Economy | ANALYSIS
Households to take hit from tax hike
by Tomoko Otake
The consumption tax increase will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people’s financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the hike's impact.
Opinion
The movie exposing the lies at the heart of U.S. capitalism
by Carole Cadwalladr
In one sense, “Inequality for All” is absolutely the film of the moment. We are living through tumultuous times. The economy has tanked. Austerity has cut a swath through our lives. And in a parallel universe, a cohort of alien beings — bankers, as we know them — are currently ...
Opinion
Bizarre ideology of fringe Republican convention
by Paul Harris
Gene Wisdom, a 55-year-old conservative from Nashville, Tennessee, was no fan of Barack Obama. Clutching a book called “The Communist,” ...
Opinion
The digital pioneer who became a Web rebel
Jaron Lanier is that rarest of rare birds — an uber-geek who is highly critical of the world created by ...
Global-related Mar 4, 2013
Park's challenge: Advancing South by rising above father's, Lee's legacies
by William Pesek
The life of Park Geun Hye, South Korea’s just-inaugurated first female president, has so far been bookended by two larger-than-life men of debatable success. The first is her father, Park Chung Hee, the dictator who ruled the nation for 18 years until his assassination ...
Opinion Dec 30, 2012
Japanese story anthology shows fiction truly a transnational affair
by David Cozy
SPECULATIVE JAPAN 3: “Silver Bullet” and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy. Kurodahan Press, 2012, 292 pp., $16 (paperback) One pleasing quality of the third volume of Kurodahan Press’s “Speculative Japan” series of anthologies is that it exists at all. Generally, an ...
Opinion Dec 21, 2012
Ms. Park returns to the Blue House
Ms. Park Geun Hye has eked out a victory in South Korea’s presidential election. The conservative candidate narrowly bested progressive rival Moon Jae In in a contest whose outcome was not apparent until the votes were counted. Her win is an important moment for ...