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For Stephen R. Nagy's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 16, 2020
It's time for the middle powers to step in
Japan and other middle powers need to come together to provide critical life support for the international order.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 2, 2020
Hong Kong national security law: Is China aiming to save the golden goose?
Japan needs to continue to convey to Beijing that the new national security law must be carefully implemented to ensure the 'One country, two systems' model stays intact.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY
Jun 18, 2020
Rational versus popular foreign policy
With anti-Chinese sentiment on the rise, crafting rational foreign policy will be increasingly a difficult needle to thread.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 4, 2020
A smart, not confrontational, China strategy needed
A smart China strategy must aim to hold China to its own principles when dealing with all other states.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY
May 21, 2020
Mitigating China's economic coercion
Japan and other like-minded states must build multilateral mechanisms to create greater resilience against punitive economic tactics.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 14, 2020
Standing up to economic coercion requires middle power solidarity
Japan can lead the way in building an alliance to blunt China's advances.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 30, 2020
An independent COVID-19 investigation is an imperative
As “real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance,” the realization of the 'Chinese Dream' will require the courage to face the shortcomings that led to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 16, 2020
Opportunity in crisis: Exploiting global disarray
China continues to destabilize the Indo-Pacific and try to reshape the international order in order to achieve regional dominance.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 9, 2020
Hammer or scalpel? Conquering COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic that emerged out of China has challenged all countries and regions where it has spread, including Japan. The question for most as the sense of crisis builds is what is the correct approach to take to mitigate an outbreak that could force the collapse of health care systems, result in unprecedented peacetime loss of life and unleash an economic tsunami.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 26, 2020
Crisis in leadership exacerbates pandemic
Japan has much to contribute to helping resolve the current global crisis in leadership and communication.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 12, 2020
Crisis exposes China's institutional problems
Beijing's COVID-19 response has exposed decision-making problems that are deeply inculcated into China's authoritarian system.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 27, 2020
Xi Jinping's coronavirus crucible
The COVID-19 epidemic presents an opportunity for Japan and other countries to rebalance their bilateral relations with China.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 13, 2020
Outbreak offers chance to boost cooperation
Japan and China should establish an Indo-Pacific emergency response initiative to decrease the chances that another tragedy like COVID-19 does not derail the prosperity and stability of the Indo-Pacific region.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 16, 2020
Japan-China ties, according to Beijing
Beijing's perceptions of the state of Japan-China relations and Japan-U.S. relations reflect an aspiration of what they hope to manifest.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 26, 2019
Japan's year that could have been
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe guided Japan's diplomacy in 2019 with a steady hand.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 12, 2019
Shifting into the era of the Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific era should not and must not be defined by the U.S.-China strategic competition.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 21, 2019
Japan's global leadership in the G-Zero world
How should and how can Japan navigate the world's emerging transformative and chaotic landscape?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 14, 2019
Japan's precarious Indo-Pacific balance
Japan's sustained economic growth and regional stability will not be served if Japan-China relations are securitized.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 24, 2019
A reset in Japan-China relations?
Comparing the state of Japan-China relations in the wake of Shinzo Abe's return to the prime ministership in December 2012 to today, the bilateral relationship has come back to a semblance of normality.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2019
Pride and prejudice with Chinese characteristics
The take-home message for Japan from Beijing's 70th anniversary extravaganza is that not all is as it seems in China.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
Golden Week crowds greeted with high temperatures as holiday period kicks off
The departure lobby for domestic flights is crowded with travelers at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Saturday, the first day of this year's Golden Week holidays.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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