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Hal Brands
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 29, 2019
The risks of allowing terrorist sanctuaries
Critics who want to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan are ignoring 20 years of experience.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 26, 2019
Trump's true foreign policy: chaos
It took 70 years to build the interagency process that brought structure and discipline to U.S. leadership. It took less than three years for one man to shred it.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2019
To meet China challenge, the U.S. has to fight climate change
U.S. global warming policy undermines the geopolitical advances it's making on Beijing.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 1, 2019
America is losing the battle of the Arctic
The Pentagon's new Arctic strategy isn't enough to counter Russia and China.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 29, 2019
Every U.S. president since Reagan was wrong about China
For decades U.S. politicians and analysts told us economic growth in China would spur liberalism. Denying that fact could lead to more big mistakes.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 23, 2019
Trump has been (partly) good for U.S. foreign policy
By shattering outdated norms, the U.S. president has set up his successor to be a transformational figure.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 12, 2019
U.S. plan to fight China and Russia is too good to be true
'Horizontal escalation' is a new strategy to shift a war to the enemy's weak spots. Unfortunately, it won't work on its own.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 7, 2019
U.S. progressives don't know how to end the 'forever war'
Bringing the troops home is a laudable goal — if you have a plan to do it in a way that doesn't harm national security.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 1, 2019
Trump shows how powerful America is by weakening it
There is an epochal paradox at the center of the Iran crisis.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 21, 2019
America's Indo-Pacific strategy won't scare China
If China really is the new focus of Western security, why is Trump picking fights in the Middle East?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 17, 2019
What if the U.S. could fight only one war at a time?
The post-Cold War idea of winning on two fronts gives way to the realities of great power competition.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 6, 2019
Today's U.S.-China clash began at Tiananmen Square
Ever since the massacre, Beijing has pushed authoritarianism at home and abroad.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 22, 2019
Trump's foreign policy has finally run out of road
Iran, Venezuela and North Korea all show the problem with making threats you can't back up.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 13, 2019
Is the U.S. turning isolationist? It depends on who you ask
A poll shows few Americans know what 'liberal international order' means, but most like leading it.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 15, 2019
Trump gets Trumpier; allies get more scared
The president is undermining U.S. soft power by raising pressure on the border.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 2, 2019
Google needs a lesson in patriotism
Firm shuns business with the Pentagon but is helping China develop AI capabilities.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 27, 2019
Can the U.S. avert an India-Pakistan war?
North Korea and Venezuela are getting the headlines, but the world's most dangerous crisis is taking place in South Asia.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 15, 2019
U.S. spies say China and Russia are getting closer
Beijing and Moscow are teaming up to diminish Washington's global influence, spread tyranny and undermine democracy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 12, 2019
South America is a battlefield in the new cold war
The Venezuela crisis is a test of Russian and Chinese power in America's backyard.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 30, 2019
Can U.S. alliances withstand Trump's venom?
Key players in the Trump administration had protected American interests in Japan, South Korea and Europe. No longer.
Ishiba delays meeting with Trump, citing legal restrictions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba waves upon arrival for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, in Callao, Peru, on Friday.
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.
Rising sex tourism exposes loopholes in Japan's anti-prostitution law
While financial misfortunes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have driven some women to work the streets, others simply want more money to spend — or want to pay off their debts — at host clubs.
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.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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