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The "two-plus-two" security talks between the foreign and defense ministers of the U.S. and Japan in Tokyo last month were a pleasant surprise and out...
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Two weeks ago, I was in Seoul and wrote about South Korea’s 386 Generation. This anti-American, anti-Japanese, pro-communist generation is, as I see...
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Dear President Xi Jinping, It has been a few years since I wrote my last letters to you, in 2021 and 2022. It goes without saying that I was well...
Until very recently, I was rather optimistic that the United States and Iran would avoid a direct war. Although Tehran may not have directed Hamas to...
In democratic nations, there are consequential elections that alter the trajectory of politics. The December 2012 general election in Japan, which...
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Once again, so many Japanese have been torched online in 2023 for being tone-deaf. The chairman of Keidanren, for example, when asked in December...
Last week, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger passed away at the age of 100. Although he has been both praised and criticized globally, I...