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I was in China for a chunk of the holidays. My son was attending a baseball camp in Shanghai — a story in itself — and the rest of the trip was...
A vacuum has emerged in politics around the world. Elections in democratic countries across the globe last year were marked by a decisive rejection...
Donald Trump "loves" tariffs. It’s “the most beautiful word in the dictionary” and “his favorite word.” In his mind, they are the cure-all for...
Three cheers for Australia — really and literally. Last week, the Canberra government completed an impressive trifecta of diplomatic achievements,...
Yutaka Mataebara, the "iron man" of The Japan Times editorial pages, passed away on Oct. 21 at the age of 89. Mataebara was a pillar of the JT:...
The real sign of great power status is a sphere of influence. Nothing says hegemony like a geographic space that extends well beyond a country’s...
Maybe distance isn’t so tyrannical after all. Former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida liked to say that “Ukraine today is Asia tomorrow,” a pointed...
Everyone knows Japan’s demographic woes. Already the oldest, “grayest” nation on the planet, the nation’s population will plummet as fertility...
Few observers were surprised — or troubled — when Germany overtook Japan earlier this year as the world’s third-largest economy. The International...
When Russian and Chinese jets violated Japanese airspace last month, many assumed that the actions were coordinated. A pillar of the “partnership...