Disasters South and North
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on September 8, 2018.
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The Case Against Aegis Ashore
While the Abe administration presents Aegis Ashore as an essential and relatively uncontroversial contribution to the defense of Japan from the North Korean threat, in reality the deployment of this missile defense system risks further destabilizing the security situation in Northeast Asia, especially with regard to Russia.
Massive Rainstorm Devastates Western Japan
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on July 10, 2018.
DHC Television: Cosmetics and Conspiracy Theories
SNA (Tokyo) — Japan’s ultranationalist elite, shut out of the mainstream discourse of a significantly civil society and venues such as broadcast television, have found a cozy new home for their creative history and effusions of ethnic supremacy on the American website YouTube. Although there
Ruling Coalition Wins in Niigata
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on June 10, 2018.
Peace Walker of Libya
Nuri Funas, an ordinary citizen of Libya, has been traveling the world on foot with a message of peace. The SNA interviewed him at the Libyan Embassy in Tokyo recently during his stop in the Japanese capital.
Abe Aims for Pro-Government News Stations
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on March 17, 2018.
Japan and the Northern Sea Route
Global warming is progressively creating a new reality that ships from East Asia, including Japan, might soon be regularly able to reach Europe more quickly via the shipping route that runs along Russia’s Arctic coast, from the Bering Strait in the east to the Kara Sea in the west, rather than using the conventional route via the Suez Canal.
Japan Dead Last in Gender Equality Ranking
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on March 4, 2018.
Japan Lags on Socially Responsible Business Investment
In recent years the rise of Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance investing has created powerful new incentives to compel companies to make meaningful changes to how they do business, but Japan remains far behind the curve.
