Suga’s China Challenge The new prime minister of Japan, Yoshihide Suga, takes office at a time of extraordinary geopolitical change. Although Suga has reiterated...
One of the lesser known facts about Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is that during a visit to India in 2007, he took time off...
The United States government has begun to tighten surveillance of Confucius Institutes operating in that country. Confucius Institutes are non-profit educational institutions established...
Sadaharu Oh performed one part of his former job ー bashing home runs ー better than anybody in pro baseball history. Which is why...
There is no sign of the prevalent novel coronavirus infections letting up in India as of the end of May. Nevertheless, India’s central government has...
There will be radical changes in the international environment brought about by the global havoc wreaked by the new coronavirus. The Sankei Shimbun...
I was born seven weeks early in April 1974, and my mother still reminds me about it. “You’ve always been in a hurry,” she...
The coronavirus pandemic has sent governments into a tizzy, with the United States emerging as one of the global hotspots. At the same time, this...
I am somewhat perplexed. Why do we rarely see in our media expressions of gratitude to President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump? On...
After the 1894-1895 Sino-Japanese War, then-German Emperor Wilhelm II (1859-1941) trumpeted the racist ideology of “Yellow Peril,” sounding an alarm across Europe. He fomented fear by...
When I requested a review copy of this book, I expected something rather similar to Japan As Number One — relatively short, journalistic, and...
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