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Steve Herman, formerly White House Bureau Chief, is now VOA's Chief National Correspondent. Herman spent more than a quarter of a century in Asia, including years of reporting from Tokyo and ...

As he urged a united front on a rising China and bellicose North Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told Western powers that East Asia could be the next Ukraine. Kicking off Japan's year ...