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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 7, 2021
Top White House officials led by national security adviser consider resigning
White House deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger has resigned, joining a number of officials who are leaving the administration of President Donald Trump following the storming of Capitol Hill by his supporters.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 7, 2021
Biden’s presidency is certified after day of debate and violence
Trump says after the certification that there will be an orderly transition when Biden takes office as president.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 7, 2021
China compares storming of U.S. Capitol to Hong Kong protests
China drew a comparison on Thursday between the storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump and last year's often-violent pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, but noted that no one had died when demonstrators took over the legislature of the China-ruled city.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 7, 2021
Japan joins world in voicing concern over U.S. Capitol in chaos
In language usually reserved for more restive parts of the world, Japan's top government spokesman said Tokyo is 'hoping for a peaceful transfer of power' in the U.S.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 7, 2021
Trump supporter rage simmered on social media before D.C. violence
In some of the more obscure corners of the internet, the calls for violence and revolution have been consistent in the months since Trump lost re-election.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 6, 2021
For a post-nationalist Biden
Economic globalization is no longer compatible with the political balkanization that hypernationalism underpins.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 5, 2021
U.S. lawmakers urged to use tunnels over risk from election protests
U.S. President Donald Trump has urged public protests to help pressure lawmakers to reject the Electoral College vote sealing Joe Biden's victory.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 5, 2021
Ivanka the Inevitable?
Ivanka may be considering a Senate run, especially if her father plans to run for re-election in 2024.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jan 4, 2021
Republicans begin new Congress feuding over bid to overturn election
The rift has thrust Republicans — who typically try to minimize their differences in public — into an intramural battle more pronounced than any other of the Trump era.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jan 4, 2021
Biden’s strategy for a predecessor who won’t go away: Ignore him
Biden's historic challenges include a raging pandemic, persistently high unemployment, simmering tensions with China and Russia — and a predecessor who won't go away.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 4, 2021
Trump, in taped call, pressured Georgia official to ‘find’ votes to overturn election
The president vaguely warned of a “criminal offense” as he pressured Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in the call, according to an audio recording.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 3, 2021
Pence welcomes bid to overturn Biden’s election as Republican senators join
Neither Pence nor any of the senators has made a specific allegation of fraud, instead offering vague suggestions that some wrongdoing might have occurred.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 2, 2021
I beg your 'pardon,' Mr. Trump
What concerns me most about Trump's pardons are those for four former Blackwater employees convicted of shooting indiscriminately into a crowd of ordinary citizens in Baghdad in 2007.
Japan Times
WORLD / 2020 in Review
Dec 30, 2020
Images of 2020 | Turbulence: Power shifts and revolution
A brief look back at images that reflected a world in tumult
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Beyond COVID-19
Dec 29, 2020
America’s post-Trump reckoning
As the Biden administration re-engages with U.S. partners and allies, it will have to provide assurances that arrangements made in the next four years will survive into the future.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Beyond COVID-19
Dec 29, 2020
Overcoming Trumpism
The underestimation of Trump voters, and complacent belief in a Biden landslide, revealed the widening gulf between urban, educated America and rural, working-class America.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / EXPLAINER
Dec 24, 2020
Generational change and policy differences test LDP-Komeito political bonds
The Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito recently marked 21 years of alliance, having ruled Japan as a coalition for 18 of those years. But are they growing apart?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 20, 2020
Did Trump’s impeachment matter in the end?
It's easy to conclude that, without the pandemic, Trump would have won. And if that's correct, it would seem that the impeachment would not have made any difference.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 19, 2020
Trump’s future: Tons of cash and plenty of options for spending it
Donald J. Trump will exit the White House as a private citizen next month perched atop a pile of campaign cash unheard-of for an outgoing president, and with few legal limits on how he can spend it.

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