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Japan’s exports rebound in September as Asia demand offsets U.S. decline
TOKYO (Realist English). Japan’s exports rose 4.2% year on year in September, ending a four-month slump as stronger demand from...
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 holds off on recognizing Palestinian state amid U.S. pressure and Israeli concerns
TOKYO (Realist English). Japan will not recognize a Palestinian state for now, likely in deference to the United States and...
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,...
Elliott takes top-three stake in Kansai Electric, presses for asset sales and shareholder returns
TOKYO (Realist English). U.S. activist fund Elliott Management has become one of the top three shareholders in Kansai Electric Power,...
Japan secures landmark frigate deal with Australia, advancing ambitions as global arms exporter
TOKYO (Realist English). Japan has taken a major step toward becoming a significant player in the global arms market after...
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy wins $6.5bn Australian frigate deal in landmark naval export
TOKYO (Realist English). Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has been named Australia’s preferred bidder to build up to 11 general-purpose frigates,...
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...
Is Iran’s survival not a victory? Tehran under US and Israeli pressure
TEL AVIV (Realist English). For decades, Iran defined victory in expansive terms: exporting revolution, rolling back US influence, and ultimately eliminating...
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...
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