TOKYO -- As the Group of Seven summit marks its 50th year in Canada this month, Japanese and European leaders will once again confront the issue their predecessors faced half a century ago -- how to prevent Washington from retreating into isolationism and keeping it engaged in the world.
"The 'postwar' period unquestionably ended -- not only for Japan, but the entire world -- on January 20, 2025," Gerald Curtis, an American political scientist and Japan expert, said at the Japan National Press Club in late May.
