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LIBREVILLE/LOS ANGELES – Africa is facing one of the world’s great energy windfalls. The continent holds roughly 125 billion barrels of confirmed...
It’s increasingly difficult to make sense of U.S. foreign policy. It’s not unusual for there to be a divergence between strategy and statements,...
The transparency revolution in central banking proved unstoppable for three decades. Gone were the days when global monetary institutions operated as...
Japan’s defense posture has long relied on doublethink. How else can you explain the nation’s ability to simultaneously be devoutly opposed to...
Following U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran in February, Tehran responded by imposing a de facto blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The strait’s geography...
When the No Surprises Act took effect in 2022, it was a rare feat of bipartisan problem-solving. The law was meant to prevent a once all-too-common...
Japan’s Upper House recently passed the first substantive revision of the Imperial House Law since it took effect in 1947. Beginning Oct. 24, the...
Recent reporting says Russian President Vladimir Putin is considering testing the resolve and combat responses of NATO over the next couple of years....
In early August just before Japan entered its midsummer vacation week, some drama unfolded within Tokyo’s bureaucratic apparatus. The Asahi Shimbun...
It appears that Donald Trump is livid at Pete Hegseth. Not long ago the president still cooed that his macho secretary of defense “loves war,”...
Grand foreign-policy strategies rarely disappear overnight. More often, they are dismantled gradually through subtle rhetorical shifts, bureaucratic...
SEOUL – Around the world, governments are again using the tools of industrial policy — subsidies, tax incentives, public finance, trade measures...
China dominates drone manufacturing. DJI, the Chinese drone maker Da-Jiang Innovations, alone holds roughly 70% of the global market and its...
The market, as I have noted before, is a small miracle. All these people come together — sellers, buyers, go-betweens — with different...
The story of Ukraine’s defense against Russian invasion is one of remarkable resilience, punctuated by tragedies of mistiming that have prevented it...
We seem to have avoided the Thucydides Trap. The inevitable conflict triggered by the insecurity in the world’s leading power created by the rise of...
As the clearest political heir to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi faces a defining question: Can she preserve Abe’s...
NEW YORK – Colombia is undergoing one of the most consequential political transitions in its recent history with right-wing President-elect Abelardo...
Early this month, the Immigration Services Agency proposed a nationwide guideline concerning Japanese language and daily life orientation for foreign...
When Nvidia founder Jensen Huang was in Tokyo last month, the most surprising place he visited wasn’t a chip supplier or even video game maker Sega...
The Strait of Hormuz isn’t the only Middle Eastern naval choke point under threat: In the Red Sea, vital shipping is being disrupted by an Iranian...
Today’s Indo-Pacific is hyperconnected. Information is no longer merely a medium for public discourse. It has become a strategic battlespace between...
ABU DHABI – In 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to share evidence of Russian war crimes with the International...
England bowed out in the 2026 World Cup semifinals, disappointing a nation that has waited 60 years to appear in a second final. Never mind: Time may...
Nearly half a century after Edward Said published his landmark book “Orientalism,” his central insight remains strikingly relevant. Said argued...
At 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 1945, the U.S. atomic bomb nicknamed “Fat Man” detonated 500 meters above Nagasaki, unleashing a blast that engulfed...
In many nations summer is synonymous with open-air rock festivals. Japan is no exception. No event looms larger there than Fuji Rock, the nation’s...
The “Dark Side of the Moon” has been in clear view for some time now. I’m referring to the Chinese name for Moonshot, the Beijing-based lab...
Japan’s athletes have thrilled sports fans around the world with memorable victories and heartbreaking defeats in sports as varied as soccer,...
Japanese biologist Tomitaro Makino believed that “there is no such thing as a weed.” Instead, he insisted that the label depends on the larger...
Ten years ago, Australia’s main stock exchange decided its future lay in a radical shift to clearing and settling share trades using the blockchain....
At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, the morning rush had begun in Hiroshima. Streetcars rattled through the city, office workers settled at their desks and...
As the U.S. relationship with some traditional allies fractured during the second Trump administration, ties with Tokyo have only improved. Now, after...
If there was a coordinated attempt across the Pacific to strengthen the yen, then the Bank of Japan was the weakest link. Whatever happened with...
RABAT – What is the most reliable development path for an increasingly fragmented global economy? China and India, the world’s two most populous...
When more than 500 Rohingya were feared drowned in the Bay of Bengal last month, foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...
Artificial intelligence is already transforming warfare, whether it’s waged by missile, drone or satellite; on land or sea, or in the air, space or...
It’s the movie event of the summer: A spectacle in which our protagonist journeys to mysterious islands, encountering monsters and sirens, and...
A thoughtful essay by a Japanese author, circulated anonymously within a private discussion group to which I belong, captured a sentiment many people...
Not for the first time since he began a six-week war with Iran five months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump finds himself stuck. He told the world...
At the recent North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada repeatedly emphasized that his nation is undertaking a...
At a gathering of central bankers recently in Basel, Switzerland, Harvard University economist Gita Gopinath presented some unsettling data about...
Iran has launched large numbers of one-way attack drones costing only thousands of dollars each into the Persian Gulf, complicating operations for...
I’m a doom scroller — I wrote “Peak Japan,” remember? — so I’ve been captivated by “Europe 2031,” a speculative future history that...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s disclosure recently that Russia is seeking as many as 30,000 additional North Korean troops — nearly...
U.S. President Donald Trump made a highly unusual diplomatic move this week. His July 28 meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took...
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi styles herself after Margaret Thatcher, who famously was not for turning. But successful long-term governing sometimes...
Donald Trump has waded into the furor over his administration’s reported, but as yet unpublished, nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, posting on Truth...
In a step forward, Japan is strengthening Japanese-language education for children with foreign backgrounds. Schools and municipalities are expanding...
GENEVA/LONDON – In a recent New York Times essay, Northeastern University psychology professor David DeSteno posed a provocative question: Can...
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