Tokyo Report

Japan has steadily progressed toward achieving reliable, indigenous capabilities in outer space. 

With election season looming in the U.S., the question of Japan's financial contribution to the alliance could become politically fraught.

Like the United States, Japan has a relatively high poverty rate for a wealthy nation. 

A recent survey by Japan's Cabinet Office has interesting implications for the push to welcome more foreign workers.

Japan pursues diplomacy amid a tense situation.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged Sunday to bolster his country's role under its security pact with the U.S. in "outer space and cyberspace."

Abe's personal relationships with the main players in the Middle East give him a unique opportunity to play peacemaker.

Taro Kono’s trip included the usual rhetoric on the alliance, but a few surprises as well.

What kind of Japan will the region have to deal with in the coming decades?

Kono toured the test complex for an advanced ballistic missile defense system that Japan is procuring.

The incident leaves lingering questions and contending perceptions that have yet to be addressed.

Acrimonious Iran-U.S relations haven’t deterred Prime Minister Abe, who is on a scheduled tour of the Middle East under the banner of “peace diplomacy.”