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On May 2, demonstrators opposed to amending Japan’s “peace” Constitution gathered outside the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo....
In the U.S., the backlash to artificial intelligence seems to be scaling almost as fast as the technology itself. Japan offers a different case study....
After years of browbeating Tokyo to up its defense posture and criticizing its anemic domestic defense industry, U.S. bottlenecks are now impeding...
The rivalry for the money of choice in the 21st century is heating up. Now that the regulatory stalemate in the U.S. over whether exchanges should...
As Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrives in Ottawa this week, Canada is attempting what Prime Minister Mark Carney has described as a “reset”...
On May 7, in a historic verdict, Peter Wai and Bill Yuen were found guilty of assisting a foreign intelligence service under the U.K. National...
Japan’s konbini are beloved — a lifeline for the country’s overworked parents and hungry salarymen as well as a must-see experience for...
A Dyson Sphere is a theoretical structure built around a star to tap all of its energy. It’s pure science fiction. But our Big Tech overlords seem...
So much has the world’s attention focused on Iran lately that it’s been easy to lose track of what’s going on in the much larger war in Ukraine....
To foreign audiences, Prime Minister Takaichi is one of the most recognizable Japanese leaders in recent memory. From hugging U.S. President Donald...
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping has revived a familiar debate: Would the United States...
Partisan gerrymandering is dominating the news, and as a scholar of constitutional law and a biographer of James Madison, who founded one of...
The question raised by artificial intelligence in warfare is not only whether machines can fight faster than humans. It is whether political leaders...
At Nintendo headquarters in Kyoto, there should be celebrations. Switch 2 has sold 20 million units since its release last June, becoming the...
Japan continues to draw an unspoken but influential boundary — one that sorts and evaluates people according to whether they can speak Japanese...
When bond yields in Japan rose this week, the doom-mongers were not far behind. Calls of an imminent crisis have been around for decades. Recently,...
A week after the high-profile May 14-15 summit in Beijing, the verdict in Tokyo is split: Did U.S. President Donald Trump hold his ground or did...
It was both painful and humiliating to watch media coverage of U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Beijing, because it amply demonstrated...
U.S. President Donald Trump insists “nothing’s changed” in Washington’s policy toward Taiwan. But as Jesse Johnson reported in this newspaper,...
When U.S. President Donald Trump declared aboard Air Force One last week that Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed the Strait of Hormuz “must reopen,”...
After the first day of meetings between U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s supreme leader, Xi Jinping, a supporter of the U.S. president was...
A rapidly unfolding Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a reminder of the value of maintaining robust global disease surveillance and...
The main outcome of U.S. President Donald Trump’s summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing last week was stalemate, as both men declined to...
Soon after departing Beijing for the U.S. last Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump called Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to brief her on his talks with...
I am not here to bury Tim Cook, but to praise him. Last month’s announcement that the Apple CEO is handing the job to hardware chief John Ternus in...
The global economy is entering a more fragmented and uncertain era. Long-standing frameworks built on international cooperation, multilateralism and...
Boeing’s agreement for 200 jets marks the end of a nine-year drought in China. But the order was considerably smaller than expected — and a...
GENEVA – In most democracies, a leader outsourcing high-stakes diplomacy to family members and business associates would provoke outrage. But U.S....
As China-U.S. tensions persist, will the Association of Southeast Asian Nations remain a stage for competition between the two major powers? Or will...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent trip to Beijing offers a timely moment to assess the upheaval in U.S. trade relations since the start of his...
Have a look at a list of the worst-performing currencies since the start of the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran and a striking but unsurprising pattern...
With the world’s attention focused on wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, a major geopolitical development in Europe has gone largely unnoticed:...
Since launching his full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin has not only failed to achieve the...
The recent Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, hosted by the Philippines, unfolded against an uneasy global backdrop. Beneath the bright...
Conditions in the labor market affect the economy in two main ways. Whether the labor market is running hot or cold affects the Federal Reserve’s...
On Feb. 24, 2022, after Kyiv awoke to a series of missile explosions, Vladimir Putin appeared on millions of television screens seated between two...
Though I am a lifelong member of the cult of "Godzilla," I am a know-nothing neophyte next to some of my fellow enthusiasts. I’m...
HONG KONG – Many people seem convinced that the productivity gains from AI will solve the problem of unsustainable budget deficits in advanced...
India created the post of Chief of Defense Staff in 2019 to achieve what its military had long lacked: genuine jointness among the Army, Navy and Air...
The “Indian curry” lunch is a Japanese salaryman’s treat. Two or three mildly spiced dishes, paired with unlimited quantities of slightly sweet...
Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S.-Philippines alliance has been the sick man of the U.S. regional security architecture. (The alliance with...
When U.S. President Donald Trump served Chinese leader Xi Jinping chocolate cake at Mar-a-Lago in 2017 while casually informing his guest that the...
It took him 12 years, but Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has finally brought the world’s most-populous nation to the precipice of an...
The ancient Athenians didn’t really have a word for sin. They had one for error, hamartia and they of course coined hubris — an offense of pride...
CHICAGO – As Hungarians celebrate their defeat of authoritarian populism and Americans mark 250 years of freedom, Russians may also look forward to...
ADDIS ABABA – The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has caused severe price spikes, which are hitting the world’s most vulnerable people the...
The dominant message from Britain’s recent local government elections is that the extreme right Reform U.K. party has swept the country, gaining...
Donald Trump’s visit this week to China, the first by a U.S. president since Trump himself visited eight and a half years 8½ earlier, is unlikely...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney drew global attention at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he argued that middle...
Indian business rarely does exactly what the government wants it to. For the past decade or so, for example, it has obdurately refused to invest as...
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