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President Vladimir Putin has signed a presidential decree to lower Russia’s threshold on the use of nuclear weapons. This move carries...
Steeped in “tradition and formality,” Wimbledon imposes a strict dress code on tennis players participating in championship tournaments. Their...
In a democracy, it is common practice for anti-government advocates to seek to have their preferred candidates win a majority in a parliamentary...
Poets Shoichi Nejime and Shuntaro Tanikawa once performed an impromptu “manzai” double-act comedy that turned out to be a delightful verbal...
In the Nov. 17 Hyogo Prefecture gubernatorial election, the former governor, Motohiko Saito, was re-elected. Saito’s initially unexpected...
The outcome of the Nov. 17 gubernatorial election in Hyogo Prefecture must have made many people shake their heads, uncomprehending. Governor...
I once witnessed a public execution in China. It was in the early summer of 1993. As a student studying abroad, I was traveling in the Tibet...
The relationship between neighboring countries tends to be dogged by a raft of sticky issues, which makes communication between the leaders...
Three years ago, scientists in Australia and New Zealand proposed suspending climate change research until the governments of nations around the...
A private-sector panel made up of academics, legislators and other experts has called for a fundamental review of the problem-plagued death...