Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Japan, Northeast Asia, and U.S. policy toward the region. Abe spent some time situating his comments in the larger flow of ...

Japan is flush with national pride this week, thanks to Kei Nishikori, the tennis phenom who knocked off seemingly indestructible Novak Djokovic to reach the U.S. Open finals and become the first ...

Some experts have observed that the current global financial crisis resembles the collapse of Japan’s bubble economy in the early 1990s. And indeed, the under­lying behavior was the same: Financial ...

A New York Times article “Foreign Firms Chafe at China’s Restrictions” (May 16, 2010) by Keith Bradsher on U.S. and other multinationals’ frustrations regarding the China market triggered an “it’s ...

Japan affords a preview of what the future of the United States, Australia, and Western Europe will become unless meaningful steps are taken to ensure that a nation’s relevance is measured by how it ...

For some time now, a series of nuclear facility safety incidents in Japan have raised concern, including fraud of quality inspection data for radiation detectors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power ...

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story attributed a quote to the incorrect Subaru executive. It should have attributed the quote to Kazuyuki Muneta, senior general manager of Subaru’s ...