The two headlines carrying a message that implicitly criticized President Xi Jinping’s tight media control appeared on the front page of the Shenzhen edition of Southern Metropolis Daily ...

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  On the 7th of March, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women held a discussion on the Comfort Women issue in Geneva. The committee submitted a report expressing its reg...

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  How is the U.S. Presidential election shaping up? We asked radio personality and CEO of a major marketing consultancy firm, Bob Newman, about Donald Trump’s popularity, where the election...

  The Bank of Japan (the central bank) recently introduced negative interest rate policy; but what is negative interest rate policy? And what will happen if the Bank of Japan does not abolish it?...

On the morning of January 7th, North Korea fired a de facto, long-range, ballistic missile southward from the west coast of the country. The launch came on the heels of the testing of a hydrogen bomb ...

  There is no country in the world other than Japan that is more surrounded by nuclear weapon states, but at the same time, is utterly defenseless against such weapons. North Korea has conducted ...

  Recently, the Bank of Japan introduced negative interest rates, becoming the nation’s first monetary policy. Master Ryuho Okawa, founder of Happy Science, commented on this in his lecture...

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