November 30, 2023

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COMMENTARY

University students attend a job fair. If Japanese companies continue hiring people based on the university they graduated from, acquiring extra qualifications or reskilling won't impact candidates' job prospects.

COMMENTARY / Japan

Kishida’s stimulus package needs rethinking, not reskilling

By Waka Konohana

The government aims to promote reskilling for nonregular workers to boost their job prospects, but this won't matter if hiring practices don't change.

A wind farm near near Golmud, Qinghai province, China

COMMENTARY / World

The promise of China’s sustainable-development path

By Andrew Sheng and Xiao Geng

As of this month, China has (since 2017) approved 572 “ecological civilization construction demonstration zones.”

Mourners at a funeral on Nov. 19 carry the body of a Palestinian shot dead earlier during a raid by Israeli forces on a refugee camp near the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem.

COMMENTARY / World

While Gaza burns, the West Bank is at a boiling point

By Ruth Pollard

Mideast violence spreads beyond Gaza into the West Bank causing the U.S. to take a stand against extremist Israeli settlers.

University students attend a job fair. If Japanese companies continue hiring people based on the university they graduated from, acquiring extra qualifications or reskilling won't impact candidates' job prospects.

Japan

Kishida’s stimulus package needs rethinking, not reskilling

By Waka Konohana

The government aims to promote reskilling for nonregular workers to boost their job prospects, but this won't matter if hiring practices don't change.

Japan

Canada's path to pragmatic Indo-Pacific engagement

By Stephen R. Nagy

Japan

Japan’s wastewater release could bring the region together

By Ralph A. Cossa and Brad Glosserman

Japan

Can Japan risk a Trump reelection?

By Yoichi Funabashi

Japan

The failure behind Japan’s bar exam pass rate

By Colin P.A. Jones

Japan

Nixon's 1953 trip to Okinawa and its lasting impact

By Robert D. Eldridge

Japan

Takaichi makes another play to become the next PM

By Michael MacArthur Bosack

South Korean and U.S. soldiers stand guard next to the United Nations Command Military Armistice Commission building on the South Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom in July 2017.

World

South Korea’s lessons for Ukraine’s reconstruction

By James Stavridis

Ukraine needs ironclad security guarantees, specifically NATO membership and the collective security that ensures.

World

India’s denials of Sikh separatist plots ring hollow

By Mihir Sharma

World

International law, warts and all, is still better than no law

By Andreas Kluth

World

The wars shaping the new world order

By Brahma Chellaney

World

Are India and Thailand revising their diplomatic balancing acts?

By Kuni Miyake

World

The geopolitics of EU enlargement

By Mark Leonard

World

Science hype and celebrity culture make a bad pair

By F.D. Flam

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An official shot for this year’s lineup for NHK’s annual “Kohaku Uta Gassen.”

Things get warmer with Xi; Johnny’s get the cold shoulder

Yoshiko Koide sits in a classroom at Nagoya College where she teaches a Japanese-language observation seminar.

How a dictionary came to spark outrage among the web’s otaku

By Thu-Huong Ha and Yukana Inoue

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