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The Japan Times |
’Tis the holiday season, meaning joy and happiness and disagreement and litigation. In other words, it’s time for this year’s dispatches from...
Every week or so, scientists issue another warning that the H5N1 bird flu is inching closer to exploding into a pandemic. Despite having contended...
This is a pivotal moment for cinema, in which technology and art are converging. As senior programmer for the Women’s Empowerment section at the...
China’s gross domestic product growth slowed during the first three quarters of 2024, from 5.3% to 4.7% to 4.6%, raising fears that the country...
Rice paddies that lay fallow for decades in some of Japan’s most far-flung regions are now its hottest properties. As prices surge, these areas...
The contrast couldn’t have been more striking. On Dec. 9, while the West was still shell shocked from the fall of the Bashar Assad regime in Syria...
Being the president of South Korea is such an unforgiving job, it sometimes makes you wonder why anyone would want it. Since the end of martial law...
Donald Trump knows that in politics, sometimes you can win by losing. After making immigration reform a focus of his campaign, Trump, in an...
What do you do in an energy industry that’s facing its first speed bumps after decades of meteoric growth? In the case of oil, the answer in 1960...
Despite Denmark's recent rejection of Japan’s extradition request for anti-whaling activist Paul Watson, who was apprehended in July based on a...
It finally might be happening: A quarter century after Nissan’s bailout by Renault, six years after the shock arrest of savior-turned-fugitive...
ByteDance’s options for TikTok in the U.S. are looking increasingly desolate, as the tech war between Washington and Beijing boils over. The...
India aims to revolutionize the semiconductor industry by becoming its global hub — yet another bold ambition for the emerging power. Gaining a...
A note to Europe’s leaders: When it comes to sending sufficient aid to help Ukraine end Russia’s invasion, if not now, when? In October, I visited...
Three cheers for Australia — really and literally. Last week, the Canberra government completed an impressive trifecta of diplomatic...
South Korea has a very vibrant and proactive civil society. All you need to do is walk around central Seoul on a Saturday or Sunday near city hall,...
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump's bromance could be rekindled in 2025, if both sides play their cards right. This is positive and would help create the...