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The most telling moment in the Biden Administration’s decision to block Nippon Steel’s attempted takeover of U.S. Steel was unintentional. In the...
On Jan. 1, 2024, typically the quietest day of the year in Japan, a powerful earthquake struck off Ishikawa, triggering a tsunami and ultimately...
It’s the language that gave us the world’s first novel, birthed commonplace words from tycoon to emoji and produced three winners of the Nobel...
Rice paddies that lay fallow for decades in some of Japan’s most far-flung regions are now its hottest properties. As prices surge, these areas are...
It finally might be happening: A quarter century after Nissan’s bailout by Renault, six years after the shock arrest of savior-turned-fugitive...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, impeached at the second time of asking, was always more popular abroad than at home. Just over a year ago, he...
It’s 7 a.m., the is sun poking through the curtains and blearily I am awakened — not by birdsong, but by the barking of a Chain Chomp, a ball-and-...
In Elden Ring, the biggest gaming hit from Japanese publisher and Sony Group acquisition target Kadokawa, players die over and over again — with...
As Japan prepared to face the U.S. in last year’s World Baseball Classic final, Shohei Ohtani famously warned his teammates to stop revering their...
Netflix’s "Tokyo Swindlers" is a real-life story about high-stakes falsehoods that should be on your to-watch list. But its success also reveals...
Well, that didn’t last long. We knew it would be hard to pin down the policies of newly elected Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. In his...