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Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama (second from left in the foreground) and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin (right in the foreground) attend the signing ceremony of the Japan-Soviet Joint Declaration in Moscow in October 1956.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 19, 2026
Tensions overshadow 70th anniversary of key Japan-Soviet declaration
In response to Japanese sanctions, Russia has suspended peace treaty talks and asserted that a territorial dispute has been settled.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei appears via video link during a U.N. Security Council meeting on artificial intelligence during the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 24, 2026
Will AI’s new ‘mutual destruction’ be assured?
U.S.-China AI competition is becoming strategically decisive and could reshape global deterrence dynamics.
U.S. President Donald Trump greets his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, on his arrival for a state visit at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 24, 2026
Trump’s retreat from U.S. allies puts Taiwan in jeopardy
The danger is that the treatment of Ukraine could lead Beijing and other governments to conclude that American commitments are negotiable.
Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong on Jun. 21. The city’s new five-year plan marks a shift toward modern industrial policy as it embraces state-led incentives to reshape its economic future.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2026
Laissez-faire Hong Kong meets the five-year plan
What Hong Kong is attempting to do is better understood as industrial policy.
A bust of the Soviet leader Josef Stalin is seen in the window of the "Vologda exile" museum in Vologda, Russia, on July 14.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 16, 2026
Russia’s Stalin-admiring provincial leader waging an ultra-conservative crusade
Ex-kickboxer Gov. Georgy Filimonov is the face of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule in the country’s Vologda region.
The headquarters of the FSB, the Russian state security service and the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, in Lubyanka Square in Moscow. Putin's modern repression of dissent increasingly echoes Stalin-era tactics.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 13, 2026
No escape from the Russian terror playbook
Putinism offers no grand vision — only the indefinite preservation of one man’s power and his security apparatus.
Posters displaying Russia's role in World War II in East Asia at an exhibition held by the de facto Russian embassy in Taipei, Taiwan, on Sept. 3.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 11, 2026
Russian screening of Soviet-era film to tiny audience in Taipei alarms Taiwan
Taipei believes Russia, in showing the documentary called “Smashing Militarist Japan,” is helping China push its “new militarism” line against Japan.
A steel sculpture of communist revolutionary Che Guevara on the side of Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior in Havana.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 7, 2026
Will Latin America embrace guerrilla geopolitics?
Latin America, in particular, should consider how to leverage its many strengths to remedy its relatively weak position on the global stage.
Police conduct an on-site inspection of a Soviet MiG-25 fighter jet at Hakodate Airport in Hokkaido, on Sept. 7, 1976. The pilot, Lt. Viktor Belenko, landed the fighter at the airport the day before to seek asylum in the United States.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 2, 2026
The Soviet defection that exposed 91AV原创 security conundrum
A Soviet pilot’s landing of a MiG-25 at Hakodate Airport was an ‘intelligence bonanza’ that also revealed gaps in 91AV原创 defenses.
On Sept. 12, 2001, the front page of The Japan Times features striking imagery of the collapsing south tower of the World Trade Center in New York, shortly after the 9/11 attacks.
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Sep 1, 2026
Japan Times 2001: Terrorists attack United States
Also in the archives, the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco and a secretive Soviet jet lands in Hokkaido.
Attendees observe a moment of silence at a memorial service for victims of the Soviet internment in Siberia, on Sunday in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward.
JAPAN
Aug 24, 2026
Detainees held in Siberia after World War II remembered in Tokyo
The memorial gathering, the 24th of its kind, was held on the 81st anniversary of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin’s secret order of internment issued on Aug. 23, 1945.
Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, the driving force behind China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, takes questions with U.S. President Bill Clinton during a joint news conference in Washington in April 1999.
EDITORIALS
Aug 14, 2026
Zhu Rongji, China’s misunderstood reformer, dies
Zhu will be remembered as the man who masterminded China’s entry into the World Trade Organization.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and others attend a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Beijing on Sept. 3.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 24, 2026
What the ‘Chinamaxxing’ crowd doesn’t get
When survival and success depend on pleasing the party boss rather than the consumer, honest innovators are weeded out.
People worship during a service held near the Washington Monument ahead of the Rededicate 250 National Jubilee event marking America’s 250th birthday in the U.S. capital on May 16.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jul 16, 2026
As shared values shift, what’s next for U.S.-Japan relations?
America under Trump is moving closer to the concerns of religious conservatives than to democracy and human rights.
Restoring democracy in Russia will require challenging Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian rule by rebuilding locally accountable governments that can deliver public services and foster political accountability.
COMMENTARY / World
May 12, 2026
Putin should be challenged to restore local democracy in Russia
Before the 1990 elections, many experts had assumed that the main effect of local democracy would be to deliver more autonomy for regions populated by ethnic minorities.
A Soviet-made T55 tank is exhibited in front of pictures of the victims of communist dictatorship at the House of Terror Museum in Budapest. The building of the museum was used by the state police until 1956 and its basement was turned into a prison.
COMMENTARY / World
May 5, 2026
What China will learn from Orban’s defeat
The lesson Mao drew from these events was that under one-party rule, an opening for dissent can easily ignite rebellion.
While Russia has not reverted to full-bore Stalinism, there is no doubt that President Vladimir Putin has made tremendous strides toward totalitarianism.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 20, 2026
How de-Stalinization may offer lessons for post-Putin Russia
This is not Stalinism yet. While thousands of dissenters have faced punishment for their “crimes” under Putin, millions rotted in Stalin’s Gulags.
U.S. allies should resist distancing themselves from Washington over Donald Trump and instead strengthen long-term economic and defense ties with the U.S. to safeguard their interests against emerging global rivals.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 16, 2026
The case for ‘hardened engagement’ with America
Allowing a distaste for one U.S. president (no matter how bombastic) to sever the ties that bind the free world is not only bad policy, it’s a recipe for strategic irrelevance.
The Trump administration is pursuing a “third way” nuclear strategy combining Western Hemisphere primacy and multilayered deterrence, with frontline allies, particularly Japan, expected to strengthen their own deterrence mechanisms.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Apr 2, 2026
Redesigning U.S.-Japan security in a ‘two-peer’ nuclear era
Frontline U.S. allies like Japan must strengthen their own denial capabilities and institutionalize trigger mechanisms for extended deterrence and ensure rapid decision-making.
Students from Okinawa Prefecture speak with Hiroshi Tokuno (left) at an exchange center for the Northern Territories issue in Nemuro, Hokkaido, on Dec. 27.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Mar 2, 2026
Okinawa students visit Hokkaido to learn about disputed islands
Over 80 years after Soviet forces seized four islands from Japan, former Japanese residents remain unable to return to their hometowns.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
Baku championships showcase rising standards in global sumo
Ryan Roddy (second from left back) is pictured with the Ireland sumo team at this month's World Sumo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.

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