Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made his concept of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific the centerpiece of Japan's foreign policy. Yet the idea has been badly promoted and remains poorly understood across Asia.
If the Abe government is to succeed in presenting an attractive alternative to China's Belt and Road Initiative, the huge infrastructure program which holds its second international forum in Beijing this week (starting April 25), Japan must be bolder in defining FOIP as a brand.
