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Listing of Kioxia: Strengthen semiconductor production base
It is important to strengthen Japan’s economic competitiveness by building a domestic production ...
December 25, 2024
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Electronic Voting in Elections: How Can Effectiveness, Security Be Improved?
Electronic voting, in which voters cast their election ballots via digital terminals installed at...
December 24, 2024
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MUFG Bank: Deterioration of Professional Ethics Is Intolerable
Employee theft should never occur at banks, which hold their customers’ precious assets. The dete...
December 23, 2024
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School Libraries: Create Spaces Where Students Can Learn The Joy of Reading
School libraries are important places for children to learn about the appeal of books and the sig...
December 26, 2024
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U.S., Japanese Monetary Policies: Both Nations’ Central Banks Should Strive to Discern Future Uncertainty
The Japanese and U.S. economies are both robust, but uncertainty about the future is rising. This...
December 24, 2024
Yomiuri Editorial
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Budget Proposal for Next Fiscal Year: Steep Path to Fiscal Consolidation despite Increased Tax Revenue
What should the national budget be like to realize a society in which people can live with peace ...
December 28, 2024
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Cyberattacks: Build Defense Systems for Key Elements of Infrastructure
Elements of the nation’s critical infrastructure — an airline and a bank — were hit by a series o...
December 28, 2024
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Rapid Spread of Influenza: Reassess Loosened Measures against Infectious Diseases
With the full-fledged arrival of the winter season, the number of influenza cases is increasing. ...
December 27, 2024
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Relocation of U.S. forces to Guam: Steadily reduce burden on Okinawa in hosting bases
Seventy percent of the facilities exclusively used by the U.S. military in Japan are concentrated...
December 27, 2024
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School Libraries: Create Spaces Where Students Can Learn The Joy of Reading
School libraries are important places for children to learn about the appeal of books and the sig...
December 26, 2024
Political Pulse
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Can a 1950s Prime Minister’s Approach Work Today? Ishiba, LDP Attempt Multilateral Political Dialogue
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who is also president of the Liberal Democratic Party, is seeking ...
December 28, 2024
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Are Tourists Loving Japan’s Ancient Capital to Death? Kyoto Seeks Ways to Welcome Visitors Sustainably
Kyoto, one of Japan’s major tourist destinations, is suffering from overtourism amid booming inbo...
December 21, 2024
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China Will Benefit If Ishiba’s Ideals Strain U.S. Ties; No Longer On The Sidelines, PM Must Learn Realism
Shigeru Ishiba, whose Liberal Democratic Party suffered a disastrous defeat in the October genera...
December 14, 2024
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Japan Must Prepare To Host Deaflympics in 2025; Intl Sign Language Interpreters Especially Needed
Less than a year remains until the opening of the Tokyo Deaflympics, an international sports even...
December 7, 2024
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LDP’s Minority Govt Sets Stage For ‘3rd Pole Era’; Political History Suggests Instability Will Result
The political scene has undergone drastic change after the defeat of the ruling Liberal Democrati...
November 30, 2024
Insights Into The World
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‘Syrian Spring’ Ends 50 Years of Assad’s Brutal Rule
In the seventh century, Muslim armies, advancing north from the Arabian Peninsula, were able to e...
December 27, 2024
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Japan, Europe must hold line against power plays
Will power politics prevail in today’s world? In the war in Ukraine, Russia has reached the point o...
December 13, 2024
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A higher minimum wage doesn’t have to harm jobs
Fumio Otake / Special to The Yomiuri Shimbun [posttime] JST, [postdate] The administration of P...
December 6, 2024
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Dealing with Trump, and ‘a world without police’
“America is not the world’s policeman,” then U.S. President Barack Obama said in 2013. Now, as th...
November 29, 2024
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Time to break away from defense-only policy
Donald Trump has been reelected as U.S. president. I thought he was leading during the campaign, ...
November 22, 2024
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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Overlooking China’s Tyranny Endangers Japan’s Security; Suppression of Hong Kong Democracy Leaves No One Safe
Hong Kong legal scholar Benny Tai was sentenced to 10 years in prison by Hong Kong’s High Court l...
December 26, 2024
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Japanese Corporations, AI Startups Can Build Synergy; Both Have Qualities To Mutually Enhance Innovation
In February this year, I helped my client ClimateAI host a climate change wine tasting event at t...
November 16, 2024
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Polish Ambassador To Japan Reflects On Independence; In 1918 Poland Became Free From Russia, Other Empires
As silence fell over Europe’s trenches and battlefields on the 11th of November in 1918, World Wa...
November 13, 2024
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Orphan Girl’s Words Moved Emperor Showa to Tears; Encounter Happened on Postwar Tour Of Nation
On Aug. 14, 1945, Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration, which demanded Japan’s surrender, by th...
October 12, 2024
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Bilateral Alliance Stronger than Ever, and More Necessary than Ever
After three years in command, I am convinced the U.S.-Japan Alliance has never been more capable ...
October 7, 2024
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