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Andreas Kluth
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 30, 2022
Russia’s mass abductions are genocide
Defeating Putin's troops isn't enough. Kyiv must also get back the hundreds of thousands of women and children the Russians have taken out of Ukraine.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 27, 2022
Believe it or not, Putin's foes are now 'Nazi satanists'
Russians have been told Ukrainians are pawns of the West. Or they don't exist at all. Or they're Nazis. And satanists. And many believe these absurdities.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 21, 2022
If Putin orders a nuke, will his generals obey?
In Russia's nuclear and the conventional chains of command, insubordination might just be a tactical factor.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 9, 2022
The biggest threat to democracy and peace is thuggishness
The operating system of any functioning society is civility, and thuggishness is the virus that makes it crash.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2022
Can sex, gender and language live happily ever after?
Politicizing language adds to polarization and compromises elegance. There's a better approach, if we're capable of it.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 5, 2022
Will the Supreme Court come to rescue of U.S. expats?
The U.S. is unique in tormenting its citizens abroad with tax obligations. But the U.S. Supreme Court could show mercy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 24, 2022
Putin won’t shrink from triggering Chernobyl 2.0
Never before has a nuclear power plant been on the front line of a major war, and indeed a main object of the warring parties' strategies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 11, 2022
Germany looks like it is ready to begin a fourth nuclear exit
A wrongheaded phase-out of nuclear power plus a wrongheaded reliance on Putin's natural gas means Germany needs another U-turn.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2022
Europe is faking solidarity, and Putin knows it
As shown by a compromise on saving natural gas, the EU can't defend itself against its enemies yet.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 25, 2022
Sweating amid extreme heat while worrying about future shivering
Europe is baking under record heat due to climate change and can expect a frigid winter due to Putin.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 1, 2022
With 100 million refugees, the migrant crisis has barely begun
War and famine will make millions more take flight. And then comes climate change. How will the world cope?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 30, 2022
The best outcome for Ukraine in this conflict
For the aggressor, Russia, it appears, all possible outcomes are shades of terrible — a sign of just how colossally Moscow miscalculated. For the defenders, most scenarios are also dire.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 27, 2022
What’s the best way to deal with that bully? Join NATO.
Membership would make Sweden and Finland safer and the alliance stronger. But there's a time window of vulnerability.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2022
Russia has unleashed a new age of nuclear proliferation
Even if Vladimir Putin is bluffing on using nuclear weapons, his threat is more frightening than anything since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 11, 2022
‘Sapiens’? Humans aren’t wise, just too smart for our own good.
Perhaps that's what defines our species — neither wisdom nor folly, but the ability, as F. Scott Fitzgerald put it, to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still function.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 1, 2021
What’s worst about omicron so far is the uncertainty
How should the world respond to omicron? We just have to wait as there is information that we don't yet have. And for many, the waiting itself is the problem.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 5, 2021
Climate change will kill national sovereignty as we know it
In a world where all countries collectively face the planetary emergency of global warming, sovereignty is simply no longer a tenable concept.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2021
How Russia and Belarus are weaponizing migration
Belarus has been flying refugees from various points in the Middle East — Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria — then herding them toward neighboring countries that are members of the European Union.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 14, 2021
Nord Stream 2 will overshadow U.S.-German relations for years
Called Nord Stream 2 and more than 90% finished, it doubles the amount of gas Russia can export directly under the Baltic Sea to northwestern Europe.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 1, 2021
Science shows why simplifying is hard and complicating is easy
Spotting solutions that are simple and elegant, in other words, requires mental effort or what the Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman calls slow as opposed to fast thinking.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.

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