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Pankaj Mishra
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2022
Why so many countries want to sit out the new Cold War
Some countries¡¯ distrust of aggressive regional powers such as Russia and China is balanced by suspicions that the U.S. is a profoundly weakened and highly unstable superpower.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 5, 2022
Boris Johnson and the woeful and costly Tory war on woke
While freedom-loving Tories make their last stand, the evidence shows that coordinated action by governments and solidarity among citizens are what will contain the pandemic.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 19, 2021
Israel faces greater dangers than Hamas
The mob violence between Jews and Arabs should not be underestimated: It represents a watershed in the history of Israel.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 8, 2021
U.S.-China cold war will have more than two sides
The real danger ahead, however, is not so much a new cold war as binary modes of thinking that see stark divisions and antagonisms where none exist.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 2, 2021
COVID-19 exposes the cracks in the world¡¯s big democracies
The U.S., U.K. and India have suffered at the hands of incompetent leaders and a severe lack of preparedness.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY
Nov 15, 2020
Macron doesn¡¯t need to insult Islam to defend free speech
It is one thing to defend freedom of expression ¡ª an obligation of all democratic leaders. It is quite another to deploy a whole nation behind a particular expression of that freedom.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 11, 2020
America¡¯s age of anger is just getting started
There is little respite from clownish demagoguery once a long-standing political order loses credibility and legitimacy among a significantly large proportion of the population.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 17, 2020
Pandemic could foster new attitudes toward immigration
In recent weeks, doctors, nurses and care workers for the British National Health Service ¡ª in particular, immigrants ¡ª are presently being hailed for their gritty sense of duty, for standing between many people and premature death.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 14, 2020
With crisis, old media suddenly has the upper hand
After failing to anticipate the financial crisis, networks and major newspapers have earned a good chance of flourishing in the future.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 23, 2020
Coronavirus outbreak will revive the all-powerful state
Much maligned in recent years, big government will come back ¡ª and with it, the potential for both greater good and evil.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 20, 2020
Get ready, a bigger disruption is coming
The COVID-19 pandemic reflects a systemic crisis akin to the seminal crashes of the 20th century.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 26, 2019
U.S. trade wars expose an abiding truth
Free trade turns out to be something that helps a rising great power, until it doesn¡¯t.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 5, 2019
Democracy is on the march worldwide, not in retreat
Mass protests in country after country show how powerful the demand for social equality remains
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 22, 2019
So what if Trump plays the race card
He¡¯s hardly the only politician to realize that ethnic nationalism is a means of creating a cohesive political community.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 12, 2019
See Iran¡¯s revolution as Iranians do
It was not about ¡®Muslim rage.¡¯ It was a rebellion against a Westernized, undemocratic technocracy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 22, 2018
The America before Trump wasn¡¯t so fantastic either
Making a better future requires an unsentimental reckoning with the past.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 15, 2017
Why the media keeps missing political earthquakes
The widely embraced political certainties of the 1980s and 1990s are dead, and those who still cling to them are condemned to repeat, ¡®I was wrong.¡¯
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 20, 2017
The media must embrace a new mission
Trump¡¯s much-derided, frequently written off and ultimately successful candidacy has exposed the intellectual inadequacies and political perils of mono-journalism.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 23, 2016
Suu Kyi¡¯s greatest challenge is to share power
Myanmar¡¯s new government should strive to accomodate the country¡¯s ethnic minorities through greater autonomy and federalism.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 29, 2016
A brutal majority in Kashmir and elsewhere
The rise of a rabid majoritarianism is part of a larger rejection of politics based on reason and dialogue.
Japan weighs regulating Pokemon cards amid trading mania
A Pokemon event is held in Jakarta on July 11
Head of Swiss euthanasia firm dies after collapsing while ascending Mount Fuji
Around 200,000 people typically scale the 3,776 meter Mount Fuji each year.
Indian brothers make manga debut in Japan
Two Indian brothers made their manga debut in Japan with "Kung Fu Kung Fool" ¡ª an action-comedy series that follows the adventures of a notorious thief and a young boy.
Japan scientists identify clusters of protein believed to trigger Alzheimer¡¯s disease
A team of researchers said they found a ¡°seed¡± that accelerates the amyloid beta accumulation process in the brain, naming it ¡°Peak 1 amyloid beta,¡± as seen in a mouse's brain.
A perfect storm: Kaze Fujii fans flock to Fuji Rock
Okayama-born singer-songwriter Kaze Fujii has carved out a distinctive place in Japanese pop since his major-label debut in 2019.
The sci-fi sensibilities of electronic trio Black Boboi
Black Boboi was formed in 2018 when solo artists Julia Shortreed, Utena Kobayashi and Ermhoi came together under Kobayashi¡¯s newly founded label, Bindividual.
A perfect storm: Kaze Fujii fans flock to Fuji Rock
Okayama-born singer-songwriter Kaze Fujii has carved out a distinctive place in Japanese pop since his major-label debut in 2019.
Can Japanese comedy get laughs in English? Yoshimoto Kogyo lets the jokes rip
Wes-P has millions of followers and his viral clips made him recognizable out of Japan.
The 180-day locals: Life on Japan¡¯s digital nomad visa
Christopher Flinn works remotely from Tokyo earlier this month. Japan issued 646 digital nomad visas in 2025, but tourism officials are hoping to increase that figure in the coming years, with Japan's relatively cheap cost of living and the weak yen seen as potential draws for young professionals.
Japan reveals hint of new defense spending target in fiscal blueprint
The Self-Defense Forces' Type 16 mobile combat vehicle fires during a joint live-fire drill with U.S. Marines as part of the annual Resolute Dragon exercises in Yufu, Oita Prefecture, on June 28.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan¡¯s landscape that they often go unnoticed.
Why Japan¡¯s utility poles won¡¯t be disappearing anytime soon
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