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East Asia/International Politics

America’s new Focus on Taiwan

Posted on September 20, 2018 by kumiko-ahr

Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen made stopovers in America during her trip to Paraguay and Belize in ... Read More

Foreign affairs/True Info Japan

The Yasukuni Shrine Dispute – Neglecting Japan’s domestic Politics and thinking about the War Histories

Posted on August 7, 2018 by kumiko-ahr

Closing in upon Japan’s commemoration of war’s end on August 15th, the question of whether the Japan... Read More

East Asia/International Politics

A Different Focus on the Korean Peninsula

Posted on June 21, 2018 by kumiko-ahr

Right after the meeting with Kim Jong-un in Singapore, US President Donald Trump announced an interm... Read More

Foreign affairs/True Info Japan

Senkaku Islands

Posted on May 29, 2018 by kumiko-ahr

The Senkaku Islands are located near Ishigaki Island in the Ryukyu Islands in Okinawa Prefecture, an... Read More

China/International Politics

China’s New Dictatorship Era

Posted on March 25, 2018 by kumiko-ahr

The National People’s Congress was held in March. China reported an ominous amendment of the constit... Read More

International Politics/North Korea

Focus Shift from the Korean Peninsula to the Asian Pacific Region

Posted on January 8, 2018 by kumiko-ahr

A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea in November 2017. North Korea has started to dig tren... Read More

International Politics/North Korea

An Update on North Korea’s ongoing Provocations

Posted on September 7, 2017 by kumiko-ahr

North Korea’s missile tests seem not to come to an end although the US military has already strength... Read More

International Politics/North Korea

North Korea’s Provocations and the lukewarm Responses of the World Powers

Posted on June 8, 2017 by kumiko-ahr

The US aircraft carrier Carl Vinson and its strike group have already been in operation in the regio... Read More

East Asia/International Politics

Smoldering Tensions on the Korean Peninsula: Will 2017 see landmark changes?

Posted on March 30, 2017 by kumiko-ahr

On 6 March 2017 North Korea fired four missiles in the Japanese See; three landed in Japan’s EEZ 300... Read More

Asia/International Politics

Time to Rethink Defense Policies

Posted on November 20, 2016 by kumiko-ahr

The whole world has paid attention to the US presidential election. Although the major mass media co... Read More

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Kumiko Ahr
Kumiko Ahr

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