Yuriko Koike

North-east Asia on the brink (again)

By Yuriko Koike -

30 April

China’s refusal to attend this year’s summit with Japan and South Korea as scheduled comes at a trying moment for all three countries.

Asia to project power into the Mideast?

By Yuriko Koike -

21 March

When the consequences of the United States-led invasion of Iraq 10 years ago are fully assessed, the importance of the subsequent rise of political Islam there — and throughout...

Farewell Hillary, for now

By Yuriko Koike -

31 January

F Scott Fitzgerald famously said that “there are no second acts in American lives”. Hillary Clinton’s stunning (and, I trust, unfinished) career — from First Lady to United...

North Korea’s blackmail missile

By Yuriko Koike -

24 December

The Unha-3 rocket launched from Sohae in North Korea on the morning of Dec 12 could be considered a mild surprise, because South Korean intelligence sources had suggested it had...