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Denny Roy
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 8, 2023
North Korea¡¯s failing foreign policy
Pyongyang¡¯s nuclear program has yet to increase the country¡¯s international standing, improve its security or enhance its ability to extract concessions from Tokyo, Seoul or Washington.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 16, 2020
China¡¯s Nobel Peace Prize problem
The Chinese government reportedly wants Oslo to guarantee that a Chinese dissident would never again win the Nobel Prize as a precondition for re-normalized relations.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 29, 2020
U.S.-China reconciliation is drifting further away
A recent speech by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo deepens the view that peaceful coexistence with an authoritarian and increasingly powerful China isn¡¯t possible.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 27, 2020
Did COVID-19 really give China a strategic advantage?
The pandemic has been more burden than opportunity for Beijing.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 17, 2020
U.S.-China tensions: It¡¯s worse this time
The safety nets that operated in both countries to prevent irretrievable damage to the relationship have rotted away.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2020
COVID-19 crisis reveals the CCP¡¯s true colors
When the Chinese Communist Party feels threatened, the world should not expect to see anything other than Beijing utilizing any means possible to reduce that threat.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2019
North Korea goes nuclear: A post-mortem
How did Pyongyang succeed when so many other states have failed to get nuclear missiles?
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 13, 2019
North Korea goes permanently nuclear ¡ª does it matter?
North Korea¡¯s possession of an arsenal of nuclear-armed missiles increasingly looks permanent. The U.S. government will continue to refuse to officially recognize this reality, mostly out of deference to Tokyo. However, the region has settled into a new status quo.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 2, 2019
The blackest hand in Hong Kong is Beijing¡¯s
Beijing will do anything necessary to pacify ¡®Chinese¡¯ territory and doesn¡¯t care much what the rest of the world thinks about it.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 30, 2018
Are U.S. FONOPs upholding freedom or stirring up trouble?
U.S. freedom of navigation missions in the South China Sea are aimed at preventing Beijing from establishing a sphere of influence.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 17, 2014
Don¡¯t overstate Japan ¡®danger¡¯
Chinese allegations that the Abe government is moving toward a militarist foreign policy demonstrate China¡¯s inability or unwillingness to acknowledge that current Chinese behavior contributes to the enhancements in Japanese security policy that China wishes to avoid.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2010
Korean peace still elusive, six decades on
HONOLULU, EAST-WEST WIRE ¡ª The tragic Korean War, which began 60 years ago, resulted from the post-World War II division of Korea by the United States and the Soviet Union ¡ª intended to be temporary ¡ª and from the political struggle that developed between Seoul and Pyongyang. After the division,...
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 3, 2008
Taiwan politics: Back to the good old days under the KMT
HONOLULU ¡ª Surprises and exciting finishes are the rule in Taiwan¡¯s elections. In the months before the presidential election on March 22, Nationalist Party (KMT) candidate Ma Ying-jeou led Democratic Progress Party (DPP) candidate Frank Hsieh Chang-ting in public opinion polls by as much as 20 percent,...
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.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
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.
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.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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