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When a supply shock hits a product for which there’s no alternative — toilet paper during COVID-19, for instance — there’s not much people can...
As the U.S.-Israeli military strikes on Iran continue — and threaten to draw reluctant NATO allies deeper into a widening Middle East conflict — a...
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Last month’s U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran and the subsequent spike in energy prices serve as a stark reminder that a stable supply of oil and natural...
Take a moment to digest the following, quite extraordinary sequence of events. Earlier this month, U.S. officials leaked to the Washington Post that...
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Since returning to office last year, U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered military strikes from the Caribbean and eastern Pacific to Africa and the...
In this era of renewed great power competition, the U.S.-Japan alliance remains the indispensable geopolitical linchpin of the Indo-Pacific. Yet the...
Even six months ago, artificial intelligence-generated videos still betrayed themselves, with extra fingers, jerky limbs and uncanny facial...
South Korea is getting a rude awakening about what happens when U.S. priorities shift: Even long-standing alliances can start to look like...
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As the global fertility crisis deepens, the world keeps looking for a convenient explanation. Housing prices, perhaps. Feckless millennials, the Peter...
The world has entered a period of wrecking-ball politics. Leaders have risen to prominence by promising sweeping demolition rather than careful...
For an industry that’s only just getting started, there’s a lot of hype around humanoid robots. You can thank Elon Musk and his bold...
Ever since Fidel Castro’s forces overthrew Fulgencio Batista’s regime in 1959, Cuba has served as a revolutionary paradigm for Latin American...
Uh oh. Survey data from Politico, the media giant, shows that “the 21st century is more likely to belong to Beijing than to Washington,” at least...
For years, Japan’s fiscal debate has centered around short-term ideas — tax cuts or cash transfers, stimulus or austerity. Recent discussions have...
Energy shocks are once again rippling across global markets and Asia sits on the front line. The escalating conflict in the Middle East has already...
According to a recent article in The New York Times, you no longer need to learn Japanese to connect with locals in Tokyo. Invest 2,000 hours to...
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There are times when a major global development demands a special response from many academic disciplines, industries and departments of government....
In the space of just 23 days three decades ago, two initially unassuming releases changed videogames forever. On Feb. 27, 1996, Pokemon Red and Green...
It has been raining trade deals. The U.K.’s Keir Starmer has agreed to closer trade ties with China’s Xi Jinping. The European Union and India...
On a crisp morning on Parliament Hill in Canada’s capital, I watched a group of schoolchildren pose for photographs in front of the Peace Tower. The...
A weekend appearance by Taiwanese Premier Cho Jung-tai at Tokyo Dome, where he cheered on his island’s team at the World Baseball Classic, has...
When Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives in Washington this month to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, she will face the most complex...
During a Jan. 14 news program by NHK, Shinnosuke Kawashima, the Japanese public broadcaster’s Tehran bureau chief, described the atmosphere in the...
For decades, the idea of redirecting a small share of Siberia’s vast freshwater resources toward Central Asia has been considered a relic of...
When the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump demanded Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” I was reminded of Japan before the end of the...
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un will draw a dangerous conclusion from the U.S. and Israel’s strikes on Iran: Nuclear weapons are the ultimate...
A Japanese maker of high-tech toilets has been causing a splash in the world of artificial intelligence. Activist investor Palliser Capital recently...
This year’s Munich Security Conference brought plenty of talk about geopolitics, spheres of influence, the future of NATO and defense budgets. But...
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Some people who live to 100 and beyond smoke, drink hard liquor and down a beer every evening. Others indulge in daily ice cream or even drink three...
In international relations, manifestly illegal government action can sometimes be morally defensible. While historical examples of legitimacy trumping...
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Wednesday marks 15 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. People the world over remember where they were and what...
As the conflict with Iran reshapes global security assumptions and energy markets, the debate in the United States has focused largely on why U.S....
When issuing their warnings about Western “civilizational erasure,” U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance often point to the...
Anthropic PBC made an announcement late last month that flew under the radar. Having sparked selloffs in the equity market with a relentless stream of...
The first fruits of a promised $550 billion investment agreement between the U.S. and Japan are already tainted with pollution. A unit of SoftBank...
Long before Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi drew Beijing’s ire by stating the obvious — that a Chinese military assault on Taiwan could be seen as...
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