51³Ô¹ÏÍø

author

 
Menu
Search
 
July 25, 2026
 

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access

Meta

George Will
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 19, 2019
Has the Catholic Church committed the worst crime in U.S. history?
It¡¯s a fair question given the extent of horrifying alleged instances of sexual abuse of children and coverups.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 1, 2017
Will France elect a Gallic Obama?
Emmanual Macron is a virtuoso of vagueness who calls to mind a certain freshman senator in 2008.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 31, 2017
Why the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts should be abolished
It¡¯s a government frill that needs to be sheared.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 11, 2017
A wry squint into the grim future of the U.S.
Novelist Lionel Shriver imagines America slouching into dystopia merely by continuing current practices.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 14, 2017
Who¡¯ll protect Americans from their protectors?
The Trump administration wants to make America greater by making its companies less competitive.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 30, 2017
U.S. suffers an excess of intellectual emptiness
Both U.S. President Donald Trump and higher education suffer from a ¡®storm of outraged ego.¡¯
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 29, 2017
Understanding the real cost of protectionism
Does Donald Trump know that one American company might be ¡®destroying¡¯ more American jobs than China is?
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 24, 2017
Is Baseball Hall of Fame a museum or a shrine?
If Cooperstown wants admission to mean enshrinement, it must embrace and articulate the hall¡¯s ethic ¡ª that real success must be honorably achieved.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 18, 2017
Trump is the water beetle of American politics
Trump¡¯s feral cunning in manipulating the masses is instinctive, and his presidential term will be as novel as his campaign was.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 9, 2017
Obama¡¯s unforced errors on foreign policy
When U.S. President Barack Obama moves two miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to 2446 Belmont Road in Washington¡¯s Kalorama neighborhood, he will live half a mile from 2340 S Street, where Woodrow Wilson spent his three post-presidential years. Wilson¡¯s embittering foreign policy failure was the Senate¡¯s...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 4, 2017
Bidding good riddance to an unpleasant year
The year 2016 resembles a china shop after a visit from an especially maladroit bull.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 2, 2017
Protectionism will make America 1953 again
A revival of protectionism will hurt America more than it will help it.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 17, 2016
Starbucks and the pursuit of snobbery
It is not love that makes the world go ¡®round, it is a compound of envy and pretentiousness.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 5, 2016
France and the ¡®right¡¯ to be spared from guilt
A French court is censoring a video that says Down syndrome children can be happy.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 28, 2016
Hopefully the last of the charismatic totalitarians
With the end of Fidel Castro¡¯s life, we can hope to have seen the last of charismatic totalitarians worshiped by political pilgrims from open societies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 20, 2016
Did U.S. academia help elect Donald Trump?
U.S. institutions of supposedly higher education are awash with hysteria, authoritarianism, obscurantism, philistinism and charlatanry.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 10, 2016
A disruptive yet ruinous triumph for the GOP
Republicans are riding high now but demography will dictate a grim destiny for the party unless it acts to counter adverse trends.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 6, 2016
What you should watch for on election day
There will be plenty of fascinating aspects as the electoral numbers start to roll in.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2016
A fitting final chapter to the sleaze sweepstakes
Hillary Clinton¡¯s latest scandal shows there is no such thing as rock bottom in these presidential campaigns.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 11, 2016
Donald Trump is the GOP¡¯s chemotherapy
Trump is a marvelously efficient acid bath, stripping away his supporters¡¯ surfaces, exposing their skeletal essences.
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.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

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
By Alex K.T. Martin

SUSTAINABLE 51³Ô¹ÏÍø

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER