

EDITORIALS
Editorials
Supply chain review reflects new national security mentality
National security strictly defined should drive government action, not a desire to protect domestic companies.
Editorials / Commentary
A strong stock market is good for Japan, but more important is the health of the overall economy. That remains in doubt.
COMMENTARY

Ramesh Thakur
In one clumsy strike, Facebook unified the entire Australian political spectrum, alienated its users and underlined just why tech giants require enforceable regulation.
Tae Kim
Does Twitter deserve the benefit of the doubt? They may see something to cheer but, at least for now, I don’t.
EDITORIALS
Editorials
The country has been embarrassed again by an antediluvian politician, with media at home and abroad condemning Mori’s remarks and the mindset it represents.
Editorials / Commentary
During the darkest days of Myanmar's military junta, Tokyo governments worried that isolating Myanmar would push it into China’s sphere of influence.
Editorials
If the Biden administration gets the big picture — “the larger context of its foreign policy” — right, then differences with allies will be manageable.
Editorials
Biden has promised an aggressive and activist agenda for his first ten days, with actions of both domestic and international import; his priority is attending to his nation’s ills.
Editorials
Brian Urquhart was the quintessential international civil servant — determined and unflappable — whose vision remained fixed on the big picture.
Editorials
The United States will survive this moment, but it will be wounded. We must recognize that even America, a bastion of democracy, can be undermined, and seduced by an autocrat.
Editorials / Commentary
Only by working together — as citizens and residents, politicians and medical health professionals — can we defeat COVID-19 and make 2021 the year of recovery and hope.
Editorials
Vogel’s passing leaves a great void and his death — like his life — should occasion reflection and action in Japan to honor and continue his efforts.
Editorials
Researchers found that people who participated in the government's Go To Travel campaign were as much as twice as likely to have COVID-19 symptoms than those who did not.
Editorials
Hayabusa2's successful mission may help us reclaim our own past
Science now allows us to pluck pieces of our history from asteroids as they whiz by.
COMMENTARY

Kuni Miyake
Yoshiro Mori reportedly decided to resign immediately after the remarks. It was the secretariat of the organizing committee who strongly pleaded with him to stay in his position.
Stephen Nagy
Since the Abe administration, Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) vision continues to evolve as conditions demand but at its core it stresses the pursuit of a rules-based order in the region, including the maritime security domain. It also aims to contribute to the ...
Therese Raphael
Trade deals, like peace agreements, aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on without good faith vested in their implementation. Just weeks after the Brexit trade agreement entered into force, intentions over the part of the deal that applies to Northern Ireland have been called into ...
Josef Joffe
The pipeline across the Baltic has pitted the United States and the European Union against Germany, and a swelling chorus of domestic critics against German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Mark Leonard
Europe no longer has any illusions that Russia is on a trajectory toward liberal democracy that could be accelerated through engagement.
James Stavridis
The case for maintaining a small yet strong military presence in Afghanistan is sound, if not popular.
David Howell
After the one-year respite caused by COVID-19, carbon emissions will be staying stubbornly high, just as they were before the pandemic pushed down world energy demand for a while.