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Why G7 climate leadership is on the line in Japan

Fossil fuel use could decline as soon as next year, but G7 proposals risk slowing the green transition.

The Bank of Japan’s new governor has the hardest job in economics

Ueda Kazuo faces a more extreme version of the challenge facing the UK: the end of cheap money in a…

Asia’s dangerous new arms race

Russia’s war and China’s military build-up are provoking an unprecedented change in Japan’s approach to its defence.

The global ageing crisis is becoming unignorable

As Japan’s prime minister Kishida Fumio has warned, low birth rates will revolutionise society – and it is a worldwide…

What is the meaning of North Korea’s nuclear opportunism?

With the West distracted by the war in Ukraine, Kim Jong Un may have decided now is the time to…

The assassination of Abe Shinzo

Japan’s former prime minister will be remembered as its most consequential modern leader.