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Birth Rates and the Future of Civilization April 9, 2025
Steve McCann
Societies that do not have children will die, and while many countries have gone too far down that road, America can still turn back.
Are unions for workers or just for elites? January 13, 2025
Rich Tucker
Approving the Nippon Steel deal should be one of Trump’s first acts as president.
Should historic infrastructure blueprints be for sale? December 20, 2024
Jonathan Barnes
Does a historical company like U.S. Steel have every right to sell historic documents to skyscrapers and bridges, etc., to a foreign company?
The New Marxist on the Block and His Pernicious Gospel of 'Degrowth' October 20, 2024
Janet Levy
A Japanese Marxist whose ideas are so bonkers even The Atlantic doesn't like him is making waves among young leftists here who love his greenie 'degrowth' proposals.
The War With No Official Name September 22, 2024
Anthony J. DeBlasi
What made us change from fighting communism overseas to fighting it at home?
Nuking Japan: nobody asked the enslaved April 3, 2024
Julian R. Sinclair
Absent from the discussion about the nuclear weapons used to compel Japanese surrender in 1945 is how the Koreans, Chinese, Filipinos, Vietnamese, and other Asian peoples felt about being colonially occupied by the empire.
Japan cheats death with 379 airline passengers and crew safe after fiery runway crash January 2, 2024
Monica Showalter
What are the odds that in a fiery crash like that, all passengers and crew would be evacuated safely?
Good December for Japanese baseball December 23, 2023
Silvio Canto, Jr.
Big salaries going to lots of talent from Japan. What does that mean?
Smart diplomacy: Japan steps up to help US farmers, Vietnam blocks China from flouting US trade quotas August 26, 2019
Monica Showalter
The walls are closing in on East Asia's big, powerful bully.
Tokyo crowd chants 'we love Trump' as motorcade passes May 28, 2019
Thomas Lifson
You won't be seeing this on the mainstream media TV channels.
The smiling faces of the Japan Communist Party April 16, 2017
Thomas Lifson
A mask that has been worn for decades.
Japan struggles over patriotism in education April 16, 2017
Thomas Lifson
A huge ideological controversy has erupted as Japan's schools have been permitted to teach patriotism in the name of the nation's emperor.
The vanishing Japanese April 9, 2017
Thomas Lifson
What happens when a nation stops having babies? The Japanese are now finding out.
Japan Supreme Court decision allows blanket surveillance of Muslims July 3, 2016
Thomas Lifson
Unbound by ethnic political correctness, Japan moves forward, almost the only major nation that has not been scarred by Islamic terror.
Multiculturalism triumphs, even in Japan March 24, 2015
Thomas Lifson
The reigning orthodoxy of race in enlightened circles has triumphed in just about the last place one would expect.
ISIS video of executed Japanese hostage puts conservative PM Abe on the spot January 25, 2015
Thomas Lifson
ISIS skillfully plays the Japanese media.
ISIS demands $200 million or will behead 2 Japanese hostages January 20, 2015
Thomas Lifson
Jihadi John returns.
Shocker: Japan slides into 3rd recession in 4 years November 17, 2014
Rick Moran
Massive sales tax increase and falling output lead to a triple-dip recession.
Hara kiri by yen November 3, 2014
Michael Booth
The Japanese have a tradition of ritual suicide when the path to victory has closed.
China's 'Mobile National Territory' May 19, 2014
David Archibald
Miscalculation might not lead to war because there is nothing miscalculated about what China is doing. China intends to start a war.
It looks like China is seriously worried about North Korea's nuclear warheads May 6, 2014
Thomas Lifson
Beijing signals Pyongyang it is planning for the regime to fall.
As China and Japan Prepare for War, American Forces Battle over Turf April 23, 2014
David Archibald
China and Japan are moving toward war over the Senkaku Islands. While the people who are actually going to fight that war are continuing to prepare for it, Marines are seeing off an attempt by the Army to gain a role.
Anne Frank and the Sushi Test March 8, 2014
Sidney Raphael
What, you might ask, does Anne Frank have to do with Korea?
Free Trade: O Reaps What He Sows February 8, 2014
Gary Jason
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) -- normally Obama's loyal lickspittle -- had broken ranks with the White House on free trade. There's more here than meets the eye.
China and Japan at Odds over Africa January 17, 2014
Sudhanshu Tripathi
The Asian giants on a collision course.
Think the Middle East is dangerous? Check out Northeast Asia December 26, 2013
Thomas Lifson
Northeast Asia is starting to look uncomfortably like a tinderbox, and Japan's Prime Minister Abe is playing with matches.
China Moon Landing A Military Threat December 18, 2013
Chriss Street
China may have bit off more than it can chew in its belligerence over the East China Sea.
Energy Drives Asian Military Confrontation December 3, 2013
Chriss Street
With American domestic energy costs falling Chinese manufacturers are becoming economically uncompetitive compared to the U.S. producers.
No Apologies for the Bomb August 6, 2013
Roger D. Luchs
The historical record easily justifies the atomic raids against Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Asiana Who? July 8, 2013
Thomas Lifson
I would wager that most Americans had never heard of Asiana Airlines until flight 214 crashed, and now the company has entered the national consciousness in the worst possible way.
Stomping on Jesus: The Iconoclasm of the Left April 3, 2013
Fay Voshell
The attempt to wipe out Christian symbols and to achieve the Leftist goal of the total secularization of American society continues apace even though the majority of Americans are at least nominally Christian.
Romney's Loss and Geopolitics November 8, 2012
Bill Schanefelt
After Midway, Japan's fate was sealed, as was Germany's after Stalingrad. Will Romney's defeat seal America's fate?
Would someone please remove the banana from the economy's tail pipe? May 31, 2011
Rick Moran
The economy will be a long time mending.