Insights

What ASEAN can learn from Fukushima

Three years after 11 March 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster continues to affect both…

May 5, 20143 min

Insights

Nuclear Power and Abenomics

Japan's new Basic Energy Plan sends a clear signal that the country will not abandon…

April 17, 20143 min

Insights

Japan-Australia FTA: A good precedent for compromise

Japan and Australia have agreed on a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA). This is the…

April 9, 20143 min

Insights

Pipeline politics: Putin’s pivot to Asia?

Last week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attended the opening of the Winter Olympics in…

February 13, 20143 min

Commentaries

Asia copes with transitions

In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, two key buzzwords that conveyed the…

January 7, 20148 min

Commentaries

Abenomics, Asia & ASEAN

Japan has received more attention and generated more optimism in the first six months of…

September 11, 20131 min

Commentaries

Heading off the next Asian crisis

After the global financial crisis, Asia grew at more than 6 per cent each year,…

August 6, 20135 min

Commentaries

Japanese companies must adapt to a changed Asia

Japanese interest in South and Southeast Asia is surging for both economic and political reasons.…

April 11, 20134 min

Commentaries

What Asians hope Abe will say to Obama

Japan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made his first overseas visit to South-east Asian…

February 14, 20135 min

Commentaries

Legal process, political mess?

The legal process begun by the Philippines to challenge claims by China to the South…

January 28, 20135 min

Commentaries

The right balance

Everyone’s pivoting to Asia, even Asians. After the Barack Obama administration’s rebalancing and Australia’s white-paper…

January 23, 20135 min