Axel Berkofsky
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s long-life obsession to revise the country’s pacifist constitution suffered a blow in Japan’s Upper House elections last Sunday. The pro-revision political parties...
Il debito totale cinese sta diventando fonte di crescente preoccupazione per le autorità di Pechino, incapaci finora di porre rimedio ad una situazione di indebitamento crescente che se non ben...
L’imperatore Akihito salì al trono del Giappone nel gennaio 1989 in una congiuntura storica che rappresentò l’avvio di una nuova modernità globale: dalla caduta del muro di Berlino in Europa alle...
The expansion of Tokyo’s security and defence ties in East, Southeast and South Asia inspired Washington – together with India and Australia – to get on board Tokyo’s strategy to deter or indeed...
Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) policy is at the centre of Tokyo’s economic and security strategy in the Indo-Pacific Region. Although Japanese policymakers do not admit to that in public,...
Nel 2013, il primo ministro giapponese Shinzo Abe ha promesso un ritorno della crescita economica sostenibile, maggiori consumi interni e aziende che utilizzano denaro a basso costo per aumentare gli...
The Asia-Pacific has become the Indo-Pacific region as the US, Japan, Australia and India have decided to join forces and scale-up their political, economic and security cooperation. The message...
Al Primo Ministro Shinzo Abe è arrivato il messaggio: l’opinione pubblica e l’elettorato giapponese non sono interessati alla riforma della Costituzione che prevede un cambiamento dell’articolo 9 (...
In July 2018, Tokyo and Brussels did it. Japan and the European Union adopted their bilateral Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA). The SPA is aimed at further institutionalizing EU-Japan...
Recent months have been crucial for EU-Asia relations. With Trump’s new trade tariffs and the uncertain future of NATO after the mid-July summit in Brussels, the EU reached two important deals with...
“President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have committed to cooperate for the...
Tokyo is paying a hefty price. The price for the country's prime minister's near-obsession to follow Trump's erratic and ever-changing policy lead on North Korea. The devote Shinzo Abe for a long...