Editorial

We need to talk about Japan: Tokyo’s damaging role in Southeast Asia

While China is often criticised for the negative influence it wields over Southeast Asian affairs, Japan's role in backing authoritarian regimes and promoting rights abuses in the region remains far less publicised, but arguably no less pernicious
Alastair McCready
June 26, 2020


We need to talk about Japan: Tokyo’s damaging role in Southeast Asia
Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (right) delivers a speech next to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo in 2018. Photo: Franck Robichon/Pool/AFP