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The sound you hear is America’s Democrats uncorking the champagne. As much as the insane part of me wants Republican Donald Trump to be the next U.S. …

The Democratic Party of Japan marked a fresh start as the Democratic Party in the wake of a merger with the Japan Innovation Party. The DPJ lost the reins of …

It isn’t easy to be a strong leader in an era of progressives hell-bent on societal destruction. Refusing to compromise when faced with the tyranny of …

Economic sanctions have become the “silver bullet” of American foreign policy over the last decade, because they’re cheaper and more effective in …

South Korea is a small country with a big headache: North Korea. The North has lately been more intensely provocative. This week, it fired a short-range …

The Ministry of Employment and Labor has found that a quarter of the nation’s corporations still have “job inheritance arrangements” set out in their …

The government has unveiled a set of measures to improve the long-term sustainability of the seven social insurance programs that constitute the main pillars …

Jerusalem is not one city, but two. Nearly 50 years after Israel captured East Jerusalem, the city remains as divided as ever. As its neighborhoods suffer from …

Five years ago, the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster spread deadly radiation by land and by sea. In the years since, Japan and the rest of the world have …

My first exposure to democracy was when I was a student at Jaedong Elementary School. My class had to elect a president. The school was one of the earliest …