In the fall of 2020, the National Security Agency made an alarming discovery: Chinese military hackers had compromised classified defense networks of the United States’ most important strategic ally in East Asia. Cyberspies from the People’s Liberation Army had wormed their way into Japan’s most sensitive computer systems. The hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be after anything t

Japan’s new prime minister is a third-generation politician. That’s more common than you might think. Newly elected Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center in first row, with his Cabinet members at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo on Oct. 4. (David Mareuil/Pool/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: Chinese need for conflict ‘deeply ingrained’ Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers questions in the House of Councilors budget committee session at Parliament in Tokyo on Feb. 19, 2013. (KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)