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SOFT POWER

LIFE / Food & Drink / Longform
Oct 3, 2022
What Japan’s iconic beef can teach us about ‘soft power’
The upcoming u2018Wagyu Olympics' in Kagoshima Prefecture is expected to create much-needed buzz about the industry among consumers at home and abroad.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 5, 2020
Is the world growing softer or just becoming wiser?
It is becoming slowly recognized that violence backfires and that soft methods, rather than harsh and confrontational measures and battle plans, now stand the best chance of stabilizing societies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 10, 2018
New Zealand grapples with China's influence and intimidation
In April 2010, there was a scandal over the Confucius Institute at Osaka Sangyo University in Osaka. During meetings discussing a proposed relocation of the institute between campuses, the director of the University Affairs Board denounced it as a "cultural spy agency" for China and "a 'soft landing'...
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2015
In 'soft power' terms, Japan ranks eighth out of 30 countries in U.K. consultancy report
Japan ranked eighth in the world in "soft power," according to a new annual ranking released by U.K.-based consulting firm Portland.
JAPAN
Mar 16, 2015
To counter China and South Korea, government to fund Japan studies at U.S. colleges
The Abe government has budgeted more than $15 million to fund Japan studies at nine universities overseas, including Georgetown and MIT, as part of a 'soft power' push to counter the growing influence of China and South Korea.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Mar 7, 2015
Where will 'proactive pacifism' lead us?
Seventy years after World War II ended, should we be thinking about war or about peace?
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Feb 14, 2015
Japan's public diplomacy is expensive and errant
Global understanding does not come cheaply. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government has budgeted ¥70 billion — yes, that's more than $500 million — to help get the word out about Japan and ensure that China and South Korea aren't the only ones controlling the narrative.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 16, 2014
U.S. soft power takes a hit in wake of report
It's a testimony to U.S. soft power that Washington persuaded so many allies to take part in a policy of torture that they must have known would one day blow up in their faces.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 4, 2014
Manga, the Rising Sun and Abe's history problem
During his recent visit to the United Nations, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reasserted his eagerness to improve relations with Japan's East Asian neighbors, but the reaction from Beijing and Seoul was tepid.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 28, 2014
China pushes soft power with hospital ship at RIMPAC
On a Chinese hospital ship off Hawaii, crew members demonstrate traditional massage techniques to U.S. sailors. The mood is one of collegiality, even after China opted out of Japan-led humanitarian drills at the world's largest international naval exercise.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Apr 19, 2014
Team Abe's alternate-reality Kool-Aid
Japan's relations with China and South Korea are in tatters, there has been no progress on dealing with North Korea's nuclear weapons program, strains with Washington persist, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks are at an impasse, whaling got harpooned and hopes for a deal with Russia on the northern...
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 17, 2014
Conservatives' insular mindset doesn't fit today's global reality
Japan has moved well beyond its islands, but in many respects, it has retained elements of an island mentality that is no longer compatible with its modern reality.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 2, 2013
China dons provocateur suit
However powerful President Xi Jinping might have become, China's declaration of a vast air-defense identification zone does not add to its store of 'soft power.'
Human error caused JAL jet collision at Haneda Airport: safety board
The wreckage of a Japan Airlines plane after a collision with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft, at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Jan. 5, three days after the crash.
Japan Airlines reports cyberattack on system, impacting flights
Japan Airlines jets at Tokyo's Haneda Airport in August. On Thursday, JAL announced its systems had been targeted in a cyberattack.
Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashes in Kazakhstan, killing 38
In this handout picture released by Kazakhstan's emergency situations ministry, emergency specialists work at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet near the western Kazakh city of Aktau on Dec. 25.
Toyota to donate $1 million to Trump’s inauguration ceremony
This is set to be the first time Toyota will donate to a U.S. inauguration ceremony.
Chinese man sentenced for vandalizing Yasukuni Shrine
The entrance to Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo on Dec. 1
Step into ukiyo-e: A digital journey through Japan’s traditional art form
"Ukiyoe Immersive Art Exhibition" includes an installation of Katsushika Hokusai’s “The Great Wave off Kanagawa.”
High levels of PFAS found in water from 44 private suppliers across Japan
The Self-Defense Forces facilities are believed to have become sources of PFAS contamination because they used firefighting foam containing the toxic chemicals in the past.
For baseball fans, 2024 brought The Summer of Shohei Ohtani
Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani reacts to a standing ovation from fans after hitting his 50th home run of the season, against the Marlins in Miami on Sept. 19.
Trump's Pentagon policy pick pushed for Japan to spend 3% of GDP on defense
Elbridge Colby (center) speaks at the Threat and the Strategy panel during the Air Force Association Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, in September 2019.
A brief history of ‘osechi ryōri,' Japan's edible tradition for the new year
Japan's traditional New Year cuisine has a long history, though modern developments have led to slight changes in the way things work.

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