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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney attends a news conference with his Japanese counterpart, Sanae Takaichi, in Tokyo on March 6.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2026
Mark Carney has given Canadians something to celebrate
Carney has improved Canada¡¯s global reputation, but economic weakness, domestic political challenges and relations with the U.S. will determine whether his early gains endure.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Jan. 16.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
May 11, 2026
Canada¡¯s China recalibration: Rapprochement or risk-hedging?
Ottawa¡¯s playing of the China card helps counterbalance U.S. pressure.
Instead of leveraging their combined economic weight, African countries are pursuing fragmented bilateral agreements that leave them as junior partners and vulnerable to countries like China and the U.S.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2026
The new ¡®scramble for Africa¡¯ risks becoming divide and conquer
The disunity persists despite Africa¡¯s enormous advantages, including a rapidly growing consumer market and dominant control of critical minerals essential to the global economy.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Canadian counterpart, Mark Carney, meet in Tokyo on March 6. Takaichi is Â鶹´«Ã½ first female prime minister, while Canada has not had a woman serve in the post in more than three decades.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 13, 2026
Mirrors and blind spots: Japan, Canada and gender equality
Canada¡¯s numbers do not describe a country that has solved gender inequality. They suggest one that may be coasting on a progressive reputation not fully matched by outcomes.
By weaponizing tools designed to manage the global economy through international coordination, American President Donald Trump is undermining U.S. credibility and pushing allies to shun it and its markets.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 20, 2026
Make America trustworthy again
Weaponized economic leverage and unpredictable U.S. policies risk eroding global trust, pushing allies to diversify, shrinking cooperation and ultimately weakening American power.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi holds talks with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Nara on Jan. 13. Once a central diplomatic actor, Japan is increasingly absent as global power rivalries intensify.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 30, 2026
The cost of silence: Â鶹´«Ã½ diminishing relevance
This diplomatic fade is more than a temporary slump. Japan is experiencing a crisis of international relevance at precisely the moment when the rules-based order is fracturing.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers a speech during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 20. He was widely lauded for a speech in which he bluntly warned of a rupture in the global order and urged middle powers to act collectively.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 28, 2026
The age of ¡®middle powers,¡¯ hegemons and hypocrites
The future of global liberalism is dependent upon those countries that have sheltered under the U.S. security umbrella.
When U.S. President Donald Trump speaks of the need to secure Greenland and the Arctic, his words are the very same that Vladimir Putin cited for ordering the invasion of Ukraine.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 27, 2026
Has Greenland become Donald Trump¡¯s Crimea?
It¡¯s no coincidence that Trump is ramping up his quest to claim Greenland for the U.S. at the same time that Ukrainian territory is on the chopping block.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday. Carney warned that a belligerent, unconstrained United States under Donald Trump has shattered the rules-based world order.
EDITORIALS
Jan 23, 2026
Carney makes clear the world¡¯s choice
Carney this week offered one of the most unblinking, if not scathing, assessments of the world order.
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi meets with his Swiss counterpart, Martin Pfister, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday. Japan should revitalize the OECD as a hub for middle powers, moving beyond the Group of Seven and Bretton Woods.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 23, 2026
After Davos, middle powers matter more than ever
Japan is well placed to act as a custodian of cooperation among countries that still depend on functioning markets but can no longer rely on a single guarantor.
President Donald Trump addresses the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 22, 2026
China wins as Trump cedes leadership of the global economy
In a long, rambling address that was by turns bombastic, aggrieved and self-congratulatory, President Donald Trump pronounced last rites on American leadership of the liberal democratic order forged by the United States and its allies after World War II.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing at the White House on the one-year mark into his second term in office on Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 22, 2026
R-E-S-P-E-C-T ¨C What does it mean to Trump?
Europe¡¯s animus is easy to understand and it¡¯s likely to harden as Trump threatens NATO solidarity ¡ª if not its existence ¡ª with his insistence on taking control of Greenland.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a bilateral meeting with NATO's Secretary-General Mark Rutte (not shown) on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 22, 2026
Trump backs down on Europe tariffs over Greenland, saying deal framework reached
The U.S. president has suggested a deal is in sight to end a dispute over the Danish territory that risked the deepest rupture in transatlantic relations in decades.
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the media as he leaves the congress center during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 22, 2026
¡®Who can say no?¡¯ Trump¡¯s Board of Peace tests doubters¡¯ resolve in Davos
Officials from several regions said privately that joining the U.S. president¡¯s proposed board felt less like a choice and more an inevitability.
Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 21, 2026
China defends growth model at Davos, aiming to be ¡®world¡¯s market¡¯
Vice Premier He Lifeng presented China as an advocate of cooperation, free trade and multilateralism, reiterating many of Beijing¡¯s frequent talking points.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media, alongside Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, ahead of boarding Air Force One to depart for Washington, at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 21, 2026
Trump, sharing leaked texts and AI mock-ups, vows ¡®no going back¡¯ on Greenland
Trump¡¯s ambition to wrest sovereignty over Greenland from Denmark has threatened to blow apart alliances that underpin Western security.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers a speech during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 21, 2026
Carney¡¯s blunt message to Davos: The rules-based order is dead
The Canadian prime minister said that countries have no choice but to create new alliances to oppose pressure tactics and intimidation by the world¡¯s great powers.
"We have to have it,¡± U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters late Monday night, referring to Greenland. The U.S. leader earlier linked his claims on the Danish territory to not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in a letter he sent to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 20, 2026
Trump plans Greenland talks in Davos, dominating agenda at global summit
¡°We have to have it,¡± U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters late Monday night, referring to the Danish territory.
Flags flutter during the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting, in Davos, Switzerland, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 20, 2026
Global leaders gather in Switzerland to ponder the future of a messy world
Among the range of likely topics at the World Economic Forum lies one central question: What will U.S. President Donald Trump do next?
Protesters with Greenland flags gather outside the U.S. embassy in Copenhagen on Jan. 14.
WORLD
Jan 20, 2026
Greenland risks sucking out all the oxygen at Davos, Stubb says
Finland¡¯s president said the first step in resolving the issue of attention being diverted from Russia¡¯s war in Ukraine is to de-escalate rhetoric around Greenland.
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.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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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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