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For decades, Japanese-language education in Japan was sustained not by the state but by the goodwill of volunteers. A persistent belief that “any...
In the early 2000s Sepp Blatter, the then-head of soccer’s governing body FIFA, spoke of where he saw the sport going. “In Asia you have more than...
NEW YORK – From the Kremlin to the White House to Silicon Valley, the Antichrist — or at least talk of it — is coming. The concept amounts to...
NEW DELHI – India’s citizens are witnessing a remarkable inversion of democracy: a government choosing its voters rather than the other way...
At the outset of his last year as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan had a warning. “History cautions,” he told Congress in 2005,...
On June 29, China’s Ministry of Commerce added 20 Japanese entities to its export control list, the harder of two lists it issued that day. The...
In a decision last Thursday that redefines what it means to be heartless, the Supreme Court held that by stopping asylum seekers from crossing the...
Every July 1, fireworks illuminate the skies across Canada. This year, however, the country marks Canada Day with a revitalized sense of pride. Prime...
LONDON – Russian President Vladimir Putin has had a tough few months. While the Ukraine war never unfolded according to plan, Putin believed, until...
Modern warfare — despite its guided drones and “precision” bombing — inevitably kills civilians. Yet journalists, supposedly protected under...
TORONTO – America has capitulated to Iran. The “memorandum of understanding” signed by the two sides specifies terms that spell victory for the...
If Starbucks Korea believes that a compulsory history lesson would draw a line under a marketing fiasco that has dented both reputation and business,...
During Chinese President Xi Jinping’s early June visit to North Korea, Kim Jong Un confirmed his support for Beijing’s “One China” principle,...
Shortly before Russia re-invaded Ukraine more than four years ago, I went to Mariupol to get a sense of what the response would be and met Ruslan...
Every four years, Japan wins the same World Cup — not on the pitch, but in the stands, where order and civic virtue are performed for a global...
OXFORD, England – It has long been clear that slow-moving governments are not keeping pace with rapid AI progress. But Anthropic’s announcement...
Folarin Balogun, star striker for the United States Men’s National Team, helped to lead his country into the World Cup knockout rounds. He could...
Earlier this month, Beijing designated the Taiwan Strait and several areas around Taiwan to be “coastal waters.” As many Japanese leaders and...
The ASEAN-Russia Commemorative Summit, held June 17-18, 2026, in Kazan, Russia, marked 35 years of dialogue relations and 30 years of formal...
Kevin Warsh’s early days at the helm of the Federal Reserve are a tough reminder that when it comes to currencies, the U.S. central bank isn’t...
In Giuliano da Empoli’s 2022 novel “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” the protagonist Vadim Baranov — a fictionalized version of Russian President...
Beneath the oceans, out of sight and mostly out of mind, lies the infrastructure that keeps messages sending, videos streaming and AI tools answering...
Keir Starmer has informed King Charles III of his intention to depart 10 Downing Street. By September, the U.K. will have its seventh prime minister...
CAIRO – On April 15, a group of developing countries launched the Borrowers’ Platform to create a more powerful collective voice in...
Japan wants to turn its factory floors into the proving ground for the next frontier of artificial intelligence. The question is whether it still has...
The United States appears to be stepping back from a key element of its Indo-Pacific strategy, dropping “Indo” from the Indo-Pacific Command and...
Ten years ago, economists Gordon Hanson, David Autor and David Dorn identified what they called “the China shock.” That referred to the...
“Assimilate or go home,” read the sign at Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s side as he held forth on the Senate floor last month about the proposed...
Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun has little to show from a two-week trip to the United States, the most concrete sign yet that Taiwan’s chief...
Usually, if someone or something is trying too hard to be cool, it isn’t. The same could be said of the Cool Japan Fund, a public-private investment...
Two military conflicts less than a year apart have renewed attention on China’s prospects as an arms exporter. But even with a compelling commercial...
If you had told me that more than 70,000 effervescent football fans would pack Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium on a Monday night to watch, ahem, New...
“You better be careful, JD.” That was the warning last Wednesday from President Donald Trump, sort of in jest and sort of not, to his vice...
GDANSK, Poland – In his novel “The Man Without Qualities,” Robert Musil gives the Habsburg world another name: Kakania. It is not a primitive...
Before heading to the Group of Seven summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi visited her British and Italian counterparts in...
A politician essentially handpicked by Beijing, Chief Executive John Lee, has dealt a lethal blow to the rule of law in Hong Kong. It’s simple and...
The long-awaited Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and the United States was electronically signed on June 14, Donald Trump’s 80th birthday....
Peace deals are never easy and the path to the U.S.-Iran agreement announced on Sunday may yet take unexpected turns. If implemented as envisioned,...
Three months ago Iran launched two intercontinental ballistic missiles toward the U.K.-controlled island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Neither...
Major world events such as the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup operate under a bargain. Countries spend billions of dollars to build stadiums and...
One of the most striking things about contemporary America is the popularity of conspiracy theories. The list of absurd things that “everybody...
Would you pay 99 cents to make Super Mario jump higher? In an infamous 2014 letter to Nintendo, activist fund Oasis Management proposed that the...
China rewrote the rules of global business a few weeks ago. You probably missed it. Two innocuous-sounding regulations from the State Council threaten...
N'DJAMENA, Chad – As everyone knows, the war in the Middle East has caused a sharp spike in oil, gas and food prices, creating severe economic...
As Brazil commemorates 118 years of Japanese immigration on June 18, public attention will once again focus on one of the most visible legacies of the...
In two months, it will be five years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. During these five years, despite the overwhelming evidence...
On Sunday, Washington and Tehran confirmed that both sides had “electronically signed” a preliminary memorandum of understanding aimed at ending...
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts – Shortly after the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, U.S. President Donald Trump praised the country’s new...
My favorite tech trend so far this year has nothing to do with artificial intelligence. It’s the cool girls making their own “cyberdecks,” —...
Do you live in fear of the specter of “Japanese neo-militarism”? Are you girding yourself for another campaign of advance across Asia? Perhaps you...
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