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Microsoft unveils $10bn Japan AI plan, boosts local tech stocks
TOKYO (Realist English). Shares of Sakura Internet surged by more than 20% on Friday after Microsoft announced plans to invest...
US-Japan talks focus on Iran war and energy security
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sought to reaffirm Tokyo’s alliance with US President Donald Trump during talks...
Gender gap in Japanese politics remains wide, new prefectural index shows
TOKYO (Realist English). Gender equality in politics remains limited across Japan’s 47 prefectures, according to new research released Sunday that...
Japan’s exports surge 16.8% in January, outpacing forecasts
TOKYO (Realist English). Japan’s exports jumped 16.8% year on year in January, marking their fastest expansion since November 2022 and...
Takaichi’s LDP secures two-thirds supermajority in Japanese lower house election
TOKYO (Realist English). Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, has secured a two-thirds supermajority...
Japan’s largest cities lose population as demographic decline accelerates
TOKYO (Realist English). Nearly half of Japan’s 20 largest cities — each with a population exceeding 700,000 — have recorded...
Japan’s Takaichi plans snap election to strengthen fragile lower-house majority
TOKYO (Realist English). Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to dissolve the lower house of Japan’s parliament for a snap general...
Public opinion in Japan splits over future of Self-Defense Forces amid security concerns
TOKYO (Realist English). Nearly half of Japanese respondents believe the country’s Self-Defense Forces should remain at their current size and...
China protests Japan over ruling party official’s visit to Taiwan
BEIJING (Realist English). China has lodged a formal diplomatic complaint with Japan over a visit by a senior official from...
“Israel is not fighting the Iranian people, but the regime”: Alexander Tsinker on the goals of the operation against Iran
TEL AVIV (Realist English). The war in the Middle East, which began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, has entered its fifth...
Hezbollah excluded from the ceasefire: Lapshin explains why Iran agreed to the pause
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin has assessed the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, calling it a...
“Armenians are the autochthonous people of the South Caucasus”: geneticist Levon Yepiskoposyan on the Armenian gene pool and its neighbors
YEREVAN (Realist English). Levon Yepiskoposyan – Doctor of Biological Sciences, head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics at the Institute of...
“The main Russophobes are the enemies of communists”: Dmitry Novikov responds to attacks on the Communist Party
MOSCOW (Realist English). In an article published in the newspaper Soviet Russia on April 4, 2026, Deputy Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee...
China’s Game of Go without rules: How the Celestial Empire “strangles in its embrace” the countries of Latin America and expands its influence in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Doctor of Political Sciences, State Counselor of the Russian Federation First Class Tatiana Poloskova, in an authorial...
Alexander Cheryomin: Karabakh is an ancient Armenian land
MOSCOW (Realist English). If one looks at the history of Yerevan, founded in 782 BC, and studies its architectural monuments, it...
The elimination of El Mencho will not stop the drug business — the threads lead to the corridors of US power
MEXICO CITY (Realist English). Mexico has been engulfed in bloody clashes for several days. After the elimination of drug lord El...
Ceasefire with Iran will not lead to peace — “neither war nor peace” will begin
MOSCOW (Realist English). In his article for Realist English, Stanislav Ivanov, a leading researcher at IMEMO RAS and Candidate of Historical...
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