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November 6, 2015

Sub-Saharan Africa
M-Akiba: Kenya’s Revolutionary Mobile Phone Bond Offering 

This is a guest post by Allen Grane, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. The government of Kenya is tapping the country’s digital finance prowess to raise…

Conducting an M-PESA

October 16, 2023

Japan
Doden Aiko: Answering a Journalist’s Calling

Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) Special Affairs Commentator Doden Aiko offers her insights from working as a correspondent and field reporter around the world.

Doden Aiko, Special Affairs Commentator at NHK

December 17, 2020

South Korea
Returning Seoul-Tokyo Relations to Normalcy

Worsening Japan-South Korea relations have unprecedented ramifications for the economic and security fields.

Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi shakes hands with South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha before the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Nagoya, Japan, on November 23, 2019.

December 21, 2020

Japan
Japan-South Korea Relations and the Biden Factor

President-Elect Biden and his team come at a critical time for Japan-South Korea relations.

Japan's Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki (C), U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) , and South Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Lim Sung-nam pose at the start of their trilateral meeting, at the foreign ministry's Iikura guest house in Tokyo, Japan.

April 8, 2016

China
Friday Asia Update: Five Stories From the Week of April 8, 2016

Rachel Brown, Lincoln Davidson, Gabriella Meltzer, Gabriel Walker, and Pei-Yu Wei look at five stories from Asia this week. 1. Corruption and combat thwart counternarcotics efforts in Afghanistan. T…

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