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During a Jan. 14 news program by NHK, Shinnosuke Kawashima, the Japanese public broadcaster’s Tehran bureau chief, described the atmosphere in the...
For decades, the idea of redirecting a small share of Siberia’s vast freshwater resources toward Central Asia has been considered a relic of...
When the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump demanded Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” I was reminded of Japan before the end of the...
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un will draw a dangerous conclusion from the U.S. and Israel’s strikes on Iran: Nuclear weapons are the ultimate...
A Japanese maker of high-tech toilets has been causing a splash in the world of artificial intelligence. Activist investor Palliser Capital recently...
This year’s Munich Security Conference brought plenty of talk about geopolitics, spheres of influence, the future of NATO and defense budgets. But...
I spent last week at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Just past the United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum and the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado...
Some people who live to 100 and beyond smoke, drink hard liquor and down a beer every evening. Others indulge in daily ice cream or even drink three...
In international relations, manifestly illegal government action can sometimes be morally defensible. While historical examples of legitimacy trumping...
If ever you needed a nudge to give your brain a workout, new research underscoring the benefits of "brain training” should offer fresh...
Wednesday marks 15 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. People the world over remember where they were and what...
As the conflict with Iran reshapes global security assumptions and energy markets, the debate in the United States has focused largely on why U.S....
When issuing their warnings about Western “civilizational erasure,” U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance often point to the...
Anthropic PBC made an announcement late last month that flew under the radar. Having sparked selloffs in the equity market with a relentless stream of...
The first fruits of a promised $550 billion investment agreement between the U.S. and Japan are already tainted with pollution. A unit of SoftBank...
Long before Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi drew Beijing’s ire by stating the obvious — that a Chinese military assault on Taiwan could be seen as...
Following the Liberal Democratic Party’s electoral landslide last month, the government has once again affirmed a familiar contradiction: Japan will...
This weekend, as the world marks International Women’s Day, the Hong Kong human-rights barrister Chow Hang-tung is preparing to return to court on...
It turns out, the biggest financial victim of U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran is not the S&P 500, but equity markets...
The ongoing war against Iran has raised a number of important issues: the ability of air power alone to achieve regime change, the ethics and...
If there is one key takeaway from the just-concluded Munich Security Conference, it is a message of trust and confidence in Europe. The European Union...
Within hours of the massive explosion near the Tehran compound of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Saturday morning, Israeli and...
Great minds go off on odd tangents. In 1930, John Maynard Keynes took time out from thinking about the Great Depression, which was throwing millions...
Those who view U.S. President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran as a blow to China should think again. Beijing will manage any potential leadership...
Sometimes the most important lessons in life involve what not to do. The Toyota group may have prevailed over minority shareholders in a buyout, but...
As Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney touches down in Tokyo this week, he steps onto a geopolitical chessboard that has been radically reconfigured...
I recently asked Claude to help me think through the structure of my next book. I already knew where the weak point was — I just wanted to see what...
U.S. President Donald Trump famously likes to build big things — or at least have others build big things to which he can attach his name. True to...
Little about the U.S. attacks on Iran makes sense. I will leave it to regional experts to explain the rationale behind and the impact of the strikes...
In authoritarian systems, national interests and objectives often conflict with the leader’s beliefs, desires and insecurities. The more centralized...
With a mandate after its Feb. 8 election victory, the Takaichi government will likely accelerate its planned revisions to Japan’s core...
India is getting richer every year, but its cities don’t seem to be getting any more livable. Not because the country is too poor, or because...
This is the face of diplomacy in 2026: A 64-year-old Japanese man with a Paddington bear plushie downing a pint and exclaiming, "That’s boss,...
In her recent meeting with families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi clarified her position that she is...
U.S. President Donald Trump never did explain to Congress or anyone else what his justifications and goals would be for attacking Iran. Now, with...
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s impressive victory in this month’s general election signifies a pivotal moment in the maturation of the Japanese...
Four years after Russia invaded Ukraine with its full might, how has the war changed its various protagonists? It’s a question worth asking, even...
Thailand may have seen its best economic days. The one-time star risks settling into a new — and entrenched — role as Southeast Asia’s laggard....
What we typically refer to as “artificial intelligence” is, in practice, a set of data-based systems. These technologies are already transforming...
This week marks the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. No one expected the war — except for a handful of intelligence analysts...
Japan has a proverb: “Hell if you retreat, hell if you advance.” It describes a situation in which no choice offers escape. Unfortunately, that is...
Much of Asia was celebrating the Year of the Horse this month. In Japan, which does not mark Lunar New Year, attention turns to a different animal....
Murders, torched cars and highway blockades. Bank branches set ablaze on otherwise empty streets. Tourists stranded in resorts in Puerto Vallarta....
Natsume Soseki, the great Meiji-era writer and scholar, famously said that “I love you” should be translated into Japanese as “Tsuki ga kirei...
As in Venezuela last month, as in Iraq in 2003 — as in so many places for thousands of years — and as appears to be unfolding in Iran now, the...
On a day that will be long remembered, Bangladesh’s interim leader, the 85-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, stepped down Monday...
It took almost a decade, but Chief Justice John Roberts and the Supreme Court finally found a way to stand up to President Donald Trump’s executive...
If you’re looking for the most politicized international sport, the sport most ridden with the visceral furies that pit nation against nation, look...
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio toned down the Trump administration’s criticisms of its European allies at the recent Munich Security Conference...
Did we just pass "peak solar"? That’s the claim now circulating among many analysts. Hitting net zero will require 630 gigawatts of panels...
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