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The North Korea Factor

Comparative Connections Daily Digest North Korea emerges as a factor in South Korea-Japan relations North Korea only recently became a factor in South Korea-Japan ties. Prompted by a shared concern...

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Back to Normal Business

Comparative Connections Daily Digest Standstill: Pyongyang-Tokyo relations At the end of April, there was increasing optimism that North Kora and Japan might pursue diplomatic normalization in the...

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Unfortunate Circumstances and Escalating Tensions

Comparative Connections Daily Digest Japan responds to the Trump-Kim summit Notwithstanding President Trump’s declaration that “there is no nuclear threat from North Korea,” the Trump-Kim summit...

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Hitting an All-Time Low

Comparative Connections Daily Digest Japan adjusts its North Korea policy Kim Jong Un’s April visit to Russia left Japan as the last major regional power without a serious engagement process with North...

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Cold Economics, Cold Politics

Comparative Connections Daily Digest South Korea’s Court ruling and Japan’s export restrictions In the early months of 2019, the dispute over the Korean forced labor compensation rulings by South...

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Thaws and Tremors

Comparative Connections Daily Digest Importantly, this progress came in a different strategic context from previous months, raising the possibility that both countries were influenced by a desire to...

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Pragmatic Stability, Latent Tensions

Comparative Connections Daily Digest North Korea’s Short-Range Projectiles and Kim Jong Un’s Whereabouts  Even while the world was tackling COVID-19, two major developments concerning North Korea...

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History, Trade, and Distrust

Comparative Connections Daily Digest Japan’s 2020 Defense White Paper and North Korea Defense of Japan 2020 is noteworthy for its assessment that “North Korea is considered to have miniaturized nuclear...

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A New Leader in Japan and Uncertain Future Scenarios

Comparative Connections Daily Digest South Korea reached out to Japan, perhaps with eyes on the planned Tokyo Olympics in 2021, to use the occasion as a platform for a diplomatic breakthrough between...

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Difficult to Disentangle: History and Foreign Policy

Comparative Connections Daily Digest Figure 1 Protesters call for the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics in front of the organizing committee’s offices in Tokyo, February 2021. Photo: Reuters/Kim...

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