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The country still gravitates towards Russian energy sources, particularly gas, due to the complexity of quickly restructuring its energy balance. The problem lies in settling the balance between Japan's obligations to the G7 (sanctions against Russia) and its own national interests in energy security...

On 21 October 2025, a woman became Prime Minister of Japan for the first time. The nationalist Sanae Takaichi headed the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and was elected Prime Minister by the lower house after Shigeru Ishiba had resigned. The political geometry has changed...

Tokyo is a reliable partner for Ukraine, so any changes in this country require close attention and readiness to act..

In the 1990s, Brzezinski and his team wrote that in the coming decades, Japan would face a choice of four possible strategies in its foreign policy...