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As America’s congressional midterm campaigns gather momentum, politicians from both parties will once again court Indian-American voters, donors and...
Just 18 months into his second term and with the U.S. midterm elections approaching, U.S. President Donald Trump has generated a remarkable number of...
Fresh off the recent All-Star break, Major League Baseball took aim at artificial intelligence. As the season resumed, clubs were barred from using AI...
SEOUL – Global imbalances are again dominating international economic debates and with good reason. Large and persistent imbalances often end badly,...
When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi visited Australia in May, she brought her host a gift chosen with diplomatic care: Crown Melons from...
It’s rare these days to hear a dictator openly admit he won’t bother holding elections. Even the world’s most brutal authoritarian regimes...
CHICAGO – As the funeral of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in the opening wave of U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in February, drew to a...
MELBOURNE – The inaugural Enhanced Games, held in Las Vegas in May, allowed participating athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs. The Games’...
At a wedding, rigidity usually means keeping everyone vertical as the drinks start to flow. In Japan, it also describes a growing problem with the...
Ten years after Japan’s deadliest mass stabbing, one of the survivors of the brutal attack at the Tsukui Yamayuri-en residential facility has become...
Authoritarian regimes often project strength. But history suggests the opposite: Systems built on fear and political loyalty ultimately undermine the...
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut – For generations, the United States distinguished itself not simply by its wealth or military power, but by offering...
One of the world’s current hottest commodities is in the midst of a huge disruption. It may sound like I’m talking about oil and the blockade of...
Of all the culture-war flash points that could become political wedge issues, you might think “don’t waste energy” would be toward the bottom of...
Ten months ago, Nepal’s Generation Z helped bring down a prime minister, then swept a new government into office on promises of accountability and...
Corruption isn’t a new problem in Indonesia, but a spate of recent scandals is threatening an already fragile investment climate at a time when the...
This month marked 18 months since the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump. From contentious tariff negotiations and remarks hinting at U.S....
At the risk of turning myself into a pariah, I don’t think money in politics is a problem. Voters on the right and left don’t seem to agree on...
CANNES, France – The Gulf ceasefire lasted barely three weeks. After Iranian attacks on three commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the United...
On July 17, Japan’s parliament enacted the first major substantive revision to the Imperial House Law in nearly eight decades. To address a...
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia – Francis Fukuyama’s 1990s end-of-history thesis was the last big narrative that united the liberal-democratic West. Western...
In 2011, Japan’s Ministry of Finance unveiled Kokusai-sensei, a mascot whose smiling face is made from the first kanji character in the Japanese...
“The United States is respected as never before.” U.S. President Donald Trump has confidently repeated that assertion since his first term in...
Pity the poor British teen as they try to work out what they’re legally allowed (and not allowed) to do as they enter adulthood. They can get...
As the White House keeps roiling the topmost organization in the American espionage hierarchy, questions have resurfaced that date back to the...
Japan has no shortage of cultural influence. It has a shortage of ownership. That distinction is becoming harder to ignore. The Cool Japan Fund, the...
Japan is stepping up its role in global offshore wind, committing billions to projects abroad even as its domestic sector struggles to keep pace. In...
SpaceX’s willingness to blow stuff up and learn from the failures has propelled it from a cash-strapped startup to one of the world’s most...
With the yen recently falling to 40-year lows, a key question is what will force the Bank of Japan to become more aggressive. It is unlikely to be the...
When South Korea failed to make the knockout stages in the soccer World Cup, the country’s president, Lee Jae Myung, denounced the national team...
Spinning a good narrative is critical to selling artificial intelligence these days. But the leaders of today’s biggest labs are giving us whiplash...
At the recent Shangri-La Dialogue, Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi delivered a blunt rebuttal to Meng Xiangqing, a professor at China’s PLA...
MOSCOW – Karl Marx once wrote that theory becomes a material force the moment it grips the masses. Soviet leaders took that line and ran with it —...
Has Japan finally taken the emergency hammer and broken the “strengthen-yen-here” glass? Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama pulled a genuine...
Following Argentina’s controversial come-from-behind World Cup victory against Egypt, a match the losing team said was “fixed,” one wit on...
It was one of the hottest would-be commodities of the COVID-19 era. Like the virus, it’s since faded into the background, to the extent that few...
The U.S.-Japan alliance has never been only a military arrangement. During the Cold War, Japan and the United States saw themselves as part of the...
NEW YORK – The self-immolation of exiled Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen outside United Nations headquarters in New York on July 2 was not an...
With the artificial intelligence race moving so rapidly, even a momentary lag can be costly. Alphabet’s Google is learning this the hard way: The...
The Indo-Pacific has become a laboratory for minilateral diplomacy. The “Quad,” AUKUS, the SQUAD, the Five Eyes, the Japan-U.S.-Republic of Korea...
BEIJING – The summit in May between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping signaled that the Sino-American relationship is...
BUDAPEST – Pride in Japan has never needed permission. Each summer, hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ rights supporters and allies gather in Tokyo for...
It’s been more than 35 years since I started working on Asian affairs. When I began that journey, the United States was a reflexively transatlantic...
For the past four and a half years, Japan has watched the war in Ukraine with keen interest — not out of charity alone, but because the conflict...
For nearly a quarter century, a rare bipartisan consensus guided American policy toward India. Washington believed that helping the world’s largest...
In my early years as an economics professor, I was occasionally asked to present my work to a group of international economists, and several times I...
Tehran’s Grand Mosalla Mosque, where the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was held in state earlier this month, is an extraordinary building. In a...
For decades, Japanese grand strategy rested on a quiet, comfortable bargain. The United States kept the world’s sea lanes open — especially the...
In a memorable quip during her campaign for election earlier this year, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi promised that she would smash the button marked...
As a former chief economist at the Bank of Japan, I am often asked whether the weak yen is here to stay or whether Japan may one day see a return of...
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