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COMMENTARY / Japan

More investment is needed to strengthen U.S.-Japan collaboration

The partnership can’t be taken for granted without support for building expertise

The American and Japanese flags are posted on the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House in Washington in preparation for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's state visit to the United States this week.

The American and Japanese flags are posted on the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House in Washington in preparation for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's state visit to the United States this week. | AFP-JIJI

By Susan Berresford and Kazuyo Kato
Contributing Writers

Apr 8, 2024

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s state visit to meet with United States President Joe Biden this week will be “historic,” according to U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell.

This is only Kishida’s second such visit since 2015. At the urging of a bipartisan group of U.S. senators, the prime minister will speak at a joint session of the U.S. Congress. The same day, he will attend the first-ever U.S.-Japan-Philippines trilateral summit.

The visit signifies the crucial importance of the U.S.-Japan alliance in the context of rising geopolitical tensions and economic competition in the Indo-Pacific region.

Amid the heat and humidity in Japan, a good night’s sleep is growing increasingly elusive without the heavy use of air conditioning.

Summer has arrived in Japan and so have hot sleepless nights

By Tomoko Otake

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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