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December 07, 2023
 

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Workers collect recyclable garbage including plastic bottles on World Environment Day in Tokyo in June 2020.
COMMENTARY / Japan
New solutions tackle Japan’s waste problem at its core
By Mariko McTier
Issues like the plastics and climate crises seem insurmountable — until we apply "systemic design," as several Japanese initiatives are showing.
A protest against the visit by then-U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan in August 2022
COMMENTARY / World
The truth about ‘America skepticism’ in Taiwan
By Matthew Fulco
Distrust of the U.S. among Taiwanese people stems more from Washington’s policies than propaganda or misinformation.
Practioners of Judaism pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City on Nov. 12.
COMMENTARY / World
Unraveling the new roots of modern antisemitism
By Slavoj Zizek
Whereas antisemitism reproaches Jews for being rootless, Zionism tries to correct this supposed failure.

EDITORIALS

Ethnic Ta'ang National Liberation Army fighters stand guard at a check point in the town of Namhkam in Myanmar's northern Shan state on Nov. 10.
We must stop Myanmar’s descent into a failed state
Myanmar is at a crossroads and needs international support to prevent a collapse amid increased fighting.
EDITORIALS
Kishida is in trouble, but he’ll survive — for now
EDITORIALS
Biden-Xi meeting long on symbolism, short on substance
EDITORIALS
Can the world harness AI’s fire without getting burned?
EDITORIALS
The SDF has a big problem: Filling its ranks

COMMENTARY

A sign at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 6
World / Geoeconomic Briefing
How AI fits into China's raft of global initiatives
By Naoko Eto
The administration of President Xi Jinping has recently attached great importance to AI technology and is actively set on promoting it.
World
COP28 can deliver progress on climate change, but will it?
By Michael Spence
World
The life of the Pogues' frontman and the ‘banality of crazy’ in U.S. politics
By Brad Glosserman
Japan
New 'Godzilla' flick deftly tackles postwar Japan in cinematic triumph
By Gearoid Reidy
World
The China-Russia-North Korea triangle looks unlikely to last
By Yukihiro Hotta
World
Kissinger had a profound impact on Taiwan
By Matthew Fulco
World
U.N. peacekeeping is an essential multilateral tool for peace
By Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey and Jean-Pierre Lacroix
World
Chinese are making a killing everywhere but in China
By Shuli Ren
Japan
Being a listed company in Japan is losing its luster
By Gearoid Reidy
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Starbucks heads for record losing streak as sales concerns mount
Starbucks' stock has fallen for the past two weeks amid concern about "still-slow China data” and sales trends, according to one analyst.
Fukuoka court rules ban on dual nationality is constitutional
Yuri Kondo (center), the plaintiff of a dual nationality case, speaks during a news conference Wednesday in the city of Fukuoka after the Fukuoka District Court handed down a ruling on her case.
Police arrest Japan taxi driver after running over pigeon
Tokyo police had a veterinarian perform a postmortem on the hapless pigeon and determined its cause of death as traumatic shock.
Popularity of gender-neutral Japanese names rose in 2023
Gender-neutral names were more popular for Japanese babies born in 2023, a survey has found.
The China-Russia-North Korea triangle looks unlikely to last
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a meeting at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's far eastern Amur region on Sept. 13.
Tokyo aims to make high school tuition free of charge for all
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks during a Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly meeting on Monday.
Japanese students climb to third in OECD ranking of reading ability
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's learning assessment test showed that Japanese high school students ranked third in their ability to use reading skills to solve real-life problems, second in science and fifth in mathematics in 2022.
The wild card in Taiwan’s election: Frustrated young voters
Pedestrians cross a street in the Zhongshan district of Taipei. Many voters on the island, especially those in their 20s and 30s, say they are weary of geopolitics and yearn for a campaign more focused on their needs at home.
U.S. to deploy powerful new missile launcher to Indo-Pacific in '24
The U.S. Army's prototype Mid-Range Capability system, known as the “Typhon” Strategic Mid-Range Fires system, is seen in this image released in July following its successful launch of a Tomahawk missile.

Podcast

Pages from a new Otaku Dictionary catalog the lexicons of Japan’s various subcultures.
A problematic otaku dictionary and the Japanese approach to sitting

Longform

Tokyo Healthcare University professor Takayuki Mifune explains how he is trying to re-create bonito broth from 1,300 years ago.
The quest to re-create what the Japanese ate 1,300 years ago
By Alex K.T. Martin

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