The Week is a podcast for busy people who want to keep abreast of views from Japan ー how global events are perceived, and even community...
The debate serves to demonstrate that bullying and sabre rattling by the PRC and Russia has strategic consequences; Japan and its friends have options in response.
There are 4.2 million Ukrainian refugees and Poland has taken in about 60%. Japan should welcome them too, as we would refugees from a contingency in...
“This is a crucial moment to end [Russia’s] outrageous aggression and protect the peaceful order.” ー Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
Xi Jinping wants a splintered Quad and a misdirected BRICS to send a message that regional alignments are led by China and Russia, but India has...
Prime Minister Kishida should also continue to express outrage at Russia’s continuing illegal occupation of Japan’s Northern Territories.
In a historic address to the Japanese parliament, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanks Japan for being the first Asian country to stand up for Ukraine.
Like in the movie Sunflower, war is tearing families and loved ones apart. Except what is happening in Ukraine is not in a movie but real...
The Dalai Lama’s liaison for Japan and East Asia predicts that Russia’s Putin will fail in Ukraine just like China has failed to erase Tibet’s religion,...
The former California governor, movie star and bodybuilder recalls boyhood idol Yury Vlasov in an emotional anti-war video.
The West gave him what? Stalin got armies and technology out of the war, and more than his fair share of the loot, including POWs and...
The morale is very low in the (Russian) army. They don't understand what they're fighting for" – Sergiy Korsunsky, Ukraine Ambassador to Japan.