We Should Move Our Commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day

We must bring up an idea that is hard to digest for public discussion. It should be done with awe and reverence, but with courage, and perhaps the...

College exam literature section optional? Worry fills my heart

Philosopher Tatsuru Uchida says he never minds how and where his writings are quoted. In fact, he welcomes their being used, especially in school...

Expiating Western Guilt

Before the 1970s, there were few Holocaust memorial ceremonies. Survivors were “the other,” and we – the “pioneering subject.” This...

USFK as 'form of aid'

Troops in South Korea represent common interests The Donald Trump administration's perception of the U.S. troop presence in South Korea,...

Abe should offer specific plan to correct deficit-ridden budget

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s policy speech to kick off this year’s ordinary Diet session gave no signs of a serious commitment to improving the...

Putin the immortal?

By Gwynne Dyer Five years ago somebody posted photographs on the internet showing a man who looked a lot like Vladimir Putin in photographs from...

U.S. has long been a master at meddling in Russia

NEW YORK – Russia — OK, not the actual Russian government but a private click-farm company located in Russia — bought $100,000 worth of...

Putin is more dangerous than ever

WASHINGTON – With a surprise announcement in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin this past week laid down the path allowing him to wield...

Cambodia is criminalizing democracy

PARIS – The sham trial of Kem Sokha, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) leader, is underway. How the world responds will send a powerful...

Time for Japan to take on a new role

NEW YORK – 2020 has gotten off to a frighteningly rocky start. The mounting global tensions of 2019 have continued to simmer at an ever-higher...

Real winner of trade deal

By Lee Seong-hyon Some believe that the first phase of the U.S.-China deal to end the trade war is China's defeat. However, Vice Premier Liu He,...

China's rise: comparisons to past

By Alex Gratzek As an avid student of history and reader of current events, I can't help but look at China's increasingly swagger in the world and...

How loss turns into win for liberal Hollywood

By Peter Roff As comedian Ricky Gervais said so pointedly during the Golden Globes, Hollywood is full of people with no experience in the real...

'Smile, Tonj'

By Kim Ae-ran The movie "Don't Cry, Tonj II" has been released in memory of the 10th anniversary of death of Salesian Fr. Lee Tae-seok, who passed...

WEF gathering at Davos is no longer so elitist

Davos is a picturesque holiday resort in Switzerland. And, once every year, it hosts the World Economic Forum. The summit is no longer the elitist...

Mystery scientifically proved but mystical feelings remain PREMIUM

At parks, at private homes and at schools, we used to see fallen leaves being burned everywhere at this time in winter. I had a strange, somewhat...

Iran’s Weak Point

The starting point for examining the continuation of the American-Iranian conflict should take into account that the initial Iranian response to...

Trump Is Failing to Protect Israel Against Iran

The beginning of the final and critical year of President Donald Trump’s first term, during which we will find out whether he is reelected to a...

Who Pays for the Green Deal?

MUNICH – Under President Ursula von der Leyen, the new European Commission has big plans to address climate change. With a €1 trillion ($1.1...

BBC faces existential threat. In the 21st century, it has nobody left to lie to

The next director general of the BBC will be formally appointed by Sir David Clementi, educated at Winchester, Oxford and Harvard, a former deputy...

Is India's new Su-30MKI fighter squadron with BrahMos missiles enough to calm China in the region?

In a step toward enhancing jointness, Chief of the Defense Staff General Bipin Rawat inaugurated a new squadron at Thanjavur Air Force Station in...

El valor de la comunidad en tiempos de crisis

La situación que ha vivido Chile durante los últimos meses nos ha dejado atónitos, pero hay que reconocer que los hechos actuales de violencia...

Risk of low interest rate

Monetary easing should be economic stimulus of last resort The Bank of Korea kept its policy rate unchanged at 1.25 percent Friday, drawing...

No opposition from the international community as Israel alters the two-state paradigm

The EU is predicting an increase in Israeli demolitions of Palestinian dwellings and structures in the occupied West Bank, thus perpetuating the...

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The Case for Consumption Equality

NEW YORK – Discussions about economic development often focus on how to increase income equality. More recently, however, thoughtful observers...

Zoe Quinn & Anita Sarkeesian, twin queens of Gamergate, turned feminist victimhood into a career, then cheated their followers

Sarkeesian was an online pioneer of a certain type of feminist game criticism that appeared to dismiss most games as a form of digitalized misogyny...

Trump Transforms the Middle East into NATO's "Area of Responsibility"

There’s been no shortage of cultural and political figures over the last couple of centuries who would show interest towards the incredibly rich...

The Mad Geopolitics of Israel’s EastMed Gas Pipeline

At just a time when the world holds its collective breath over risk of a World War over the US assassination of Iran’s leading general and other...

US Actions in Iraq May Reshape the Region to its Disadvantage

Ever since Qasim Soleimani’s killing in a US drone strike in Iraq, a momentum for driving the US of the region seems to be building up. Iran, of...

Korean Peninsula and the Crisis in the Middle East

The beginning of January 2020 was marked by an exchange of blows between the United States and Iran, which could potentially lead to a further...

Can European Migrant Crisis be Resolved?

Since 2015, the flow of refugees escaping unending wars in the Middle East and Africa, which the United States and European nations are engaged in,...

‘Asian-American actors are ugly & your films make us look backward’: Hollywood sets movies in China, locals don’t want to watch

The critically adored American film, which tells the story of a Chinese-American woman who returns to her ancestral homeland to visit her dying...

Colombia y el cumplimiento de la meta de inflación en la década

La inflación del 2019 fue de 3,8 % en Colombia. Este valor, es superior a lo observado en 2018 (3,18 %) y se encuentra en el rango meta...

Where India fits in Japan’s Indo-Pacific strategy

NEW DELHI – The arrival of China as a major actor in the international system is causing structural shifts in the distribution of power as it...

Why AI Will Not Abolish Work

VIENNA – The diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI) across the economy has raised the possibility – and for many, the fear – that machines...

Hong Kong was the protest story of 2019. This year it’s Modi’s India

As winter bites and temperatures plummet to levels not seen in more than a century, the political wildfire ravaging India shows no signs of...

Pulling a Xi Jinping? Vladimir Putin’s power play for modern Russia is not what you think

Back in 2005, a year after the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, I asked a taxi driver in the port city of Odessa how things were going in that post-...

In the name of ‘Israel’s security’, retreating US gives it billions more in military aid

Billions of US taxpayers’ dollars will continue to be funnelled into Israel in the next fiscal year, and for many years in the foreseeable...

Edelstein, the Newest Target

Likud is the most democratic party in Israel, but only as long as it has a majority. When the numbers are against them, Likud politicians will do...

Japan's justice minister: Carlos Ghosn fled a fair system

Suspects get better protections than in many other democracies

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Japan going the wrong way in English-education reform

KIZUGAWA, KYOTO PREF. – Beginning in the 2020 academic year, which starts this April, teaching of English will become mandatory at elementary...

The resumption of limited US support for the PA does not solve its financial crisis

In December, the US Congress agreed to transfer $150 million to the Palestinian Authority and renew the aid that President Donald Trump had frozen...

Workers march to Piazza Duomo in protest of the ‘Salvini decree’

Reportage. ‘We are in the streets to say that we want more rights, more dignity in the workplace and more solidarity, and to call, loud and clear,...

Taiwan's courageous president

Taiwan's liberal president, Tsai Ing-wen, has been re-elected, and the island has once again confirmed its democratic character and difference from...