Chinpokomon Diplomacy

In a post-rule of law world, Japan bets on fantasies to see it through

In the accelerated “move fast and break nations” timeline we’re living in, seven days feels like seven years ago, but that is when Japan’s “otaku in chief” Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba flew in to Washington D.C. for a meeting with President Trump.

I knew this would be a weird sort of summit, but even I wasn’t prepared for the levels of weirdness we exp…