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EDITORIAL | Reelected Tokyo Governor Koike Must Prioritize Control of Coronavirus Infections

Editorial Board, The Sankei Shimbun July 7, 2020

Yuriko Koike, 67, garnering high marks from voters, won a second four-year...

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EDITORIAL | Why Won’t Japan Ease Travel Restrictions on Taiwan?

Editorial Board, The Sankei Shimbun July 6, 2020

Japan has lifted some of its restrictions on travel into and out of...

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EDITORIAL | Free Nations Must Sanction China for Crushing Freedom in Hong Kong

Editorial Board, The Sankei Shimbun July 1, 2020

Late on the evening of Tuesday, June 30, the Standing Committee of...

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EDITORIAL | Call the Senkakus By Their Japanese Name, Assign Personnel to Live on the Islands

Editorial Board, The Sankei Shimbun July 1, 2020

On June 22, the Ishigaki Municipal Assembly approved a resolution renaming an...

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EDITORIAL | Australia-India Security Pact Should Help Realize U.S. and Japan’s ‘Free Seas’ Vision

Editorial Board, The Sankei Shimbun June 29, 2020

Two major countries in the Indo-Pacific region, Australia and India, have reached...

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EDITORIAL | Pyongyang Must Not Be Rewarded for Its Latest Provocations

Editorial Board, The Sankei Shimbun June 23, 2020

On the evening of June 16, North Korea blew up the Inter-Korean Joint...

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EDITORIAL | ‘Tokyo Alert’ Lifted, But Stay Vigilant and Upgrade the Medical System

Editorial Board, The Sankei Shimbun June 17, 2020

Although the illumination on the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building and the Rainbow Bridge...

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EDITORIAL | What Matters Is What We Teach, Not When We Start the School Year

Editorial Board, The Sankei Shimbun June 16, 2020

Proposals to move the start of the academic year from April to...

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EDITORIAL | Japan Should Lead Global Effort to Make COVID-19 Vaccine Available to the World

Editorial Board, The Sankei Shimbun June 11, 2020

To overcome the global pandemic, it is imperative for the international community to...

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EDITORIAL | Shigeru Yokota’s Death A Call for PM Abe to Break the Deadlock Over Abductions

Editorial Board, The Sankei Shimbun June 9, 2020

It saddens us deeply to report the death of Shigeru Yokota on...

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EDITORIAL | Do We Really Want Xi Jinping Coming to Japan for a State Visit?

Editorial Board, The Sankei Shimbun June 8, 2020

On June 4 the world marked the 31st anniversary of the infamous Tiananmen...

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EDITORIAL | End Cyberbullying: Disclose Identities of Malicious Social Media Users

Editorial Board, The Sankei Shimbun June 4, 2020

At times, words become weapons and cause violence. Anonymous online slander can turn...