New Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping at a Conference (left corner) Photograph: Reuter/ Aflo In November, right after the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party took place in Beij...

Little by little, China is beginning its move towards its ‘global empire’. Masaru Soma, a China expert capable of interpreting the power struggle in the Zhongnanhai, its political centre, provid...

Kan Ito Born in 1953, Kan Ito is an international political analyst. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo and studied American political history and international rela...

Russia's President Putin shook hands with Chairman Hu Jintao at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Beijing Summit, which was made up of China, Russia, and four Central Asian nations (June 2012)...

Following the recent comments by Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Sept 30, 2012, accusing Tokyo of stealing the Senkaku Islands, the Happiness Realization Party issued a statement [Note], saying that C...

Stephen Kiprotich, a Ugandan runner, brought a gold medal to his country in the men’s marathon at the London Olympics this Sunday. His gold medal was the first one in Uganda since forty years ago and ...

Today, we are witnessing a revival of Confucian thought in China. in September 2011, the Confucius Festival was celebrated to honor the philosopher’s birthday. Picture taken in Qufu, Shandong, where t...

China’s intentions of invading Japan have been an object of discussion for a while. Recent trends in Japanese-Chinese relations seem to suggest that China is surely and steadily making progress with i...

Soji Suzuki, COO of Hitotsubashi Research Institute Soji Suzuki was born in 1951 in Shizuoka Prefecture. After graduating from Hitotsubashi University, he worked at Mitsui & Co., City Bank, and Ch...

The end of Mubarak’s 30 year rule in Egypt, the assassination of Gaddafi “the Mad Dog of the Middle East” in Libya, and the sudden death of Kim Jong Il, the second “Supreme Leader...