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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 19, 2019
Has the Catholic Church committed the worst crime in U.S. history?
It's a fair question given the extent of horrifying alleged instances of sexual abuse of children and coverups.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 1, 2017
Will France elect a Gallic Obama?
Emmanual Macron is a virtuoso of vagueness who calls to mind a certain freshman senator in 2008.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 31, 2017
Why the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts should be abolished
It's a government frill that needs to be sheared.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 11, 2017
A wry squint into the grim future of the U.S.
Novelist Lionel Shriver imagines America slouching into dystopia merely by continuing current practices.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 14, 2017
Who'll protect Americans from their protectors?
The Trump administration wants to make America greater by making its companies less competitive.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 30, 2017
U.S. suffers an excess of intellectual emptiness
Both U.S. President Donald Trump and higher education suffer from a 'storm of outraged ego.'
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 29, 2017
Understanding the real cost of protectionism
Does Donald Trump know that one American company might be 'destroying' more American jobs than China is?
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 24, 2017
Is Baseball Hall of Fame a museum or a shrine?
If Cooperstown wants admission to mean enshrinement, it must embrace and articulate the hall's ethic — that real success must be honorably achieved.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 18, 2017
Trump is the water beetle of American politics
Trump's feral cunning in manipulating the masses is instinctive, and his presidential term will be as novel as his campaign was.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 9, 2017
Obama's unforced errors on foreign policy
When U.S. President Barack Obama moves two miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to 2446 Belmont Road in Washington's Kalorama neighborhood, he will live half a mile from 2340 S Street, where Woodrow Wilson spent his three post-presidential years. Wilson's embittering foreign policy failure was the Senate's...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 4, 2017
Bidding good riddance to an unpleasant year
The year 2016 resembles a china shop after a visit from an especially maladroit bull.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 2, 2017
Protectionism will make America 1953 again
A revival of protectionism will hurt America more than it will help it.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 17, 2016
Starbucks and the pursuit of snobbery
It is not love that makes the world go 'round, it is a compound of envy and pretentiousness.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 5, 2016
France and the 'right' to be spared from guilt
A French court is censoring a video that says Down syndrome children can be happy.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 28, 2016
Hopefully the last of the charismatic totalitarians
With the end of Fidel Castro's life, we can hope to have seen the last of charismatic totalitarians worshiped by political pilgrims from open societies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 20, 2016
Did U.S. academia help elect Donald Trump?
U.S. institutions of supposedly higher education are awash with hysteria, authoritarianism, obscurantism, philistinism and charlatanry.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 10, 2016
A disruptive yet ruinous triumph for the GOP
Republicans are riding high now but demography will dictate a grim destiny for the party unless it acts to counter adverse trends.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 6, 2016
What you should watch for on election day
There will be plenty of fascinating aspects as the electoral numbers start to roll in.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2016
A fitting final chapter to the sleaze sweepstakes
Hillary Clinton's latest scandal shows there is no such thing as rock bottom in these presidential campaigns.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 11, 2016
Donald Trump is the GOP's chemotherapy
Trump is a marvelously efficient acid bath, stripping away his supporters' surfaces, exposing their skeletal essences.
Is Japan ready for 60 million tourists?
Visitors to Kyoto walk along a street near Kiyomizu Temple in April. A popular tourist spot, Kyoto has seen what locals feel to be an overwhelming amount of tourists in 2024.
Honda-Nissan megamerger in the works
Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida (left), Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe (second from left) and Takao Kato, CEO of Mitsubishi Motors, hold a news conference on merger talks on Monday in Tokyo.
Picturesque Japan hot spring town limits day trippers
Ginzan Onsen hot springs in Obanazawa, Yamagata Prefecture
Bankruptcies and suicides rise as Japanese struggle with mounting debt
Lawyers estimate that personal bankruptcies in Japan are on track to reach the highest since 2012 this year.
North Korean hacker group behind DMM Bitcoin’s cryptocurrency leak
A North Korean hacker group is believed to have planted a virus on the computer of an employee at Ginco — a company that was entrusted with the deposit and withdrawal of DMM Bitcoin’s virtual currency — through a fake job recruitment message sent via LinkedIn.
High levels of PFAS found in water from 44 private suppliers across Japan
The Self-Defense Forces facilities are believed to have become sources of PFAS contamination because they used firefighting foam containing the toxic chemicals in the past.
For baseball fans, 2024 brought The Summer of Shohei Ohtani
Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani reacts to a standing ovation from fans after hitting his 50th home run of the season, against the Marlins in Miami on Sept. 19.
Trump's Pentagon policy pick pushed for Japan to spend 3% of GDP on defense
Elbridge Colby (center) speaks at the Threat and the Strategy panel during the Air Force Association Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, in September 2019.
A brief history of ‘osechi ryōri,' Japan's edible tradition for the new year
Japan's traditional New Year cuisine has a long history, though modern developments have led to slight changes in the way things work.
Japan accuses Google of violating antimonopoly law
The Japanese antitrust watchdog said that Google forced smartphone makers to preinstall its search app on their devices, sources say.

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Visitors to Kyoto walk along a street near Kiyomizu Temple in April. A popular tourist spot, Kyoto has seen what locals feel to be an overwhelming amount of tourists in 2024.
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