Economics
The yen should be strengthening as the interest rate gap with America narrows. Instead it remains stubbornly weak. The market may be signalling a deeper problem: Japan needs higher interest rates to support its…
Japan
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s tour of Vietnam and Australia looked like reassurance diplomacy: ceremonial gifts, smiling photographs and…
Defence
Sanae Takaichi’s decision to describe a Taiwan contingency as a “survival-threatening situation” has pushed Japan–China tensions into legal…
Commentry
Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is warning voters about the dangers of immigration at the very moment Japan…
World
Asia Pacific is entering a new phase where security policy and economic policy have fused into a single bargaining system. Defence budgets, trade law,…