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Intense Debate in Lower House: Japan-U.S. Tariff Negotiations Draw the World’s Attention
Japan will be the first country in the world to negotiate with the United States over a review of...
April 15, 2025
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Expo Opens: Make The Event A Festival to Share Hopes for The Future
The 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo has opened. It is hoped that the event’s achievements will carry over ...
April 13, 2025
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Google: Strict Order Issued against Tech Giant over Practices That Hinder Competition
The Japan Fair Trade Commission has issued its first strict administrative order against Google L...
April 17, 2025
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Additional Release of Stockpiled Rice: Urgently Dispel Concerns Contributing to High Prices
Despite the release of stockpiled rice by the government, rice prices continue to soar, causing g...
April 15, 2025
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Abolition of Promissory Notes: Ensure Small, Midsize Firms Do Not Have Trouble with Payments
Promissory notes and checks, which have been widely used as a means of corporate payment, are set...
April 14, 2025
Yomiuri Editorial
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Diet Reform: Can Ruling, Opposition Parties Keep to Their Agreement This Time?
The free trade system is on the verge of collapse. The war in Ukraine and conflicts in the Middle...
April 18, 2025
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Japan-U.S. Tariff Negotiations: Both Countries Should Seek a Mutually Beneficial Path
The Japan-U.S. negotiations are apparently off to a safe start. Both Japan and the United States ...
April 18, 2025
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Google: Strict Order Issued against Tech Giant over Practices That Hinder Competition
The Japan Fair Trade Commission has issued its first strict administrative order against Google L...
April 17, 2025
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Southeast Asia: Region Set as Main Stage for U.S.-China Rivalry
Chinese President Xi Jinping is currently on a three-nation tour in Southeast Asia, visiting Viet...
April 17, 2025
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100 Years since Start of Broadcasting: TV Stations Bear Heavy Responsibility to Produce Quality Programs
The internet is flooded with information of unknown veracity and extreme videos. The very nature ...
April 16, 2025
Political Pulse
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Students Develop Local Products; Learn About SDGs; Sustainability, Responsible Consumption Among Themes
You have probably heard the term SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). You may even recall specif...
April 12, 2025
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Will Japan’s Next Prime Minister Come from outside the LDP?
A crisis looms for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.
In the House of Representatives electio...
April 5, 2025
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‘High-Value Guests’ May be Key to Sustainable Tourism; Big Spenders More Easily Accommodated than Big Crowds
The number of visitors to Japan in 2024 was 36.87 million, nearly 5 million more than the 31.88 m...
March 29, 2025
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‘Deliberative’ Diet Session a Debacle for Ishiba Cabinet; Ruling, Opposition Sides Both Shirking Responsibility
The atmosphere was far from uplifting when the Liberal Democratic Party held its annual conventio...
March 22, 2025
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Can Expo Show Bright Future and Recognize Dark Present? Event May Offer Chances for Dialogue Amid Intl Conflict
On April 13, the Osaka-Kansai Expo will begin a six-month run on Yumeshima, an artificial island ...
March 15, 2025
Insights Into The World
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Trump Pulls The Curtains Closed on The ‘U.S. Century’
“The golden age of America begins right now,” said U.S. President Donald Trump in his inaugural s...
April 11, 2025
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Reform Vote System to Better Reflect Voters’ Voices
When one large group of people and many small groups live together in a certain place, this situa...
March 28, 2025
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Japan Should Strengthen Its Ties with Southeast Asia
U.S. President Donald Trump, having returned to power, has continued to shock and baffle the worl...
March 21, 2025
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The BOJ Is Too Dovish on Its Interest Rate Policy
Three years will soon have passed since Japan’s consumer price inflation topped 2%. Has the Japan...
March 7, 2025
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A Lawless President Seeks to Centralize His Power
Prior to last November’s election, there was public discussion of whether Trump was a fascist. I ...
February 21, 2025
Cultural Viewpoints
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Beyond the Paper Screen / Homemaking on the Go Never Really Stops
It was a typical day in Oregon in mid-May: drizzles, clouds, five minutes of sunshine, drizzles a...
March 25, 2024
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Cultural Conundrums / What Follows ‘Batter Up!Pqx: Cultural Accommodation in Baseball Risk-Taking
The great thing about culture is that it’s everywhere. I am not a fan of baseball, but my spouse ...
March 10, 2024
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Beyond the Paper Screen / Navigating the Future of Work: Change, Creativity and Human Resilience
In my class, which is for students who are just starting their major in sociology and anthropology, ...
February 18, 2024
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Cultural Conundrums / Getting to Friendships: The Challenges of Context-driven Social Relationships
Friendships sustain us in life, keeping loneliness at bay and providing us with a chance to grow thr...
February 4, 2024
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A Joyful Paradox: Rethinking Play in the Modern World
By Sawa Kurotani / Special to The Japan News [posttime] JST, [postdate] I think I was about 10 ...
January 21, 2024
Outside Contributors
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Japan a Positive Counterexample in Age of Revisionism; Changes to World Order Should be Peaceful, Not Forced
Sergiy Korsunsky, the Ukrainian ambassador to Japan 2020-2025, has worked tirelessly since the st...
April 12, 2025
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Kansai Pavilion Showcases Diverse Attractions of Host Region
Even before the Osaka-Kansai Expo formally opens on April 13, the host region will open its own K...
April 3, 2025
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U.S. Startups Can Help Support Japanese AI Applications; Synthetic Data One Way to Boost Learning by AI
My guest and I raised our first beers with a “kampai” toast at Andy’s Shin Hinomoto in November 2...
March 26, 2025
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Bleak Outlook for Trump’s Effect on World; Visible Symptoms Mar Global Condition
U.S. President Donald Trump’s return to office in January struck the world like the relapse of an...
March 22, 2025
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EU Stands with Ukraine Shoulder to Shoulder
On Feb. 24, 2022, Russia began its aggression against Ukraine. Three years on, EU Ambassador to J...
February 24, 2025
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