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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 20, 2021
The Biden-Putin summit through Tokyo's eyes
The long-anticipated first summit between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin was held in Geneva last week. Tokyo’s initial reaction was rather unnoteworthy, partly because the meeting ended at midnight Japan time.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 20, 2021
Iran elects hard-liner as nuclear talks enter critical phase
Ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi swept to a landslide win in Iran's presidential election, potentially setting Tehran on a more hostile course toward the West.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 19, 2021
Putin’s boasts about COVID-19 situation in Russia are unraveling
Already among the pandemic's worst-hit countries, Russia is experiencing a resurgence of the deadly virus aided by the rapid spread of the highly contagious delta strain.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jun 19, 2021
Biden’s cyber red line is prime for a Putin challenge, experts say
The Russian leader may attempt to comply with Biden's pronouncement by 'washing” hacking through 'affiliates in disparate nation states” to make it harder to attribute the attacks.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 19, 2021
Kremlin blames vaccine hesitancy as delta variant drives Moscow surge
The Kremlin on Friday blamed a surge in COVID-19 cases on reluctance to have vaccinations and "nihilism" after a record 9,056 new infections in Moscow, mostly with the new Delta variant, fanned fears of a third wave.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Jun 19, 2021
Biden starts off strong in Europe
Biden could rightfully claim that “the United States is back.” The lingering question is: For how long?
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 18, 2021
With Putin behind him, Biden’s focus shifts to Xi
The world's second-largest economy was on the agenda throughout Biden's meetings with the Group of Seven leaders, NATO, the European Union and even Putin.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 17, 2021
Biden and Putin paper over splits as both claim summit victories
Putin got one thing he craved — legitimacy on the international stage. Biden argued he confronted Putin over cyberattacks and Russia's treatment of democracy activists.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 12, 2021
Putin eyes working with 'predictable' Biden as Russia-U.S. ties remain tense
Putin suggested that, in spite of heightened tensions with the U.S., he may be able to work with Biden in part because he's more predictable than Trump.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 10, 2021
Court outlaws Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's network in pre-election knockout
The ruling delivers a final blow to a vast political network that Navalny built up over many years to try to challenge Putin's grip on power.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 9, 2021
It’s not a gulag, Russia says of plan to put prisoners to work
The head of the country's prison service offered a solution to the shortage of migrant labor through reviving the Soviet-era practice.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 8, 2021
Legacy weapons are eroding the military’s edge
Though the U.S. spends three times more on defense than any other country, its technological edge is eroding — due in part to the cost of maintaining aging weapons programs.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 8, 2021
Biden bringing game to G7 summit
The Biden administration was wise to acknowledge that it could not stop the pipeline. It therefore decided to use acceptance of the project to gain more cooperation from Germany.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Jun 6, 2021
Japan Times 1971: Japanese believe they are 'superior'
As witnesses took to the stand at the 1946 Tokyo trials, they addressed the propaganda campaign that led the Japanese to think they were superior. Attitudes hadn't changed 25 years later.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 3, 2021
America must rediscover human-rights realism
A policy that virtually ignored human rights, however, would reduce the U.S. to the one-dimensional realpolitik that characterizes Chinese and Russian behavior.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 3, 2021
Hacks force Biden into more aggressive stance on Russia
The U.S. president has launched a review of the threat posed by ransomware after an attack on JBS, the world's largest meatpacker.

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