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DEVELOPMENT

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 14, 2022
Fixing Afghanistan, an American imperative
To prevent Afghanistan from becoming a failed state, the U.S. must end its economic isolation of the country and jumpstart international efforts to resuscitate its collapsing economy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 8, 2021
Time to overhaul the global financial system
Banking regulations should be revised and a new and improved credit-rating system implemented to facilitate more lending to developing countries.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 7, 2021
China throws down the gauntlet on development aid
The West can't match China project for project. The fact that their resources are limited demands that Western governments be smarter and more efficient with development aid.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 30, 2021
Omicron is the price we pay for vaccine inequality
Amsterdam's main airport went into lockdown recently after 61 passengers on two flights from southern Africa tested positive for the new virus. Japan, Hong Kong and Israel have also reported cases.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 25, 2021
As Shinsei defense collapses, another poison pill works in Japan
Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho Ltd., a small maker of newspaper printing presses, said Thursday that Asia Development Capital Co. had decided not to pursue control of the firm.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 8, 2021
Hey, Elon: We made a $6 billion plan to end world hunger
In the coming decades, what we eat and how we grow it will change radically, and we need everyone onboard — the U.N. and Elon Musk alike — to fund the shift to sustainability.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2021
Building a better world in the wake of the Afghanistan debacle
Instead of exporting war, countries such as the U.S. could export technology together with human capital, such as teachers and doctors, to help create a better world.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 3, 2021
A U.N. system with Taiwan in it would be more resilient
Taiwan believes its effective response to the global pandemic at home and abroad shows there is no compelling reason for it not to play a constructive role in the U.N. system.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2021
The post-pandemic whiplash awaiting the world’s poor
At the global level, the International Monetary Fund has warned of a “great divergence,” whereby rich countries recover strongly while others flounder.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 24, 2021
Japan, Myanmar and the illusion of a value-oriented foreign policy
Interestingly, Japan does not even have a legislative foundation to apply sanctions based on human rights violations.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 13, 2021
Wealthy nations’ vaccine spree obscures global pandemic misery
As India grapples with a deadly surge among its population of 1.4 billion, worries are growing for many other spots all over the planet.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 9, 2021
Climate finance hopes for poor nations shift to G7 summit as Merkel disappoints
Germany and Britain are piling pressure on other G7 nations to boost the funding they provide for climate action in developing countries this decade, even though Germany did not offer more finance at an international gathering last week.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 9, 2021
Colonization by other means: China’s debt-trap diplomacy
In stark contrast to China's loans, interest rates for Japan's infrastructure loans to developing countries, for example, mostly run below half a percent.
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.
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.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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