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South Korea's benchmark Kospi index of shares and the Kosdaq are seen down on Tuesday as investors fretted about the turmoil in the Middle East.

COMMENTARY / World

Why the Iran war morphed into panic selling in Asia

By Shuli Ren

The selloff may have come as somewhat of a surprise for investors. North Asia is known for its dependence on oil and natural gas imports.

The war with Iran marks the emergence of a deeply integrated U.S.-Israel warfighting alliance — forged over decades and now on full display.

COMMENTARY / World

Israel has become America's not-so-secret weapon

By Hal Brands

Contrary to the common misconception, the U.S. and Israel haven’t always been so tight.

A punting boat passes the King's College Chapel at the University of Cambridge, England, where John Maynard Keynes studied. He predicted that advances like AI could one day free people from material necessity, leaving humanity to face the “permanent problem” of how to live well.

COMMENTARY / World

AI is proving a 100-year-old prediction true

By Adrian Wooldridge

Keynes’ work on the problem of leisure has not been treated with the same reverence as his work on solving the problem of the great depression.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei speaks at an AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. 19. The dispute between the U.S. Department of Defense and Anthropic highlights a widening conflict over military AI use and government power over private firms.

Pentagon’s fight with Anthropic is anything but intelligent

On Thursday, Anthropic rejected the Pentagon’s demands that it agree to grant unrestricted use of its technology by the military by Friday, according to reports.

EDITORIALS

Takaichi’s next challenge: a stronger yen

EDITORIALS

After another historic victory, Takaichi takes command

EDITORIALS

Takaichi and the LDP appear poised for a big win

EDITORIALS

We must hold America to a much higher standard

Chow Hang-tung speaks to the media outside Tin Shui Wai Police Station in Hong Kong in March 2021 over activists then being held by the authorities. She now faces an incitement to subversion charge over her role in commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

World

Hong Kong’s democracy fight is also a battle for women’s freedom

By Frances Hui

Despite gendered repression, smear campaigns and imprisonment by Beijing authorities, women in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement continue to lead and resist.

World

Regimes come and go. China’s interests in Iran will endure.

By Karishma Vaswani

World

AI is proving a 100-year-old prediction true

By Adrian Wooldridge

World

Israel has become America's not-so-secret weapon

By Hal Brands

World

Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei and his deadly legacy

By Pegah Banihashemi

World

The limits of Japan’s immigration charade

By Midori Inagaki

Japan

A win — and a lesson — from Toyota’s Elliott deal

By Juliana Liu

Japan

Canada has an opportunity to redefine its role in the Pacific

By Stephen R. Nagy

Japan

SoftBank’s Ohio power plant delivers an AI sticker shock

By Liam Denning

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

As Japan accelerates AI adoption, policymakers and corporations frame the technology as essential to offsetting a projected labor shortfall of 11 million workers by 2040.

Japan is betting big on AI. Few workers have used it.

By Eric Margolis

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