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US POLITICS

EDITORIALS
Jan 30, 2017
America's disruptor in chief
The world must prepare for four years of disruption and disorder.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jan 30, 2017
Ruling coalition reshuffle?
Cracks are beginning to appear in the LDP-Komeito ruling coalition.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 27, 2017
Donald Trump unleashed
All administrations lie, spin and deceive, but judging from early indications, the new U.S. team is off the charts.
EDITORIALS
Jan 25, 2017
Get to the bottom of 'amakudari'
The practice of 'amakudari' remains widespread despite regulations tightened to prevent collusive ties between the bureaucracy and industries.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 24, 2017
Failure and hope in Women's March
Coopted by the Democrats, the Women's March was doomed to join the list of fruitless liberal marches — yet it gave hint at the better country Americans could have.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 20, 2017
The media must embrace a new mission
Trump's much-derided, frequently written off and ultimately successful candidacy has exposed the intellectual inadequacies and political perils of mono-journalism.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 18, 2017
What Obama deserves credit for — and doesn't
Did the departing U.S. president create national dysfunction, or was he just its victim?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 18, 2017
Obama: more war than peace
Obama has handed down to Trump more theaters of war than he inherited from Bush.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 18, 2017
Trump is the water beetle of American politics
Trump's feral cunning in manipulating the masses is instinctive, and his presidential term will be as novel as his campaign was.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 17, 2017
Trump's populist nationalism
The American dream of a fairer, more peaceful 'new world order' is over.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 17, 2017
Three rules of resistance against the new regime
It's time for Americans who oppose the Trump administration to get serious.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 10, 2017
The line between free speech and fake news
Fake news poses a threat to democratic institutions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 4, 2017
Impotent Democrats won't be America's savior
Americans who oppose Trump shouldn't waste time waiting for the Democratic Party to take action against him.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 3, 2017
Trump tweets Chicago must seek federal help if no progress is made in cutting murder rate
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said in a Twitter message Monday that Chicago's mayor must ask for U.S. government help if the city fails to reduce its homicide rate, which hit a 20-year high last year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 28, 2016
Crisis of democratic politics
The Abe administration is also riding on the wave of anti-establishment politics that's sweeping the world.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 27, 2016
Trump's win was unusual but not historic
The truly historic elections reshape or realign U.S. politics. There are many reasons to believe that 2016 isn't one of them.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 20, 2016
Democratic Party's choice: fight Trump or die
Democrats have one last chance to act like Democrats — something they haven't done in 50 years — or watch their party come apart at the seams.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 20, 2016
Disappearing divide between liberals and conservatives
If the Democratic Party wants to differentiate itself from the LDP and seek to return to power once again, it should embrace orthodox liberalism.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 13, 2016
How the European left lost the working class
If left-wing parties can't appeal to the working class, what's their use?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 13, 2016
Tweeting less can be more, Trump
To be successful in his new job, America's tweeter-in-chief will need to use social media differently than he did during the campaign.
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.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
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.

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