Wandering the streets of Tokyo’s Roppongi district on a wet night, you know where film director Ridley Scott got the inspiration for his dystopian Los Angeles in Blade Runner. Multicolored neon; ...

If you are living in the U.S. or Western Europe and feeling pretty bad about the miserable state of the recovery, political paralysis, and growing unease about your country’s future, remember things ...

CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. The photos and videos of the aftermath of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami are devastating: freezing and emotionally numbed ...

In his report to the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), held in Beijing last month, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Hu Jintao said emphatically that the theme ...

Japan's aging workforce, labor shortages, and government policies show how the country has adapted as 30% of its population ...

Some experts have observed that the current global financial crisis resembles the collapse of Japan’s bubble economy in the early 1990s. And indeed, the under­lying behavior was the same: Financial ...

This year has seen a spate of retrospective analyses of the horrific war in Europe that began July 28 a century ago, so named the Great War for its unprecedented scale, death count, and destabilizing ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan, July 14 (Reuters) - Long before American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos made history with their Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics, another poignant image of silent ...

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story attributed a quote to the incorrect Subaru executive. It should have attributed the quote to Kazuyuki Muneta, senior general manager of Subaru’s ...