Japan

Washington and Tokyo need a sharp focus in a challenging era.

As states struggle, organized crime is rising to new prominence.

The president can corner China by bringing one of his predecessor’s foreign-policy initiatives to completion.

If China is seeking a reset of relations, it has a strange way of showing it.

The big strategic game in Asia isn’t military but economic.

The Japanese government is locked into what critics call a misguided project.

Here are five of our best pieces on how East Asia handled the pandemic.

The RCEP truly is a China-style trade agreement: platitudinous and ineffective.

India, Japan, Australia, and the United States have a good model if they want to keep the peace without threatening China.

Conservative commentators dislike Biden, but they’re a minority.

Neither U.S. presidential option is great for Tokyo.

Japan’s new prime minister has the skills to take on the country’s bureaucrats.

U.S. policy to contain China will require a lot more continuity with Trump than Biden’s backers would like to admit.

The nascent pact with Australia, Japan, and the United States is pointless. It should be quietly disbanded.

If the yen gets stronger, Japan’s new prime minister will have to come up with something new to protect exports.

The new Japanese prime minister shares many of outgoing Shinzo Abe’s policies—but isn’t as wedded to Abe’s big overhaul.

Abe’s right-hand man taking power could mean a return to the days of short-lived premierships.