Tag: Japan

National Security

Islamic State beheads second Japanese captive

Justin Green · January 31, 2015 10:25 pm

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to the media after he signed a book of condolence for the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at Saudi Arabian Embassy in Tokyo Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Obama offers condolences to Japan after Islamic State execution

Sarah Bedford · January 25, 2015 5:44 pm

A news program reports on two Japanese hostages held by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, in Tokyo on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

National Security

U.S. says no on Islamic State’s prisoner-swap demand

Jennifer Peebles · January 25, 2015 4:17 pm

Obama Confirms Islamic State Murder of Japanese Man

Daniel Halper · January 24, 2015 8:38 pm

Japanese prisonerÂ Kenji Goto Jogo holding a photo of his beheaded fellow captive in new Islamic State video. (Photo by SITE)

National Security

Islamic State beheads Japanese prisoner

Justin Green · January 24, 2015 6:22 pm

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew leaves at the conclusion of the open session of the Financial Stability Oversight Council at the Treasury Department in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Jack Lew tells Europe: U.S. is doing better than you

Joseph Lawler · January 24, 2015 10:00 am

ISIS: Counting Down to Murder

Geoffrey Norman · January 23, 2015 7:35 pm

Japanese Leader to ‘Express Remorse’ for World War II

Daniel Halper · January 5, 2015 12:32 pm

Security guard walk past the Chinese national flag at the Military Museum of Chinese People's Revolution on March 1, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Photo by China Photos/Getty images)

2015: Will China continue to probe its neighbors?

Austin Bay · January 2, 2015 7:06 pm

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference at his official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. Abe approved a $27 billion economic stimulus package Saturday (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

The world’s third largest economy just approved a $29 billion economic stimulus

Justin Green · December 27, 2014 1:05 pm

In this Dec. 2, 2014 file photo, Sony Pictures Entertainment headquarters in Culver City, Calif. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, FIle)

National Security

South Korea and Japan condemn North Korean cyber attacks

Kelly Cohen · December 20, 2014 4:56 pm

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Narayana Kocherlakota, one of three dissenting votes from the Fed's monetary policy announcement Wednesday, issued a statement Friday in which he warned that the Fed's "failure to respond to weak inflation runs the risk of creating a harmful downward slide in inflation and longer-term inflation expectations of the kind that we have seen in Japan and Europe."(AP Photo/John Locher)

Fed official: Fed is risking Japan-style deflation

Joseph Lawler · December 19, 2014 4:56 pm