Politics
January 12, 2016
2016 marks 70 years since the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE). In order to reassess its contents, the 3rd IMTFE research conference was held at Kokushikan University on...
January 7, 2016
On January 6, North Korea announced that it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, the fourth nuclear test since 2006. While the world was still scrambling to figure out exactly what this tes...
January 6, 2016
According to reports in Western media, the Chinese government, with the cooperation of Chinese social network sites (SNS), has begun ranking its citizens’ obedience much like a credit sco...
December 30, 2015
A foreign minister meeting was recently held in Seoul, South Korea over the Comfort Women Problem, consequently coming to a mutual agreement. The points of agreement were as follows: Pri...
December 26, 2015
December 8th: Beijing issued a red alert (the highest level warning) for the first time ever. The photograph shows students arriving home having left their work midway. (photo courtesy of aflo) ...
December 23, 2015
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently announced that they will accept the Chinese Yuan into the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights (SDR). Questions arise as to whether this will le...
December 20, 2015
At Princeton University, a group of Black American students occupied the President’s room, demanding that the institution erase the name of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the U.S. ...
December 18, 2015
Anastasia Lin, a 25-year-old China-born actress who is the winner of Miss World Canada 2015, was stopped in Hong Kong as she was barred from boarding a connecting flight to mainland China where...
December 16, 2015
“The reason why the ‘Laws of Justice’ is taught now is to create a ‘world we can believe in’, for we all have the right to live in such a world.” Those were the words of Founde...
December 12, 2015
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has decided to add the yuan, also known as the renminbi (RMB), to the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket of currencies. According to the IMF, the yuan wil...