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Geoengineering’s risks need to be studied more

More than a dozen private companies around the world are looking to profit from extreme measures to combat global warming — filling the sky with...

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F.d. Flam

China’s housing crisis is worse than it seems

China’s economy today bears an unsettling resemblance to Japan’s in the 1990s, when the collapse of a housing bubble led to prolonged stagnation....

yesterday 6

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Yi Fuxian

Sizing up the forthcoming Upper House election

This month, the Japanese public will be going to the ballot boxes to vote for members of Japan’s Upper House. In the past, these elections have...

friday 40

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

Japan’s Do It Yourself Party: Who we are and where we are headed

Ahead of the Upper House elections on July 20, Sanseito, the party I lead, has adopted the slogan “Japanese First” and is fielding candidates in...

friday 10

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Sohei Kamiya

The dilemma facing Japan’s rising (and falling) populist parties

Election season is upon us, as voters will take to the polls on July 20 to elect representatives to Japan’s Upper House. Several opposition parties...

friday 3

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Rintaro Nishimura

A BRICS+ development agenda for the Global South

From July 6, Rio de Janeiro will host the two-day BRICS Summit of presidents and heads of state. With 10 current member states and many others...

03.07.2025 40

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Fernando Amorim Teixeira

A ‘Sputnik’ moment in the global AI race

When Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled the open-source large language model DeepSeek-R1 in January, many referred to it as the "AI Sputnik shock...

03.07.2025 6

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Makoto Shiono

A prophesied disaster (likely) won’t strike Japan this weekend

Life as we know it will probably not come to an end in Japan this weekend. But what if it does? That’s the question consuming a disaster-prone...

02.07.2025 9

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Gearoid Reidy

China’s shipyard dominance leads to geoeconomic risks

China’s unparalleled shipbuilding capacity has the U.S., Japan and its allies — both military and economic — rightly concerned about maritime...

02.07.2025 2

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Kenichi Doi

In the Trump era, how much should countries really be spending on defense?

What percentage of gross domestic product should a country be spending on its defense? That question has continued to be at the center of debates...

02.07.2025 2

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

Data centers and small reactors could change Asia’s nuclear dynamic

Notice how hot your cellphone gets when it multitasks on a steamy day? It doesn’t take much to make me put my keitai down and worry about it...

01.07.2025 7

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Brad Glosserman

Is the shine coming off the U.S.-Japan ‘Golden Age’?

"A friendship like few others” is how U.S. President Donald Trump described the U.S.-Japan relationship in January, declaring his confidence that...

01.07.2025 6

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Gearoid Reidy