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Peter Ennis
Asia-Pacific
A long-time chronicler and analyst of Japan and US-Japan relations
Interests: Japanese politics, reform efforts, foreign and security policy; American politics, trade policy, energy policy, foreign and security policy; Asia-Pacific security; global security architecture
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Sneider:‘North Korean behavior driven by underlying weakness’
[Editor’s note: South Korean President Park Geun-hye will be in Washington this week for talks with President Obama and members of his Cabinet. She will also deliver a speech to a joint session of Congress, a sign of continuing strong US support for its long-time ally. Much of the discussion... Continue reading
Posted May 5, 2013 at Dispatch Japan
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Failure to fill key Asia policy posts hinders Obama administration
Mark Lippert, the assistant secretary of defense for Asia and one of President Barack Obama’s closest friends, was close by Chuck Hagel today when the US defense secretary met in Washington with his Japanese counterpart, Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera. In a few days, Lippert will still be at Hagel’s side,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 29, 2013 at Dispatch Japan
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Okinawa Vice Governor Takara: ‘No go on Henoko’
Three weeks have passed since the United States and Japan announced with great fanfare an agreement on consolidating US military bases on Okinawa. The core of the agreement is the eventual, long-anticipated closure of the US Marine Air Station Futenma, perilously located in the crowded center of Ginowan City. The... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2013 at Dispatch Japan
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Manning: Pyongyang fearful of internal situation
Robert Manning is a senior fellow of the Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security at the Atlantic Council. He served as a senior counselor from 2001 to 2004 and as a member of the US Department of State Policy Planning Staff from 2004 to 2008. The interview was conducted via... Continue reading
Posted Apr 22, 2013 at Dispatch Japan
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Mochizuki: ‘US-Japan agreement on Okinawa is not a breakthrough’
Professor Mike Mochizuki holds the Japan-U.S. Relations Chair in Memory of Gaston Sigur at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. He co-directs the "Memory and Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific" research and policy project of the Sigur Center. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow at the... Continue reading
Posted Apr 11, 2013 at Dispatch Japan
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US-Japan agreement on Okinawa: Far less than advertised
US and Japanese officials are promoting the April 5th agreement on returning some land in Okinawa now used by the US military as a breakthrough in long-stalled plans for an overall restructuring of the US presence in Japan’s southern-most prefecture. Amy Searight, the Pentagon’s principal director for East Asia policy,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 9, 2013 at Dispatch Japan
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For Abe, talks with Obama came down to ‘take what you can get’
From the standpoint of his political image back home, the February 22 summit meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Obama was a big success for the Japanese leader. Abe was able to bolster his standing with the Japanese public and within his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as... Continue reading
Posted Feb 26, 2013 at Dispatch Japan
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Obama to embrace Japan, not Abe
With North Korea having recently tested a third nuclear device and China acting provocatively in the East China Sea, there will be plenty for Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe and President Obama to talk about when they meet at the White House later today. The summit will provide an opportunity... Continue reading
Posted Feb 21, 2013 at Dispatch Japan
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Deming: US, Japan need ‘new imagination and energy’ on Okinawa basing issues
Editor’s note: The following interview was conducted jointly for Weekly Toyo Keizai and Dispatch Japan. It is the fifth in a series of interviews and commentary about Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Friday meeting with President Obama. Rust Deming, a veteran Japan specialist, is an adjunct professor of Japan studies... Continue reading
Posted Feb 20, 2013 at Dispatch Japan
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Smith: ‘Japan needs a strategic accommodation with South Korea’
Editor’s note: The following interview was conducted jointly for Weekly Toyo Keizai and Dispatch Japan. It is the fourth in a series of interviews and commentary about Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s upcoming visit to Washington. Sheila Smith is senior fellow for Japan studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.... Continue reading
Posted Feb 19, 2013 at Dispatch Japan
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Hornung: Obama to urge Abe to avoid ‘overtly antagonistic’ policies toward neighbors
Editor’s note: The following interview was conducted jointly for Weekly Toyo Keizai and Dispatch Japan. It is the third in a series of interviews and commentary about Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s upcoming visit to Washington. Jeffrey Hornung is an associate professor with the Hawaii-based Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies.... Continue reading
Posted Feb 18, 2013 at Dispatch Japan
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Cossa: Abe and Obama to ‘get acquainted’ at meeting
Editor’s note: The following interview was conducted jointly for Weekly Toyo Keizai and Dispatch Japan. It is the second in a series of interviews and commentary about Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s upcoming visit to Washington. Ralph Cossa is president of Pacific Forum-CSIS, a leading think-tank focusing on Asia and... Continue reading
Posted Feb 17, 2013 at Dispatch Japan
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Nelson: Obama to urge ‘calm management’ of China ties in talk with Abe
Editor’s note: The following interview was conducted jointly for Weekly Toyo Keizai and Dispatch Japan. It is the first in a series of interviews and commentary about Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s upcoming visit to Washington. Chris Nelson is the founder and editor of The Nelson Report, one of the... Continue reading
Posted Feb 17, 2013 at Dispatch Japan
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Nye: Beware of ‘populist nationalism’
Japan will hold parliamentary elections on December 16 that will bring a new prime minister to office, while China remains in the midst of a critical transition in national leadership. In both countries, foreign and security policies are points of contention. Tension between Japan and China is running high, largely... Continue reading
Posted Dec 3, 2012 at Dispatch Japan
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Japan elections: Later rather than sooner?
A somewhat jet-lagged Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda returned to Tokyo late Thursday after a trip to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, amidst growing signs that long anticipated elections could be postponed for quite some time, perhaps as late as next summer. On Friday, Noda will convene a... Continue reading
Posted Sep 27, 2012 at Dispatch Japan
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No short-term letup likely in Japan-ROK tensions
Chances are diminishing that tension between Japan and South Korea over a vexing territorial dispute will ease anytime soon. At issue is sovereignty over a group of desolate islets, which Japan calls Takeshima and Korea calls Dokdo, that lie midway between the two countries. Korea now has administrative control. Adding... Continue reading
Posted Aug 30, 2012 at Dispatch Japan
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Alliance managers happy with Morimoto appointment
Alliance managers in both the US and Japan seem happy with the appointment of Satoshi Morimoto as defense minister of Japan. Morimoto is a bit of a maverick, but is solidly in favor of the US-Japan alliance. Many news reports have been a bit simplistic in referring to Morimoto as... Continue reading
Posted Jun 5, 2012 at Dispatch Japan
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The US, Japan, and Okinawa
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a fine speech at the US Naval Academy yesterday, outlining the new US approach to East Asia. But she barely mentioned Japan, the allied nation where the US has its only forward-deployed aircraft carrier group (Yokosuka), and its only forward-deployed Marine Expeditionary Force (Okinawa),... Continue reading
Posted Apr 11, 2012 at Dispatch Japan
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Mike Green: ‘The Asia pivot is both political, and good policy’
Editor’s note: The following interview was conducted jointly for Weekly Toyo Keizai, and Dispatch Japan. Michael Green is professor of Political Science at Georgetown University, and holds the Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. During the George W. Bush administration, Prof. Green served as senior director... Continue reading
Posted Feb 20, 2012 at Dispatch Japan
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Sneider: ‘I don’t see strong evidence of a serious pivot toward Asia’
Editor’s note: The following interview was conducted jointly for Weekly Toyo Keizai, and Dispatch Japan . Dan Sneider is associate director of research at Stanford University’s Asia-Pacific Research Center. He formerly headed the Tokyo and Moscow bureaus of the Christian Science Monitor, and was both national editor and foreign policy... Continue reading
Posted Feb 12, 2012 at Dispatch Japan
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Kurt Campbell: ‘We have been over-invested in Iraq and Afghanistan’
Editor’s note: The following interview was conducted jointly for Weekly Toyo Keizai, and Dispatch Japan . Kurt Campbell is assistant secretary of state for East Asian and and Pacific Affairs. He was previously co-founder of the influential think tank Center for a New American Security, and deputy assistant secretary of... Continue reading
Posted Feb 11, 2012 at Dispatch Japan
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Lippert nomination moves along
We first reported, on March 25, 2011, that President Obama had decided to appoint one of his closest friends and advisors, Mark Lippert, to run the Asia division of the Pentagon – officially “assistant secretary of defense” for the region. The nomination is going forward, now that Senator John McCain... Continue reading
Posted Feb 9, 2012 at Dispatch Japan
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Webb: ‘US and Japan paralyzed over Okinawa’
Editor’s note: The following interview was conducted jointly for Weekly Toyo Keizai, and Dispatch Japan. Senator Jim Webb, Democrat of Virginia, is chairman, East Asian and Pacific Affairs, subcommittee, Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senator Webb is also a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Along with Senators Levin and... Continue reading
Posted Feb 6, 2012 at Dispatch Japan
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The “Asia Pivot”: Is it real?
Ever since President Obama’s extensive visit to East Asia late last year, analysts have talked about a “pivot” in American foreign policy to the Asia-Pacific region. From the time Obama took office, his closest advisors talked privately about the need to “rebalance” US foreign policy, from over-emphasis on Southwest Asia... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2012 at Dispatch Japan
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The White House, the Marines, and Okinawa
It looks as if President Obama, during his upcoming stop in Australia, will finally announce in Darwin a long-discussed Western Australia “training option” for the US Marine Corps, which would involve regular rotation of Marine infantry units to the area, which is both well-located and held high in Australian military... Continue reading
Posted Nov 14, 2011 at Dispatch Japan
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