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Last week Tokyo was caught up in an unprecedented media frenzy over the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. Having followed, officially or personally, almost...
I am writing this piece on an ANA flight from Washington to Narita. My uncontrollable curiosity about what’s happening in the United States made...
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Are the United States and Iran headed for a direct military confrontation? The Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS), a Tokyo-based independent...
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