Editorial & Columns
Political Pulse
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Sapporo 2030 bid buffeted by Tokyo Games corruption scandal
Sapporo’s bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics and Paralympics is caught in a blizzard. A former executi...
November 5, 2022
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Kishida aims to beef up defense, tackle bureaucratic sectionalism
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has set several goals to bolster Japan’s deterrence capability. One of ...
October 29, 2022
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Stately or silly, science prizes illustrate value of young researchers
The winners of this year’s Nobel Prizes were announced earlier this month. The Nobel Prize in Physic...
October 22, 2022
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Abe’s death puts focus on Kishida’s contrasting leadership qualities
“The different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea....
October 15, 2022
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Rise and fall of the yen is entwined with state of the economy
As the yen is weakening to historically low levels, tourists visiting Japan from overseas seem to th...
October 8, 2022
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Opposition parties must show they have ability to govern
As the extraordinary Diet session begins in October, opposition parties will take center stage. They...
October 1, 2022
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Why not let students manage their own sports clubs at school?
People often have nostalgic memories of their junior high and high school years. Working hard with y...
September 24, 2022
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Polarization of Japan’s voters began to accelerate this year
Political polarization has grown among the Japanese people: Now we are seeing aggressive divisions o...
September 17, 2022
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Japan needs a movement to support marriage among young people
A government panel of experts made headlines in July by calling Japan’s declining number of births a...
September 10, 2022
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Fraught relations with China call for ‘shitataka’ approach by Kishida
“Shitataka” is a Japanese word with multiple meanings that even Japanese find difficult to explain i...
September 3, 2022
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Teleworkers in Japan miss interpersonal satisfactions of office life
At 79, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones is still on stage, belting out the legendary British rock b...
August 27, 2022
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Kishida faces a political landscape greatly altered by Abe’s death
The shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has had a major impact on the administration of Pri...
August 20, 2022
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Authoritarian regimes need a neighborly nudge toward democracy
Authoritarianism now runs rampant in some parts of Southeast Asia. I was a correspondent in this reg...
August 13, 2022
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Women candidates advance beyond ‘token’ status in Japanese politics
Women who are in the minority of a group are often treated as tokens. Harvard University Prof. Rosab...
August 6, 2022
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Would legalized gambling pollute the clean image of Japanese sports?
A draft proposal by the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry (METI) to lift the ban on sports bettin...
July 30, 2022
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