Media Interviews

Selected Media Mentions

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• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Selected Interviews, Webinars, and Podcasts

15 Minutes in Washington DC (podcast), “How is the Quad Progressing,” September 29, 2022. link

War on the Rocks (Warcast podcast), “Japan’s New Prime Minister,” September 30, 2021. link (available to members only)

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.

National Bureau of Asian Research (Asia Insight podcast), “Promoting Good Governance in the Global Commons through the US-Japan Alliance,” August 6, 2020.

East-West Center (webinar), “Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy Amid COVID-19 and Beyond,” July 1, 2020.

Marketplace (radio), “Pompeo travels to boost US interests in South Asia,” July 31, 2018.

I enjoyed talking with @BBCWorld tonight about Trump's visit to Asia and trade policy. Here's a short excerpt from the interview. pic.twitter.com/BKEUCKBsB7

— Kristi Govella (@KristiGovella) November 12, 2017

BBC World News (TV interview), November 11, 2017

Selected Writings

• “How to Mend the Rift Between Japan and South Korea.” Foreign Affairs (May 17, 2022). link
• “Seeking Resilience and Revitalization: US Supply Chain Strategy in the Indo-Pacific.” Stability and Security in the Indo-Pacific: The US, Japan, the EU, and the Elephant in the Room, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (March 17, 2022). link to article | download pdf issue
• “Ukraine: A Turning Point for Japanese Foreign Policy?” PacNet, no. 15 (March 9, 2022). link | pdf version
• “Trump’s trip to Japan reveals some mixed signals.” The Monkey Cage, The Washington Post (May 29, 2019). link
• “Japan’s Quest to Preserve the Trans-Pacific Partnership.” Asia Dialogue, (October 26, 2017). download

For more written analysis, see Publications.