World
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...
December 10, 2015
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe established 3 new pillars and set the aim for Japan’s GDP to 600 trillion yen. It is estimated that it will be achieved in around 2020. In 2014, Japan’s GD...
December 8, 2015
World War II brought to light the fundamental disconnect between the East and the West. Distrust, disparate goals, basic philosophic, economic and racial barriers stood in the way of constructi...
December 5, 2015
Since Mr. Malcolm Turnbull became Australia’s new prime minister in September of this year, China has been rapidly spreading its tentacles to Australia. Mr. Turnbull has been drawing crit...
December 3, 2015
A Syrian passport left at one scene of the Paris attacks led to a new possibility that the terrorists entered the country as Syrian refugees. The passport was discovered near the body of the su...
December 1, 2015
The Question: Q. As a Japanese person, I think we ought to embrace both tolerance to accept a multitude a different values, while having the strength to explicitly state things when needed. Ple...
November 24, 2015
China has recently decided to scrap its one-child policy to halt the rapid aging of the population and the declining birth rate, allowing all married couples to have two children. It is wrong t...