List of Japan articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Does It Matter Whether Japan Says Sorry for Its Wartime Behavior?
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is about to give a major speech on Japan’s World War II aggression. But in Tokyo, history is never really about history.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Currency Devaluation Shows the High Cost of China’s Soft Power
Beijing has been spending hundreds of billions of dollars to buy friends and influence its neighbors. Weakening the value of the yuan shows that the bill is coming due — and China may not be able to pay it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Does Sherman’s March to the Sea Teach Us About Dealing With China Today?
The United States needs a sequential strategy for besting Beijing.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Magical Thinking and the Real Power of Hiroshima
A few thoughts on the psychological effect and utility of nuclear weapons.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Out of the Mushroom Cloud’s Shadow
The generation that survived Hiroshima is dying off. Will Japan’s resistance to nuclear weapons disappear with it?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Is China Playing Nice With Japan?
Despite tensions over disputed land and the memories of World War II, economic necessity is bringing the two neighbors closer than they’ve been in years.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Climate and Cherry Disputes in WikiLeaks Documents Show U.S.-Japan Relations Can Be the Pits
New WikiLeaks cables purportedly show U.S. eavesdropping on ally Japan for diplomatic -- if diminutive -- details on trade and environmental policies.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Here Are the Remaining Hurdles to Obama’s Massive Asia Trade Deal
Here are the remaining hurdles to President Obama getting his massive Asian trade deal done.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Clickbait Nationalism
Sensational headlines, misleading translations -- it’s how Chinese state media keeps its citizens angry at Japan.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 With A Japanese Owner, How Will the Financial Times Fare in China?
The FT has been remarkably successful in China. That could change.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Shinzo Abe Uses Paper Cutouts to Sell His Security Reforms on Japanese TV
The Japanese leader tries to sell a skeptical public on a more aggressive defense posture.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Asia Should Fear the ‘Persian Pivot’
Our friends in Asia worry that the Iran deal could set the stage for a similar pact with China.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Japan’s Expanding Military Role Could Be Good News for the Pentagon and Its Contractors
Japan is moving toward a more aggressive military stance. That's good news for the Pentagon and defense contractors.
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GettyImages-471189362 Does Japan’s Conservative Shinto Religion Support Gay Marriage?
And when will gay marriage be legal in Japan?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘Japan Alone Cannot Guard or Sustain Peace’
Foreign Policy talks to Japan’s former defense minister about reinterpreting the country's constitution to counter China’s peaceful rise.
