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On Sept. 3, 2014, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reshuffled his cabinet in a bid to recover lost popularity. After a landslide victory in the 2012 general …

NEW YORK ― The completion by Japan’s Imperial Household Agency of the 61-volume record of the life of Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989) has generated much …

Last night, I had a troubled sleep, tossing and turning, having one nightmare after another. In my dream I found myself in 2020 on the unified Korean …

In the late 1960s, U.S. Surgeon General William H. Stewart said it was “time to close the book on infectious diseases” and “declare the war against …

The gravest immediate threat to the West’s long-term security does not emanate from Vladimir Putin or from the militants of the Islamic State. Rather, …

A recent study by the National Assembly Research Service forecast South Koreans will be extinct by 2750 if the nation’s fertility rate, which declined to a …

NEW DELHI ― Democracy in Asia lately has proved to be hardier than many might have expected, with free and fair elections enabling the large and divided …

North Korea last week issued a rare report on its own human rights situation. The report rebutted international criticism of its rights record and defended the …

As Russian forces continue to make their presence felt in Ukraine, I think of the Czech student Jan Palach, who burned himself to death in a Prague square 45 …

The rise of the Islamic State in the Middle East is, to be certain, shocking to Western sensibilities and seems so sudden that it requires an equally swift and …