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As Russia continues to dominate Washington’s domestic politics and threatens European cohesion on a daily basis, one country has been consistently courting the Kremlin with enthusiasm: Japan. Tokyo has pursued a rapprochement with Moscow ever since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned to power in December 2012. His agenda has survived everything from Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea to its armed intervention in Syria. The upshot has been a belief in Tokyo that a potential breakthrough is near in the Far East’s forgotten frozen conflict — with significant geopolitical implications at both regional and global …read more
Russia–Japan Relations in the Era of Trump
