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Japan’s Domestic Policy
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...
Japan weighs expanding defense budget to include space and infrastructure projects
TOKYO (Realist English). Japan is considering a significant expansion of what qualifies as defense-related spending, potentially counting space, infrastructure, and...
Japan elects ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as first female prime minister amid shift to the right
TOKYO (Realist English). Japan’s parliament on Tuesday elected Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister, following months of...
Japan’s opposition leaders fail to agree on joint candidate as ruling party struggles to retain power
TOKYO (Realist English). Japan’s three main opposition leaders met in Tokyo on Wednesday to discuss a unified strategy for selecting...
Sanae Takaichi set to become Japan’s first female prime minister — but her policies remain staunchly conservative
TOKYO (Realist English). Sanae Takaichi, a 64-year-old conservative politician and longtime member of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), is...
Japan’s farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi set to enter LDP leadership race
TOKYO (Realist English). Japan’s Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi intends to run in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) presidential election,...
Support for Japan’s PM Ishiba plunges to new low after election defeat
TOKYO (Realist English). Public support for Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s Cabinet has dropped to 22.9%, its lowest level since...
Japan’s ruling coalition loses control of upper house, dealing fresh blow to Prime Minister Ishiba
TOKYO (Realist English). Japan’s ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has lost control of the upper house, according...
Japan drafts antitrust rules targeting Apple and Google to boost app market competition
TOKYO (Realist English). Japan’s antitrust regulator unveiled draft guidelines on Thursday for a new law designed to rein in the...
Sheaito Moussallam: Iran is the main obstacle to Greater Israel
BEIRUT (Realist English). The Middle East today is an echo of exploding bombs, diplomatic dead ends, and dozens of contradictory interpretations...
‘Capitalism is facing a crisis of legitimacy’: Larry Fink on inequality, AI and the evolution of markets
NEW YORK (Realist English). Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company with $14 trillion in assets...
Maria Nikiforova: Young people of the liberated territories are waiting for peace and justice
MOSCOW (Realist English). Maria Nikiforova, an expert on youth policy at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian...
155 billionaires vs. 150 million people: Zyuganov on the social catastrophe in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov presented the pre-election program "Victory...
UAE boosts production bypassing OPEC, but oil prices rise
MOSCOW (Realist English). Leading researcher at IMEMO RAS, Candidate of Historical Sciences Stanislav Ivanov has analysed for Realist English the possible consequences of...
Kurdish Genocide: From the Ottoman Empire to Erdoğan — a Chronicle of a Century of Terror
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Crimes against the Kurdish people have not been isolated episodes but have been carried out by successive Turkish...
Will Trump and Xi Agree on a New World Order?
BEIJING (Realist English). Relations between the United States and China in May 2026 can best be described as an “armed...
Pentagon withdraws troops from Germany: minus 5,000 soldiers in Europe and cancellation of a missile battalion
BERLIN (Realist English). On 2 May, the Pentagon officially announced the withdrawal of 5,000 US troops from Germany over the next...
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