This article originally appeared in the Sankei Shimbun morning edition, August 31, 2012. All ages and dates are counted from that date. “I regret to...
Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of Workers’ Party of Korea chairman and dictator Kim Jong-un, has been assassinated in an airport in Malaysia. Kim Jong-un has successively purged...
Kim Jong-nam lost the struggle for ascendancy to the dictatorship of North Korea to his younger half-brother, Kim Jong-un but he won the protection of China...
Just as the leaders of Japan and the United States were meeting to reaffirm their alliance, North Korea launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile into the Sea...
Another meeting between a U.S. secretary of defense and Japanese minister of defense took place February 3 and 4, as a show of the closeness between...
Now that Donald Trump has followed through on his campaign promise to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), hopes for trade liberalization between the...
A November 8, 2016, a chill went through the democratic world. A combination of disinformation, propaganda, and targeted leaks narrowly elevated Donald Trump to president of...
“The public is even more fond of entertainment than of information.” – William Randolph Hearst Back in the halcyon days of mid-October when everyone on...
The shadow of Trump looms large over 2017’s first session of the Diet, a 150-day ordinary session which kicked off on January 20th just hours before...
For Russia, 2014 was the bumpiest year in recent history. Western sanctions, which had followed the annexation of Crimea and support for separatist rebels in eastern...
The Trump Era is now officially underway. Eight years ago, as many as 1.8 million supporters descended on Washington, DC, shouting “Yes, we can!” in...
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May has given a speech outlining the principles which will guide Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union. She will lead the nation...