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Yuriko Koike
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Yuriko Koike, Japan's former defence minister and national security adviser, is Chairman of the Executive Council of the Liberal Democratic Party. She is a member of the House of Representatives of Japan for Tokyo's 10th district. |
Recent Articles
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Sunday Apr 28
North Korea will threaten Asia stability as long as China, Japan and South Korea look to settle scores
Reckless actors will threaten Asia stability as long as others look to settle scores
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Friday Mar 22
Asian power equation in post-America Middle East
Washington ought to remember that China’s dependence on the region’s energy imports means that it is almost certain to seek to fill in any security vacuum
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Thursday Jan 31
Clinton: A lasting impression
Her approach implicitly assumed that creating conditions of cooperative strength can make the search for lasting peace self-reinforcing
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Monday Dec 24
North Korea’s blackmail missile
The missile launch can be viewed as an indication of how threatened the Kim dynasty feels
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Saturday Nov 24
Allaying fears of militarisation in Asia
The great task for Obama and the Asean members is to ensure that consensus prevails in the continent without stoking China’s greatest strategic fear — encirclement
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Thursday Nov 1
Kim regime hinges on one woman’s health
The illness of Kim Kyong-hui, seen as the power behind nephew Kim Jong-un’s throne, could spell doom for North Korea’s rulers if the food shortage issue remains unresolved and other power structures fill the vacuum
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Sunday Sep 30
East Asia’s patriots and populists
What France and Germany achieved in the 1950s can serve as an example to settle current territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea
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Wednesday Aug 1
South Korea’s budding femocracy
Park Geun-hye’s triumph in the presidential elections is critical to efforts aimed at creating a political environment hospitable to women
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Monday May 28
China’s expansive territorial claims
Given its mushrooming military budget and secretiveness, its assertiveness has set off alarm bells among the other countries bordering the South China Sea
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Tuesday Apr 24
The ghost of North Korea
The world cannot be pushed around by those in charge in Pyongyang on the basis of irrelevant teachings
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