The upcoming LDP leadership race will test whether Seoul and Tokyo can preserve the fragile progress made in recent years.

For the first time since 1994, the ruling LDP coalition controls neither chamber of the Japanese legislature.

The leading candidate's attempts to moderate his position suggest Japan may not be as controversial in domestic politics as it has been.

The decision to shutter these agencies impacts their important role in the Indo-Pacific region broadly and on the Korean Peninsula.

The U.S. needs ships, and the ROK is a major manufacturer of them, which makes it natural that the two allies would partner on this issue.

Although the US-Korea-Japan trilateral relationship may face new challenges under the incoming Donald Trump administration, cooperation between the three countries will likely persist.