giulio napolitano / Shutterstock.com   Key points in this article: The Vatican compromised with China, a religiously intolerant nation, over appointment of bishops. The deal sparks a fear of reli...

  Key points in this article: How is Merkel’s ideal of a world organization different from the UN or the EU? Merkel’s political philosophy is visible in Kant’s “Perpetual ...

  Key points in this article: Why has the territorial dispute been so prolonged? How Japan-Russia relations have been hampered from improving We must face the reality of deepening China-Russia re...

  Key points in this article: Confusion is still rife in the EU. President Trump approaches Britain and France with a new trade agreement. Germany continues close ties with her greatest trade par...

Photo: A replica of comfort women statue on a truck bed is running in Taipei city.   China is using the comfort women problem to advance their annexation of Taiwan. In August, Taiwan installed it...

ID1974 / Shutterstock.com   Key points in this article: President Putin proposed a peace treaty with Japan this year How deep is the Russia-China honeymoon relationship? Agreeing to the peace tre...

(Photo: EQRoy / Shutterstock.com)   The South China Sea is China’s geopolitical axis. China analyst Masaru Soma reports behind the scenes of China’s leaders. By looking into power bal...

  How Should Japan Respond to the New Cold War? As the U.S. and China clash over the 5 battlegrounds of trade, technology, finance, space and ideology, Japan must come up with her own plan of act...

  【Battleground 3: Finance】 Challenging the People’s Liberation Empire China is in the process of constructing an Empire with their trade surplus. Trump is putting a stop to that. U.S. Pres...

  Johann Knox / Shutterstock.com   Hataru Nomura Journalist Born in 1963, Nomura graduated from Rikkyo University in Tokyo. After serving as editor-in-chief for a magazine aimed at a global ...