Media

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Selected Media Mentions

• South China Morning Post, “Can US ally Japan set ‘important precedent’ on how to avoid Trump’s tariffs?” February 20, 2025, by Maria Siow.
• The New York Times, “A Seismic Election Sends Asia’s Most Stable Democracy Into Chaos,” October 28, 2024, by Motoko Rich.
• Bloomberg, “Japan’s Leadership Race Is Wide Open as Party Elders Retreat,” September 12, 2024, by Alastair Gale and Yuki Hagiwara.
• Islands Business, “The Complexities of Undersea Cables,” June 1, 2024, by Kite Pareti.
• Bloomberg, “Japan’s Kishida Faces Biggest Political Scandal in Decades,” December 12, 2023, by Isabel Reynolds.
• ThinkTech Hawaii, “Developing Hawaii’s Relationships with the Indo-Pacific,” October 15, 2023.
• University of Hawai‘i News, “New Asia-Pacific affairs career initiative in motion,” October 10, 2023.
• Christian Science Monitor, “Can South Korea and Japan overcome their past and focus on the future?” March 1, 2023, by Ann Scott Tyson.
• 15 Minutes in Washington DC (podcast), “How is the Quad Progressing,” September 29, 2022.
• The Seattle Times, “US seeks united front in Asia despite Korea, Japan tensions,” September 28, 2022, by Mari Yamaguchi, Tong-Hyung Kim, and Chris Megerian.
• Formiche, “Così l’assassinio di Abe cambia il Giappone. Parla Govella (GMF),” July 16, 2022, by Gabriele Carrer.
• KITV, “Hawaii Residents Reflect on Shinzo Abe’s Death,” July 9, 2022.
• BBC Newsday, “Quad leaders summit,” May 24, 2022.
• Voice of America, “바이든, ‘아태 경제∙안보 협력’ 추진으로 ‘중국 악의적 행동 차단’ ‘국제 규범 보호’,” by Eunjung Cho, May 24, 2022.
• CNN, “China is alarmed by the Quad. But its threats are driving the group closer together,” by Nectar Gan, May 23, 2022.
• 毎日新聞, “方向性は正しかったアベノミクス　結果出ず、企業は「守り」に／4,” by Shinichi Akiyama, October 17, 2021.
• TIME, “New Prime Minister Fumio Kishida Promises a ‘New Capitalism’ for Japan. Will It Succeed?” by Charlie Campbell, October 13, 2021.
• War on the Rocks (Warcast podcast), “Japan’s New Prime Minister,” September 30, 2021.(available to members only)
• The New York Times, “Japan Faces Big Problems. Its Next Leader Offers Few Bold Solutions.” by Motoko Rich, September 29, 2021.
• Foreign Policy, “Fumio Kishida is Japan’s Next Prime Minister,” by Colm Quin, September 29, 2021.
• The German Marshall Fund of the United States (Out of Order podcast), “Prospects for US-Japan-Europe Security Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific,” September 9, 2021.
• TIME, “Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga Is Resigning. Here’s What That Means,” by Amy Gunia, September 3, 2021.
• The Japan Times, “At the G7, Can Biden Unite the Globe’s Top Democracies to Take on China?” by Jesse Johnson, June 9, 2021.
• The Japan Times, “Economic Issues, Once Divisive, Now Bind Japan and the U.S.,” by Brad Glosserman, April 27, 2021.
• TIME, “Biden Will Meet Japan’s Yoshihide Suga in His First In-Person Meeting With a Foreign Leader. Here’s What to Know,” by Amy Gunia, April 15, 2021.
• TIME, “Yoshihide Suga is Japan’s New Prime Minister. Here’s What That Means for the US,” by Amy Gunia, September 17, 2020.
• BBC News, “Yoshihide Suga: The Unexpected Rise of Japan’s New Prime Minister,” by Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, September 16, 2020.
• TIME, “Shinzo Abe’s Successor Will Inherit a Stricken Economy and Unfinished Business. What’s Next for Japan?” by Charlie Campbell, September 8, 2020.
• The New York Times, “Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Longest-Serving Prime Minister, Resigns Because of Illness,” by Motoko Rich, August 28, 2020.
• National Bureau of Asian Research (Asia Insight podcast), “Promoting Good Governance in the Global Commons through the US-Japan Alliance,” August 6, 2020.
• The New York Times, “As the World Gets Tougher on China, Japan Tries to Thread a Needle,” by Motoko Rich and Makiko Inoue, July 26, 2020.
• The New York Times, “Why Asia’s New Coronavirus Controls Should Worry the World,” by Motoko Rich, March 31, 2020.
• The New York Times, “White House Projects Grim Toll from Coronavirus,” March 31, 2020.
• Newsweek Japan, “新型コロナウイルス　世界に広がる東洋人嫌悪,” by Yoko Morgenstern, February 4, 2020.
• The New York Times, “As Coronavirus Spreads, So Does Anti-Chinese Sentiment,” by Motoko Rich, January 30, 2020.
• The New York Times, “Deaths Surpass 200, and State Department Urges Against Travel to China,” January 30, 2020.
• The New York Times,”North Korean Missile Delivers a Message: There’s Little Japan Can Do,” by Motoko Rich, October 2, 2019.
• The New York Times, “Shinzo Abe Declares Victory in Japan Election but Without Mandate to Revise Constitution,” by Motoko Rich, July 21, 2019.
• The New York Times, “One Image of Japan’s Royals Tells a Story of Demographic Crisis,” by Motoko Rich, Hisako Ueno, and Makiko Inoue, May 1, 2019.
• The Japan Times, “More in Japan see U.S. as ‘major threat,’ while cyberattacks and climate change top concerns, survey shows,” by Jesse Johnson, February 12, 2019.
• Asia Society, “Japan’s Population Dilemma,” by Matt Schiavenza, January 31, 2019.
• South China Morning Post, “‘Last adult’ James Mattis leaves the room: what next for Asia?” by Meaghan Tobin, December 21, 2018.
• The Japan Times, “With GOP’s loss of House, should Japan anticipate a more hard-line Trump?” by Tomohiro Osaki and Sakura Murakami, November 7, 2018.
• The New York Times, “Shinzo Abe Says Japan Is China’s ‘Partner,’ and No Longer Its Aid Donor,” by Steven Lee Myers and Motoko Rich, October 26, 2018.
• The Diplomat, “3 More Years of Abe: Japan’s Foreign Policy Future,” by Daniel Hurst, September 22, 2018.
• The Times of London, “How Shinzo Abe became Japan’s Supreme Political Survivor,” by Daniel Hurst, September 21, 2018.
• The New York Times, “With a Submarine, Japan Sends a Message in the South China Sea,”  by Motoko Rich and Makiko Inoue, September 18, 2018.
• NBC News, “Japan’s scandal-plagued Shinzo Abe eyes his place in history books,” by Daniel Hurst, August 19, 2018.
• Marketplace (radio), “Pompeo travels to boost US interests in South Asia,” July 31, 2018.
• Agencia EFE, “Trump descubre los límites de su apuesta diplomática con Corea del Norte,” by Lucia Leal, May 26, 2018.
• USA Today, “Trump backs North-South Korea Peace Talks in Summit with Japan’s Leader at Mar-a-Lago,” by David Jackson, April 17, 2018.
• The New York Times, “As Scandal-Tarred Abe Meets Trump, ‘the Situation is Getting Dangerous’,” by Motoko Rich, April 16, 2018.
• The New York Times, “Trump’s Unpredictability on Trade and North Korea Opens a Door for China,” by Motoko Rich, March 10, 2018.
• Financial Review, “Donald Trump’s Snap Decision to Meet With Kim Jong-un,” by Peter Baker and Choe Sang-Hun, March 10, 2018.
• The New York Times, “In Japan, a Liberal Maverick Is Seeking to Lead a Conservative Party,” by Motoko Rich, February 17, 2018.
• The New York Times, “Seeing US in Retreat Under Trump, Japan and China Move to Mend Ties,” by Motoko Rich and Jane Perlez, November 16, 2017.
• BBC World News (TV interview), “Trump in Asia,” November 11, 2017.
• The Washington Post, “As Japan buddies up to Trump, South Korea frets it’s being disrespected,” by Anna Fifield and Adam Taylor, November 3, 2017.