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Marc Champion
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 2, 2022
Putin thinks his biggest ally in Ukraine is time
For Ukraine, still outgunned and economically devastated, a key risk lies in the durability of the lifeline of fiscal and military support from abroad.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 11, 2022
Russia trains missiles on Ukraine’s quiet zone to target trade
As the invasion settles into a war of attrition, with logistics playing a decisive role, the traditionally pro-Russian region known as Bessarabia is growing in strategic importance.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
May 1, 2022
Putin’s war brings risks to Moldova and its pro-Moscow enclave
Tensions are rising in the territory of Transnistria, with ominous comments from Moscow raising fears that the conflict in Ukraine may extend to its neighbor.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 29, 2022
Ukraine’s forces get boost from arsenal of old-fashioned artillery
Artillery's less articulated but central function explains why the U.S. and other nations are now putting so much emphasis on providing traditional firepower to Ukraine.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 20, 2022
Ukrainian troops risk being encircled in new Russian offensive
Russia has launched what its top envoy hailed as a second phase of the war in Ukraine, and early indications are it could go better for Moscow than the first.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 15, 2022
Russia’s sunken warship dents both its pride and capabilities
A western official described the Ukrainian claim of a missile strike on the Moskva as credible, and its loss as a significant blow.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 14, 2022
Russian troops risk repeating blunders if they try for May 9 win
Ukraine's allies see a two-week window before Russia unleashes an offensive designed to declare some sort of victory by the May 9 anniversary of Nazi Germany's defeat in World War II.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 13, 2022
Russia faces hard-to-verify claims of chemical weapons use in Mariupol
U.S. and European officials have said that any Russian use of banned substances in Ukraine would be met with an immediate reaction.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 12, 2022
Europe moves to arm Ukraine as sanctions fail to sway Putin
The shift partly comes as European nations accept that sanctions have done little to crimp Russia's ability to fund its military operations.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Apr 8, 2022
The race is on to rearm eastern front that may decide Ukraine war
As Russia refocuses its invasion of Ukraine on the east, recognition is growing in Kyiv and allied capitals that the window to prevent a long war of attrition may be narrow.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 30, 2022
Chemical weapons a high risk, low gain Ukraine option for Putin
Despite remote possibility, NATO has activated chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense elements as part of its defense plans.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 24, 2022
Zelenskyy’s virtual world tour proves a new weapon in Russia war
Badly out-gunned by Russia on land, in the air and at sea, the information war is the one arena in which Ukraine is clearly winning.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 23, 2022
Ukraine is changing the world order, just not how Putin hoped
From Berlin to London and Baltic capitals like Tallinn, the metrics of defending Europe have been torn up.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 18, 2022
Russia’s ruined game plan for Ukraine is visible in the south
Mariupol risks acquiring the totemic status of Vukovar or Sarajevo during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, sieges whose destruction and cruelty sparked indignation around much of the world.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 5, 2022
How Ukraine’s rail network threw Russia’s military off track
While Ukraine's forces have done a lot to foil the Kremlin's plan for a quick victory, so too have logistics, and in particular a lack of access to rail transport.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 2, 2022
Ukraine faces more brutal form of war as Russia regroups
After early failures, officials from the U.S. and allied nations expect more indiscriminate tactics as Russian forces seek to suppress resistance.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Feb 27, 2022
Putin races against clock as fast military advance is ‘frustrated’
Russia's plans for Ukraine face rapidly rising costs due to delays caused by tougher-than-expected resistance from forces on the ground, even as its military retains overwhelming advantages.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 26, 2022
Ukraine’s TV comedian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy finds his role as wartime leader
Zelenskyy may be among the least likely wartime leaders the world has known, yet he's winning praise in the role just when his political fortunes had been dwindling.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Feb 3, 2022
A journey across Ukraine shows invasion would come at high price
The potentially ruinous cost of occupying a part of one of Europe's poorest countries explains why many Ukrainians believe Russia won't do it.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 16, 2022
Putin’s troops wouldn’t get cheers in this once pro-Russia city
When people in Mariupol imagine a future under Putin's rule, they no longer see a wealthier, more comfortable one in Russia, 48 kilometers away.
As ‘Buy Canadian’ grows, more U.S. firms say retailers turning away products
Empty shelves with "Buy Canadian Instead" signs are seen in the American Whiskey section of the BC Liquor in Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 10.
Trump unveils 10% global tariff, with Japan levy set at 24%
Trump tosses a MAGA hat to the crowd during an event in which he unveiled new tariffs in the White House on Wednesday.
A Canadian made a weekend trip to Costco a Japanese pastime
Under the watchful eye of Ken Theriault, Costco representative director and Japan country manager, the American membership-model wholesaler has flourished in Japan.
Meiji says sayonara to bottled milk, a staple of Japan's bathhouses
Meiji bottled milk lined up in a fridge at Kosugiyu, a bathhouse in Tokyo. The sticker urges patrons to enjoy the milk one last time before it’s gone.
Japan, South Korea and China vow to strengthen trade ties amid looming U.S. tariffs
Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yoji Muto (left), South Korean Trade Industry and Energy Minister Ahn Duk-geun (center) and Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao during a trilateral meeting in Seoul on Sunday
Haruki Murakami TV adaptation revisits 30 years of watershed moments
Though Haruki Murakami's trademark whiff of offbeat existentialism is threaded throughout NHK's "After the Quake," the final episode — conceived as a sequel to the story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" — is the most stylized, featuring an anthropomorphic talking frog (voiced by Non) and his erstwhile associate Katagiri (Koichi Sato).
A new human trafficking trend emerges from Myanmar scam centers
Victims of scam centers who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar gather at a compound inside KK Park, a fraud center on the country's border with Thailand, after a multinational crackdown in February.
Meiji says sayonara to bottled milk, a staple of Japan's bathhouses
Meiji bottled milk lined up in a fridge at Kosugiyu, a bathhouse in Tokyo. The sticker urges patrons to enjoy the milk one last time before it’s gone.
A Canadian made a weekend trip to Costco a Japanese pastime
Under the watchful eye of Ken Theriault, Costco representative director and Japan country manager, the American membership-model wholesaler has flourished in Japan.
On defense, Japan may avoid Trump's worst impulses — for now
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth chat after reviewing an honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sunday.

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