Ichiro Fujisaki

Between late on March 14, 2011, and early the next morning, a top secret diplomatic cable arrived at the Foreign Ministry.

The consensus that was developing in the teleconference that began at 1:30 a.m. on March 16, 2011, U.S. Eastern Standard Time, demonstrated the extent to which the U.S....

At 9 a.m. on March 16, 2011, Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, invited Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki into his office in...

By the afternoon of March 15, 2011, the Defense Ministry had prepared a rough plan to cool the overheating reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant by using...

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, summoned Ichiro Fujisaki, the Japanese ambassador, to the Pentagon at 4:30 p.m. on March 29, 2011. It was 5:30 a.m....

Editor's note: This is the final part of a series that has run in the past under the overall title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the different responses...

Editor's note: This is the fifth part of a series that has run in the past under the overall title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the different responses...

Editor's note: This is the fourth part of a series that has run in the past under the overall title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the differences between Japan ...

Editor's note: This is the third part of a series that has run in the past under the overall title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the differences between Japan...

WASHINGTON--Japan said Oct. 11 its security alliance with the U.S. is an important deterrent against conflict breaking out between China and Japan over disputed islands.

WASHINGTON--One hundred years ago, when Tokyo sent 3,020 cherry trees to the United States as a token of friendship, the Japanese presenters could have never imagined the...