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STATES

JAPAN
Mar 25, 2016
Islamic State a growing threat to East Asia, including Japan: defense review
A defense review released Friday said the threat was highlighted by the kidnapping and killing of Japanese nationals.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2016
The Trump effect on China
If the Chinese believe that they are being thwarted from getting their due place in the global sun, their anger could fuel the rise of a populist leader.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2016
Think life is hard now? Look back 100 years
Americans tend to forget the vast improvements that they've made in the past century.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 29, 2016
Taking a stance against strategic pessimism
Japan and Australia's special relationship is not based simply on shared interests but also on shared values.
SOCCER
Feb 20, 2016
U.S., Canada book tickets to Rio
Striker Alex Morgan scored a hat trick as the United States booked a place in the Rio Olympic women's soccer tournament with a 5-0 demolition of Trinidad and Tobago in a semifinal at the CONCACAF qualifying tournament in Houston on Friday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 15, 2016
A tumultuous campaign in the U.S.
Anger and insecurity threaten to shape, if not determine, the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2016
Ginowan mayor wants to lobby for base closure in Washington
Ginowan Mayor Atsushi Sakima hopes to visit Washington D.C. as early as April to press his case for closing U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma as early as possible.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 19, 2016
ASEAN goes missing from Obama's speech
The U.S. president's final State of the Union address captured an overly cautious approach to Asia amid a rising China.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 19, 2016
Foolishness over North Korea
The U.S. policy of diplomatically isolating Pyongyang is a failure and could be standing in the way of a solution to the impasse with North Korea.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 18, 2016
Why economic growth lags
A new book offers a sobering reminder of technology's limits.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 16, 2016
Top diplomats from Japan, U.S., South Korea suggest China is key to North Korea sanctions
Japan, South Korea and the United States held a vice ministerial meeting Saturday in Tokyo to ratchet up the pressure on Pyongyang over its recent nuclear test.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 7, 2016
Can the Dubai model inspire other Arab states?
The United Arab Emirates offer a path ahead based on globalization and compromise, which the region badly needs.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 6, 2016
Russia can use U.S. as an excuse for only so long
The Putin regime has helped create enmity with the West because it needs enemies for its legitimacy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 5, 2016
Russia's isolationism is official
Russia's latest National Security Strategy provides valuable material for the study of the angst, paranoia and befuddlement now gripping the Kremlin.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 30, 2015
A common thread in 2015's list of ludicrousness
Some of America's most ludicrous events in 2015 were the result of a collapse of judgment in, and the infantilization of society by, government.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 29, 2015
Solving America's stubborn poverty problem
To succeed, any new war on poverty in America must reverse several socially corrosive trends.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 28, 2015
Terrorists with assault rifles rewrite the script
The San Bernardino massacure has erased the conceptual line distinguishing domestic mass shootings from acts of Islamic terrorism in the minds of Americans.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 16, 2015
Chinese sub targeted U.S. carrier, report says
A Chinese submarine conducted a simulated missile attack on the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier near Japan in October, a report said Tuesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 14, 2015
Putting a price tag on U.S. gun violence
Would the economic benefit of stricter gun control in the U.S. outweigh the economic cost?

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