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LGBTQ+ supporters and advocates for freedom of assembly cross Elizabeth Bridge during the Budapest Pride March on June 27.

COMMENTARY / Japan

What Budapest’s Pride march taught me about Japan

By Waka Ikeda

Marching is good. But the right to marry, to adopt, to be recorded as a family in the koseki would be great.

An honor guard presents the flags of Japan and the United States during a welcoming ceremony attended by then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ahead of a bilateral meeting in Tokyo in March 2021.

COMMENTARY / Japan

Long-held strategic assumptions no longer hold

By Brad Glosserman

For Japan, then, any real discussion of security must start with questions about the U.S. commitment to the region.

JL-3 intercontinental-range submarine-launched ballistic missiles are displayed during a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing last September.

China’s missile test exposes Beijing’s misdirection

Japan has called out Chinese behavior because it is threatening. That is the simple truth. Do not be distracted.

EDITORIALS

Little hope for a declining yen amid structural pressures

EDITORIALS

Indo-Pacific name change unnerves many

EDITORIALS

An absence of drama means the G7 summit was a success

EDITORIALS

China-North Korea ties: New heights and new realities

U.S. Marines and Japanese Self-Defense Force personnel take part in a joint live-fire drill as part of the annual Resolute Dragon exercises in Yufu, Oita Prefecture, on June 28.

World

Japan looks to Ukraine’s battlefield for defense blueprint

By Cory Alpert

Conflicts will be won if Japan — like many other nations, especially in the Pacific — can update its military doctrine to match the realities of modern warfare.

Japan

What Budapest’s Pride march taught me about Japan

By Waka Ikeda

Japan

Long-held strategic assumptions no longer hold

By Brad Glosserman

World

The yen’s plunge changes the case for Bank of Japan rate hikes

By Koichi Hamada

World

America’s new India doctrine: Never repeat the China mistake

By Brahma Chellaney

World

Ali Khamenei was a monster. The U.S. made him a martyr.

By Marc Champion

Japan

The weak yen is not Japan’s new strength. It is a warning.

By Kumiharu Shigehara

Japan

Takaichi wants to make Japan Inc. great again

By Gearoid Reidy

Japan

Trump just made Japan’s security dilemma more urgent

By Imran Khalid

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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

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