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March 20, 2023   Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Russia this week with a plan to end Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Earlier this month, China successfully mediated an agreement bet...

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March 13, 2023   On March 10, Iran and Saudi Arabia announced in Beijing an agreement brokered by China to restore diplomatic relations. This development may symbolize the weakness of the U.S. admin...

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March 13, 2023   Japan-South Korea relations are heading toward normalization after Seoul announced a solution to the issue of wartime Korean workers in Japan. It is important to take advantage of t...

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March 13, 2023   The Bank of Japan in early April will launch a new leadership including economist Kazuo Ueda as governor, former Financial Services Agency Commissioner Ryozo Himino and BOJ Executiv...

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March 13, 2023   The number of births in Japan in 2022 slipped below 800,000 for the first time since records began in 1899 to 799,728, according to a preliminary report by the Ministry of Health, L...

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March 8, 2023   A solution to the issue of wartime Korean workers in Japan, announced by South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol government on March 6, can be regarded as a temporary measure to avoid the worst ...

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March 6, 2023   South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol positioned Japan as a “partner” in his address at a ceremony on March 1 to commemorate the March 1 Independence Movement against Japanese rule. B...

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March 6, 2023   Russian forces have made missile attacks on power stations and transmission lines in Ukraine almost daily this winter, continuing to destroy Ukrainian electricity infrastructure. Jap...

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March 6, 2023   The raison d'etre of Japan’s House of Councilors is fundamentally called into question as Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi was absent from a meeting of Group of 20 foreign minister...

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February 27, 2023   Military tensions over nuclear weapons are rapidly growing on the Korean Peninsula, although such tensions are scarcely reported in Japan. As North Korea continues military drill...

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