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Pankaj Mishra
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2022
Why so many countries want to sit out the new Cold War
Some countries' distrust of aggressive regional powers such as Russia and China is balanced by suspicions that the U.S. is a profoundly weakened and highly unstable superpower.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 5, 2022
Boris Johnson and the woeful and costly Tory war on woke
While freedom-loving Tories make their last stand, the evidence shows that coordinated action by governments and solidarity among citizens are what will contain the pandemic.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 19, 2021
Israel faces greater dangers than Hamas
The mob violence between Jews and Arabs should not be underestimated: It represents a watershed in the history of Israel.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 8, 2021
U.S.-China cold war will have more than two sides
The real danger ahead, however, is not so much a new cold war as binary modes of thinking that see stark divisions and antagonisms where none exist.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 2, 2021
COVID-19 exposes the cracks in the world's big democracies
The U.S., U.K. and India have suffered at the hands of incompetent leaders and a severe lack of preparedness.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY
Nov 15, 2020
Macron doesn’t need to insult Islam to defend free speech
It is one thing to defend freedom of expression — an obligation of all democratic leaders. It is quite another to deploy a whole nation behind a particular expression of that freedom.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 11, 2020
America’s age of anger is just getting started
There is little respite from clownish demagoguery once a long-standing political order loses credibility and legitimacy among a significantly large proportion of the population.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 17, 2020
Pandemic could foster new attitudes toward immigration
In recent weeks, doctors, nurses and care workers for the British National Health Service — in particular, immigrants — are presently being hailed for their gritty sense of duty, for standing between many people and premature death.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 14, 2020
With crisis, old media suddenly has the upper hand
After failing to anticipate the financial crisis, networks and major newspapers have earned a good chance of flourishing in the future.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 23, 2020
Coronavirus outbreak will revive the all-powerful state
Much maligned in recent years, big government will come back — and with it, the potential for both greater good and evil.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 20, 2020
Get ready, a bigger disruption is coming
The COVID-19 pandemic reflects a systemic crisis akin to the seminal crashes of the 20th century.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 26, 2019
U.S. trade wars expose an abiding truth
Free trade turns out to be something that helps a rising great power, until it doesn't.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 5, 2019
Democracy is on the march worldwide, not in retreat
Mass protests in country after country show how powerful the demand for social equality remains
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 22, 2019
So what if Trump plays the race card
He's hardly the only politician to realize that ethnic nationalism is a means of creating a cohesive political community.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 12, 2019
See Iran's revolution as Iranians do
It was not about 'Muslim rage.' It was a rebellion against a Westernized, undemocratic technocracy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 22, 2018
The America before Trump wasn't so fantastic either
Making a better future requires an unsentimental reckoning with the past.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 15, 2017
Why the media keeps missing political earthquakes
The widely embraced political certainties of the 1980s and 1990s are dead, and those who still cling to them are condemned to repeat, 'I was wrong.'
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 20, 2017
The media must embrace a new mission
Trump's much-derided, frequently written off and ultimately successful candidacy has exposed the intellectual inadequacies and political perils of mono-journalism.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 23, 2016
Suu Kyi's greatest challenge is to share power
Myanmar's new government should strive to accomodate the country's ethnic minorities through greater autonomy and federalism.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 29, 2016
A brutal majority in Kashmir and elsewhere
The rise of a rabid majoritarianism is part of a larger rejection of politics based on reason and dialogue.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
Tokyo emerges as a top market for global tech talent
Tokyo ranks among the world's top tech talent hubs alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to Colliers' newly released global tech markets report.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
CDP leader criticizes ‘Japanese First’ policy and calls for inclusive society
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yoshihiko Noda said it is obvious that Japanese society could not function without the help of foreign workers in manufacturing, health care, construction and public transportation.
JSA’s 100th anniversary event is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for sumo fans
Egyptian wrestler Osunaarashi has some fun with children during a special Japan Sumo Association event in 2017.
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Kawaii Lab redefines idol pop for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.

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