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China’s latest effort to prop up its battered housing market and spur the economy is getting a poor reception. The measures are underwhelming and...
South Korea’s remarkable economic boom can run for a while yet, if the central bank has any say in the matter. Officials do have their work cut out...
VILNIUS – On Sept. 23, just a week after NATO aircraft shot down a drone that had entered Lithuanian airspace from Belarus, a Russian military...
BERLIN – Brazilians awoke on Monday to a changed political map. Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is now...
Having lived in the United States and Japan for many years and now in Hungary, I have felt the societal rules most sharply in Japan, where origin,...
Like many readers, this writer was shocked by the news this past weekend of the alleged murder of a Japanese woman in Okinawa by a U.S. Marine. While...
LONDON – Warnings of an AI apocalypse have reached fever pitch in the last few months, especially after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon shocked the...
Remember the Thucydides Trap? It was the popular historical analogy that foretold how a rising power, then Athens, now China, threatened the status...
The U.S. president wasn’t mincing words when it came to ructions in trade policy with Japan. “From the beginning of our administration we’ve had...
NEW YORK – The monetary integration of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has become an exercise in perpetual postponement: More...
Until recently, it was difficult to imagine Japanese startups entering the defense sector. But a changing security environment and proactive outreach...
Covering the recent round of AI apocalypse warnings, I’ve tried to reject this cult-like deference toward all-powerful computer systems and the...
While most Americans may think the Iraq War is long over, it wasn’t until last week that the last U.S. troops departed, ending a long and painful...
Japan wants pharmaceuticals and advanced medicine to drive its next phase of economic growth. But achieving that goal will require more than increased...
Artificial intelligence is on its way to becoming the greatest grievance-producing machine the world has seen. Economic revolutions have always been...
LONDON/LOS ANGELES – When President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Washington recently, AI governance was expected to be at...
Washington and Beijing had barely finished their carefully staged diplomatic embrace when the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned an Iran procurement...
Emerging Asia is the future of the liquefied natural gas market — one that never seems to show up in present-day reality. Consider the history. For...
With the launch of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s second reshuffled Cabinet, her administration should make protecting Japan’s undersea cables a...
The world’s attempts to reduce its reliance on China’s juggernaut manufacturing sector depend to an outsized extent on just one country: Vietnam....
I don’t know who will win the U.S.-Iran war. But if you ask me who’s prevailing in the battle over the Strait of Hormuz, it’s clear U.S....
Yayoi Kusama’s death in Tokyo on Aug. 14, at the age of 97, closes one of the longest and most consequential careers in contemporary art. It should...
Nepali Prime Minister Balendra Shah told the United Nations General Assembly last week that he wished he could speak simply about “development,...
Imagine a tax that people just love to pay. Japan’s furusato nozei, or hometown tax, is just that. Indeed, it could be the world’s most popular...
This week, the world left behind 69 years of space exploration and commerce and entered the age of Starship, an era that will be defined by...
The most common reaction — among U.S. observers — to the recent summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s leader Xi Jinping is a...
The AI and cryptocurrency sectors are bankrolling hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising to shape public opinion and elect allies to Congress...
As a language educator, parents raising children in a multilingual setting frequently ask me: “How can I raise my child to be multilingual?” Yet...
On Oct. 1, the world marks the International Day of Older Persons, highlighting both the opportunities and challenges of longer lives. Few countries...
FRANKFURT – In her 1967 essay “Truth and Politics,” the political philosopher Hannah Arendt observed that “Freedom of opinion is a farce...
“Protecting our nation from those who would do us harm is the first and most important responsibility of government.” That’s from the website of...
STRASBOURG – In 2027, high-stakes national elections will be held in nine countries — France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Greece, Finland, Estonia,...
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has temporarily deprived Democrats of a potent midterm rallying cry and averted a...
On July 2, Lobga Rangzen, a Tibetan man who had taken the word meaning “independence and freedom” as his name, set himself on fire outside the...
How risible and despicable: In addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Donald Trump once again bragged that “while others have spoken of...
BRUSSELS – In her latest State of the Union address, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen reached back almost 80 years for...
For decades, youth have been told they are the future — the changemakers, co-creators, and leaders of tomorrow. But are we truly listening to what...
BEIRUT/LOUISVILLE, Kentucky – When governments impose economic sanctions, like the “economic D-Day” U.S. President Donald Trump is now imposing...
In what must be the world’s least surprising election result, parties loyal to President Vladimir Putin have made a clean sweep in elections to...
The past week was crucial for Japan’s government and business communities. On Sept. 22, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi held talks with U.S....
As Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived in Washington this week for a state visit, U.S. President Donald Trump gave him the royal treatment, greeting him...
Japan’s gender problem is not getting women into the workforce. It is what happens when they step out — to have a child, care for a family or...
“Ukraine today is Asia tomorrow.” Asian strategists and policymakers have been guided by that homily for over four years. A chat this week with an...
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton once said that when a crisis breaks out, the first thing everyone in Washington asks is, “Where is the nearest...
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon recently quit and posted on social media that it was because “the people building AI earnestly believe that it...
NEW YORK – From the moment it was announced, the ceasefire between the United States, Israel and Iran has been marked by a different form of...
The technologies that increasingly determine national security are being developed not only by governments but by private companies and universities....
It was always going to be a stretch for Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda to sound very hawkish. Given that officials have tightened cautiously the past...
NEW DELHI – India’s female labor force participation rate (LFPR) stands at 35%, which is well below that of peers like Bangladesh (42%) and the...
Milton Friedman was baffled by Hong Kong. During his second visit in 1963, there was pulsating activity all around him — but no official data. Why...
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