News Japan Politics: Japan claims it’s restricting exports to South Korea because of ‘national security.’ Here’s the real reason why.
As a result, the plaintiffs’ lawyers have moved ahead to seize South Korean-based assets of Japanese firms that refuse to pay compensation, although the seizures have yet to take place. South Korea’s ...
News Japan Politics: South Korean political parties back Moon in Japan trade row
SEOUL, South Korea — Setting aside their usual bickering, South Korean liberal and conservative parties on Thursday vowed to cooperate to help the Seoul government prevail in an escalating trade row ...
News Japan Politics: Japan-South Korea Relationship Got Caught in Domestic Politics, Says CFR’s Snyder
Jul.17 -- Scott Snyder, senior fellow for Korea studies and U.S. Korea policy program director at CFR, discusses the escalating tensions between Japan and South Korea, which side will suffer the most, the relations between the two countries and if the U.S. should get involved. He speaks on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia.”
News Japan Politics: Lee Iacocca was known for his business skills. Why we need to remember his politics, too.
But while declining elective office, Iacocca remained vocal about policy issues. He continued to criticize the “insidious Japanese economic and political power within the United States,” and in one of ...
News Japan Politics: Commentary: The politics of Iacocca and Trump -- mixing economic nationalism with racist overtones
Opinion: It is tempting then to see Iacocca as the forerunner to President Donald Trump, another outspoken businessman who achieved fame on the back of a best-selling autobiography. Just like Iacocca, Trump believes that America is losing a trade war.
News Japan Politics: Trump arrives in Japan to meet with Abe and new emperor
(CNN) - President Donald Trump arrived in Japan on Saturday eager for a visit salted with flattery and pomp — particularly as he escapes a hostile political environment back home. The President and ...
News Japan Politics: Trump arrives in Japan eager for flattery and pomp
(CNN) - President Donald Trump arrived in Japan on Saturday eager for a visit salted with flattery and pomp — particularly as he escapes a hostile political environment back home. The President and ...
News Japan Politics: Steak, Sumo and Fighter Jets: Inside Japan's Plan to Keep Trump Busy
political, and economic ally in Asia. Nevertheless, Japanese officials are apprehensive ahead of the unpredictable Trump’s visit. Barring an unintended tariff battle, however, Japan’s delicate ...
News Japan Politics: Trump arrives in Japan, kicking off 4-day state visit with trade talks at its center
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump landed in Japan on Saturday, kicking off a highly anticipated state visit -- with the president to become the first foreign leader to meet Japan’s new Emperor Naruhito.
News Japan Politics: Q&A With Japanese Artist Kohei Nawa Who Distorts And Illuminates The World We Live In
A major figure in Japanese contemporary art ... I’m not particularly conscious of whether I’m a political artist or not, and I would prefer to leave such judgment to the viewers themselves. Tell me ...
News Japan Politics: Lessons For Today From The U.S.-Japan Trade War Of The 1980s
NPR's Audie Cornish talks with political science professor Kristin Vekasi about comparisons between the U.S. trade conflict with Japan in the '80s and Trump's current conflict with China. ...
News Japan Politics: African samurai: The enduring legacy of a black warrior in feudal Japan
Hong Kong (CNN)When feudal Japan's most powerful warlord Nobunaga Oda met Yasuke ... says Lockley. In an era racked by political espionage, merciless assassinations and ninja attacks, Yasuke was seen ...
News Japan Politics: How L.A. designer Rudi Gernreich shifted fashion politics
Together, they took work trips to Chicago; Osaka, Japan; and elsewhere. Back then ... who became involved in the exhibition about two years ago. “He was a political commentator. He was really reacting ...
News Japan Politics: Trump’s Love for Tariffs Began in Japan’s ’80s Boom
“I believe very strongly in tariffs,” Mr. Trump, at the time a Manhattan real estate developer with fledgling political instincts, told the journalist Diane Sawyer, before criticizing Japan, West ...
