan, China, Israel, and Asia

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