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Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Mar 1, 2019
Fukui’s Obama: Overshadowed by a president
Although the presidential-themed euphoria surrounding the city of Obama has faded, the area's very tangible cultural legacies make it well worth a visit for the foodie and the history buff alike.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 7, 2017
The uncomfortable truth: Trump is not an aberration
There is hardly a single bad deed that Trump has or intends to carry out that does not have roots in policies championed by previous administrations.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 6, 2016
Afghanistan War simmers on
This month marks the 15th anniversary of the longest war in American history.
EDITORIALS
May 31, 2016
Obama's other important Asia stop
A strong economy will prove every bit as important as defense equipment as Vietnam contemplates its security needs.
EDITORIALS
May 29, 2016
Turning Obama's words into action
U.S. President Barack Obama's tribute to the 140,000 people who died from the atomic attack on Hiroshima was a symbolic moment, but efforts must be made to turn it into catalyst for action.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 26, 2016
Hiroshima visit highlights risks of nuclear weapons
To truly pay homage to those whose lives were lost or irrevocably altered by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, U.S. President Barack Obama's visit must galvanize the international community to move without delay toward a world free of nuclear weapons.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 23, 2016
Barack Obama at Hiroshima
U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Hiroshima will show the world how bonds of alliance and solidarity are forged and maintained.
COMMENTARY / World
May 23, 2016
How to make U.S.-Vietnam relations great again
America's enduring commitment to Asia includes not just defense ties but also support for human rights, religious and press freedoms, and commercial engagement.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 22, 2016
The big news is how little will change in Cuba
The Castro regime will likely survive unless the U.S. finally ends its economic embargo and exposes Cuba to the full force of international capitalism.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 21, 2016
Obama's historic Cuba visit
Without a strong economic impact, America's opening to Cuba will not make even a small contribution to political liberalization on the island.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 21, 2016
Will Cuba's path lead to authoritarian capitalism?
To believe that the Obama-initiated rapprochement with Cuba would help to usher in open politics there amounts to learning no lesson from the mistake the U.S. made on China since President Richard Nixon's 1972 Beijing visit.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 26, 2016
Will Obama's immigration overreach be policed?
The Supreme Court justices take up the president's immigration policy.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 15, 2016
Obama calls for bipartisanship while sabotaging it
In his final State of the Union, President Barack Obama offered a hopeful vision of the future while also expressing little interest in achieving it over the next 12 months.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 20, 2015
Putin fires a shot across Obama's bow
Barack Obama insists that Vladimir Putin's intervention in Syria is a sign of weakness, but the Russian Navy's recent cruise missile launch showed rising strength.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 11, 2015
Curbing global warming: mission impossible?
There is a 'mission impossible' quality to curbing global warming, though few say it so openly. The dependence of economic growth on fossil fules seems to strong to overcome.
EDITORIALS
Jul 6, 2015
Obama a lame duck? Think again
U.S. President Barack Obama is making good on his promise that he wouldn't be sidelined in his second term.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 7, 2014
Strategy against Islamic State in hand, Obama now must make it work
It took President Barack Obama and his top aides a week to explain that he does in fact have a strategy for confronting the Islamic State militancy. Now he has to prove that he can make it work.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 10, 2014
Obama-Perry Texas talks fraught over migrant children crisis
As a measure of how politically fraught President Barack Obama's Texas trip is Wednesday, Republican Gov. Rick Perry reluctantly agreed to a ritual public greeting of the nation's chief executive.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 8, 2014
Obama invites Texas Gov. Perry to meeting on immigration crisis
President Barack Obama invited Texas Gov. Rick Perry to a roundtable discussion in Dallas tomorrow on the surge of unaccompanied, undocumented children crossing the U.S.-Mexican border.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2013
Keep Asia in the forefront of U.S. foreign policy
U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to cancel his visits to the economic and political summits in Asia is a setback for the U.S. position in the region.

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