China takes the spotlight during German Chancellor Olaf Scholz '12 hour trip to China. Meanwhile, favored partner Japan welcomed Germany's Federal President.
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Japan's geopolitical neighborhood faces a triple crisis, but most Diet members are focused on trivia instead of protecting the people and our homeland.
"Market mechanisms are always followed by tears and laughter," says Sojitz Research Institute Chief Economist Tatsuhiko Yoshizaki on the weak yen.
The Praemium Imperiale advisor talks about the role of art in helping us appreciate our common humanity as aggressive nations threaten to drive the world apart.
China looms larger than ever before in a wide range of regional security topics that prime ministers Kishida and Albanese will discuss.
Like the "My Number Card" has shown, incentives work. Using mutual love of J-pop and K-pop, Japan and South Korea can turn around their relationship.
"To enter directly into the conflict in Ukraine would be tantamount to starting World War III," says Colonel Wilkerson, former COS to Colin Powell.
Japan remains constantly exposed to the menace of North Korean missiles, and ominously the Kim regime recently "legalized" its use of nuclear weapons.