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SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son is known for making audacious multibillion-dollar bets. Some acquisition deals, such as chip designer Arm...
The signing of a defense cooperation agreement between Indonesia and Japan in Jakarta this week was more than another bilateral milestone. It signals...
A suspected outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship sailing the Atlantic Ocean has all the hallmarks of a nightmare scenario: A handful of people have...
The global jet-fuel crunch is hitting Asia’s low-cost airlines much harder than their full-service counterparts. Governments should be preparing...
By observing Beijing’s assertive military posturing in the South China Sea, its track record of economic coercion and its sweeping internal...
The longstanding maxim that “whoever controls the sea controls the world” reflects the central role of maritime power in ensuring the security and...
On May 1, China eliminated all tariffs on imports from African countries, with the exception of one, Eswatini. The tiny South African kingdom is being...
Anyone who’s ever dealt with it has a long list of complaints about the Indian state. They will point out that it rarely invests in long-term...
NEW YORK – Ever since the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the country has served as a cautionary tale about the dangers of political reform in...
The Iran war, which Donald Trump started in February for no good reason and which could flare up again at any moment, broke a streak of easy American...
PARIS – For decades, much of Europe viewed military engagement through the lens of NATO or the European Union, since these structures have long...
The dizzying changes wrought by energy shocks are only ever seen in the rearview mirror. When the 1973 and 1979 oil crises first swept the world,...
CAMBRIDGE – African economies will not be able to meet their development goals unless they can mobilize their own resources. But to do that,...
PARIS – We live in a world of senseless suffering and impending catastrophe, where it would seem the idea of moral progress has become...
There was a time when Tokyo felt light years ahead of the world. The flip phone I used in the 2000s was a marvel to every American I showed it to,...
Paris – May Day came and went last Friday in the City of Lights, prompting me to reflect on its meaning here in France and in my native Japan. On...
Four years ago, Mark Zuckerberg, feeling like the admiral of the good ship Meta Platforms, sent a memo to employees encouraging them to refer to...
LONDON – For decades, global development efforts reflected the assumption that international cooperation, however imperfect, was ultimately guided...
I was chatting with a friend over coffee the other afternoon about nothing in particular, and inevitably the topic turned to AI. After all, I...
Pressure to free imprisoned Hong Kong newspaperman Jimmy Lai continues to mount ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s planned mid-May summit in...
A hundred years ago this week, on April 27, 1926, an Edwardian Englishman gave a speech in Tokyo to an elite group of business and government leaders...
In November, less than a month after taking office, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi established the Japan Growth Strategy Headquarters to...
China’s AI ecosystem has one defining difference from Silicon Valley: it’s embrace of open source. While America’s biggest companies race to...
If the Iran War has taught us nothing else, it’s that weaponizing shipping routes is now the military move du jour. That’s rightly turned...
At first glance, AI companions for lonely seniors can seem dystopian, looking less like innovation than a bleak sign of social failure. Spending a...
It has been almost two decades since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stood in India’s parliament and told the assembled legislators that "it...
For all the talk of a coming multipolar world, the reality for Japan is simpler: The international system is still shaped above all by the United...
OK, that’s rich. A prominent Chinese academic warned that the United States now views technology competition between itself and China “less as a...
Asia’s Gen Z is facing a summer of discontent. Already grappling with bleak job prospects and lackluster growth, it is now being stung by the shock...
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE – Jewish history includes three episodes of flourishing in exile: the Babylonian diaspora’s great academies; the...
Earlier this month, a group of climate-change deniers gathered at the Hotel Washington in the U.S. capital to celebrate their takeover of the...
Since Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae’s Liberal Democratic Party secured 316 seats in Japan’s Lower House, the largest majority seen since the end...
South Korea’s economic performance appears to be decoupling from that of the United States. While economic growth in 2025 was around 1%, less than...
Four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Western observers still do not understand the Kremlin’s strategy. Some think there is...
The ousting this month of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in a landslide electoral defeat has generated a flood of commentary. Much of it has...
As the tragic consequences of U.S. President Donald Trump’s war of choice against Iran continue to accumulate, one hears a cry of desperation: Are...
Let’s say you do a job that involves making predictions about human behavior — you manage money, you sell things, you write opinion columns. Just...
Two months into the war in Iran, energy markets are still in turmoil — and nowhere has felt the havoc more acutely than Asia. Nearly 90% of the oil...
Every once in a while, an advance in treating cancer is so stunning that doctors get chills. Such is the case for Revolution Medicines’ pancreatic...
The Artemis II mission around the moon provided a conflicted nation with a much-needed wave of shared enthusiasm derived from achieving a lofty goal....
As global attention focuses on the succession to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, an instructive contrast has emerged between the United States...
Would you buy OpenAI’s shares even though the transaction might expose you to a liquidity crunch? SoftBank Group Corp.’s founder Masayoshi Son did...
Be scared. Very scared. Readers captivated by cybersecurity developments have likely seen mention of Mythos, the latest version of the Claude...
The United States is six months away from the most consequential midterm elections in its history. Meanwhile, we are living in times when U.S....
For years, climate campaigners have claimed that our food supply is under grave threat from climate change caused by excessive fossil fuel use....
Territorial buffers rarely, if ever, deliver the peace and security their advocates promise. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine was seen...
A recent segment by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation characterizing Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi as “very hawkish” and a leader who wants to...
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Cabinet on Tuesday made a landmark decision to abolish decades-old restrictions limiting military equipment...
For all my reporting life, I’ve dreaded one question: What is the price of oil — the real one? Invariably asked during a crisis, it demands a neat...
Born into unimaginable luxury and showered with honors, the man formerly known as His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, Duke of York, will henceforth be...
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