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Jo Kim
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 21, 2021
Beijing¡¯s military-heavy approach to Taiwan locks the U.S. and China in a security dilemma
While the policy of ¡°strategic ambiguity¡± allows the U.S. to avoid committing to the defense of Taiwan against a Chinese invasion, China¡¯s growing military coercion behooves the it to act.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 1, 2020
With support for Black Lives Matter, China crosses a thin line
Beijing¡¯s propaganda use of the anti-racism movement risks backfiring.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2020
Why China¡¯s propaganda efforts so often backfire
An obsession with finding enemies and uniting the front makes it difficult to ¡®tell China¡¯s story well.¡±
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 11, 2020
Taiwan¡¯s success is the bane of Beijing¡¯s propaganda
Over the last few weeks, the world has observed a grand PR campaign from Beijing, an attempt to shift the global narrative in China¡¯s favor by touting its containment of COVID-19 as the successful outcome of its political model.
COMMENTARY
Nov 2, 2011
U.S. military spending cuts have gone too far
We shouldn¡¯t gut defense. A central question of our budget debates is how much we allow growing social spending to crowd out the military and, in effect, force the United States into a dangerous, slow-motion disarmament.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Putin visits disputed Etorofu island off Hokkaido, sparking protest from Tokyo
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Yasny fish processing factory on Etorofu island, one of four islands in the contested chain known as the Kuril Islands in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan, on Thursday.
Â鶹´«Ã½ inflation paradox is creating winners and losers
Chieko Sugai at her home in Murakami, Niigata Prefecture
How U.S. bombing survey in Japan shed light on civilian sentiments of WWII
Residents are seen walking beside rubble in the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, in this undated photo taken soon after the end of World War II.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Takaichi needs Aso on her side to solidify position in LDP
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a Liberal Democratic Party meeting alongside LDP Secretary-General Shunichi Suzuki (left) and LDP Vice President Taro Aso in Tokyo earlier this month
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.

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