Asia Policy Point

https://www.cfr.org/blog/womens-voices-project-pivots-japan
CFR starts program to interview prominent Japanese women. Tokyo's rightwing Governor is the first to be interviewed.

Women’s Voices Project Pivots to Japan After a yearlong focus on India, the Women’s Voices from the Indo-Pacific Project now shifts to another important U.S. democratic partner, Japan.

The US has a lot to answer for. Now if the US Asia policy folks would talk to their human rights and women's rights counterparts in the State Dept we might get somewhere.

Acknowledging U.S. Missteps Can Ease Japan-South Korea Relations History sits at the heart of the frigid relationship between South Korea and Japan. Not just the history of Japanese imperialism, but also the history of U.S. strategic interests since 1945. U.S. decision-making stemming from such interests — at first framed within the context of fighting the Cold...