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Colombia’s new right-wing government faces an uphill battle

Colombia’s new right-wing government faces an uphill battle

NEW YORK – Colombia is undergoing one of the most consequential political transitions in its recent history with right-wing President-elect Abelardo...

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Jose Antonio Ocampo

What Japan’s language rules for permanent residency should look like

What Japan’s language rules for permanent residency should look like

Early this month, the Immigration Services Agency proposed a nationwide guideline concerning Japanese language and daily life orientation for foreign...

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Midori Inagaki

At Jensen Huang’s favorite Japan pub, it’s not last call yet

At Jensen Huang’s favorite Japan pub, it’s not last call yet

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...

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Gearoid Reidy

Saudi Arabia can break the Houthis’ grip on the Red Sea

Saudi Arabia can break the Houthis’ grip on the Red Sea

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...

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James Stavridis

How disinformation on X imperils Japan’s democracy

How disinformation on X imperils Japan’s democracy

Today’s Indo-Pacific is hyperconnected. Information is no longer merely a medium for public discourse. It has become a strategic battlespace between...

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Stephen R. Nagy

America is betting against international law

America is betting against international law

ABU DHABI – In 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to share evidence of Russian war crimes with the International...

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Eric Alter

Half a month out, and England was a World Cup winner after all

Half a month out, and England was a World Cup winner after all

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...

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Matthew Brooker

Nationalists abroad and patriots at home

Nationalists abroad and patriots at home

Nearly half a century after Edward Said published his landmark book “Orientalism,” his central insight remains strikingly relevant. Said argued...

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Brahma Chellaney

Nagasaki 81 years on: Learn what hibakusha know

Nagasaki 81 years on: Learn what hibakusha know

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...

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Annelise Riles

Flag-waving at Fuji Rock: Conviction or fashion?

Flag-waving at Fuji Rock: Conviction or fashion?

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...

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Yukari Easton

Can Moonshot’s Kimi K3 now stay in orbit?

Can Moonshot’s Kimi K3 now stay in orbit?

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...

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Catherine Thorbecke

Japan’s winning sports tradition shouldn’t include abuse

Japan’s winning sports tradition shouldn’t include abuse

Japan’s athletes have thrilled sports fans around the world with memorable victories and heartbreaking defeats in sports as varied as soccer,...

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Kanae Doi And Hanna Yumura

New words to live by, new worlds to occupy

New words to live by, new worlds to occupy

Japanese biologist Tomitaro Makino believed that “there is no such thing as a weed.” Instead, he insisted that the label depends on the larger...

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Brad Glosserman

Bankers are doing grown-up stuff with crypto now

Bankers are doing grown-up stuff with crypto now

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....

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Lionel Laurent

Make anniversary of Hiroshima bombing ‘Disarmament Day’

Make anniversary of Hiroshima bombing ‘Disarmament Day’

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...

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William Lambers

How safe is the yen under the U.S. umbrella?

How safe is the yen under the U.S. umbrella?

As the U.S. relationship with some traditional allies fractured during the second Trump administration, ties with Tokyo have only improved. Now, after...

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Gearoid Reidy And Daniel Moss

The transpacific yen team has a weak link in Ueda

The transpacific yen team has a weak link in Ueda

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...

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Gearoid Reidy

The limits of Asia’s two major growth models

The limits of Asia’s two major growth models

RABAT – What is the most reliable development path for an increasingly fragmented global economy? China and India, the world’s two most populous...

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Hinh T. Dinh — Karim El Aynaoui

The Rohingya drown while ASEAN debates oil

The Rohingya drown while ASEAN debates oil

When more than 500 Rohingya were feared drowned in the Bay of Bengal last month, foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...

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Imran Khalid

The real reasons to be terrified about AI and WMD

The real reasons to be terrified about AI and WMD

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...

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Andreas Kluth

In Japan, ‘Odysseus’ is scared of tiny, cute ‘Chiikawa’

In Japan, ‘Odysseus’ is scared of tiny, cute ‘Chiikawa’

It’s the movie event of the summer: A spectacle in which our protagonist journeys to mysterious islands, encountering monsters and sirens, and...

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Gearoid Reidy

Beyond the language of decline: Hope for democratic renewal

Beyond the language of decline: Hope for democratic renewal

A thoughtful essay by a Japanese author, circulated anonymously within a private discussion group to which I belong, captured a sentiment many people...

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Kumiharu Shigehara

A misdiagnosis of U.S. failings leaves Trump stuck in Iran

A misdiagnosis of U.S. failings leaves Trump stuck in Iran

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...

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Marc Champion

How Canada can gear up for the Arctic ‘Great Game’

How Canada can gear up for the Arctic ‘Great Game’

At the recent North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada repeatedly emphasized that his nation is undertaking a...

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James Stavridis

Stablecoin is the wrong weapon in U.S.-China fight

Stablecoin is the wrong weapon in U.S.-China fight

At a gathering of central bankers recently in Basel, Switzerland, Harvard University economist Gita Gopinath presented some unsettling data about...

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Andy Mukherjee

What Ukraine and Iran teach us about deterrence

What Ukraine and Iran teach us about deterrence

Iran has launched large numbers of one-way attack drones costing only thousands of dollars each into the Persian Gulf, complicating operations for...

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Hirohito Ogi

Read ‘Europe 2031’ and act now to avoid its grim predictions

Read ‘Europe 2031’ and act now to avoid its grim predictions

I’m a doom scroller — I wrote “Peak Japan,” remember? — so I’ve been captivated by “Europe 2031,” a speculative future history that...

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Brad Glosserman

North Korea proves Europe and Indo-Pacific are connected

North Korea proves Europe and Indo-Pacific are connected

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s disclosure recently that Russia is seeking as many as 30,000 additional North Korean troops — nearly...

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Jonathan Berkshire Miller

Behind the White House’s closed-door diplomacy

Behind the White House’s closed-door diplomacy

U.S. President Donald Trump made a highly unusual diplomatic move this week. His July 28 meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took...

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Kuni Miyake

Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’ may need to bend, not break

Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’ may need to bend, not break

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi styles herself after Margaret Thatcher, who famously was not for turning. But successful long-term governing sometimes...

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Gearoid Reidy

Trump’s Saudi nuclear deal is too important to lie about

Donald Trump has waded into the furor over his administration’s reported, but as yet unpublished, nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, posting on Truth...

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Marc Champion

Japan’s overlooked language crisis

In a step forward, Japan is strengthening Japanese-language education for children with foreign backgrounds. Schools and municipalities are expanding...

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Midori Inagaki

Overcoming the AI wisdom gap

GENEVA/LONDON – In a recent New York Times essay, Northeastern University psychology professor David DeSteno posed a provocative question: Can...

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Dana Humaid Al Marzouqi — Joanna Shields

Why can’t Indian immigrants influence policy in America?

As America’s congressional midterm campaigns gather momentum, politicians from both parties will once again court Indian-American voters, donors and...

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Brahma Chellaney

What Trump’s new global order means for Japan

Just 18 months into his second term and with the U.S. midterm elections approaching, U.S. President Donald Trump has generated a remarkable number of...

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Yuichi Hosoya

Baseball’s AI crackdown is an overreaction

Fresh off the recent All-Star break, Major League Baseball took aim at artificial intelligence. As the season resumed, clubs were barred from using AI...

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Adam Minter

The world’s biggest economies face a dangerous imbalance problem

SEOUL – Global imbalances are again dominating international economic debates and with good reason. Large and persistent imbalances often end badly,...

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Lee Jong-Wha

Sanae Takaichi: The prime minister nobody defended

When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi visited Australia in May, she brought her host a gift chosen with diplomatic care: Crown Melons from...

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Waka Ikeda

Nicaragua’s dictatorship should be Marco Rubio’s next problem

It’s rare these days to hear a dictator openly admit he won’t bother holding elections. Even the world’s most brutal authoritarian regimes...

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Juan Pablo Spinetto

Why Iran’s hardline regime won’t change

CHICAGO – As the funeral of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in the opening wave of U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in February, drew to a...

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Pegah Banihashemi

Games that allow athletes to use drugs that boost performance

MELBOURNE – The inaugural Enhanced Games, held in Las Vegas in May, allowed participating athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs. The Games’...

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Peter Singer

Japan’s wedding gifts are leaving couples deflated

At a wedding, rigidity usually means keeping everyone vertical as the drinks start to flow. In Japan, it also describes a growing problem with the...

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Gearoid Reidy

Sagamihara survivor shows what inclusion can look like

Ten years after Japan’s deadliest mass stabbing, one of the survivors of the brutal attack at the Tsukui Yamayuri-en residential facility has become...

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Michael Gillan Peckitt

What the ‘Chinamaxxing’ crowd doesn’t get

Authoritarian regimes often project strength. But history suggests the opposite: Systems built on fear and political loyalty ultimately undermine the...

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Stephen R. Nagy

America is closing the door on opportunity — and talent

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut – For generations, the United States distinguished itself not simply by its wealth or military power, but by offering...

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Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

The world has an anchovy problem

One of the world’s current hottest commodities is in the midst of a huge disruption. It may sound like I’m talking about oil and the blockade of...

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Javier Blas

Energy efficiency is no communist plot

Of all the culture-war flash points that could become political wedge issues, you might think “don’t waste energy” would be toward the bottom of...

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Mark Gongloff

Why Nepal’s Gen Z protestors are back in the streets

Ten months ago, Nepal’s Generation Z helped bring down a prime minister, then swept a new government into office on promises of accountability and...

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Brabim Karki

Indonesia is losing the fight against corruption

Corruption isn’t a new problem in Indonesia, but a spate of recent scandals is threatening an already fragile investment climate at a time when the...

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Karishma Vaswani

Can Germany become a reliable pillar of European security?

This month marked 18 months since the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump. From contentious tariff negotiations and remarks hinting at U.S....

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Kikyo Taguchi