by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2025 Real World News The shocking assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 8, 2022 two days before a national election, dealt a blow to his powerful anti-China political posture in Japan. The conservative was Japan’s longest-serving PM. Sanae Takaichi, a conservative known as Japan’s “Iron Lady,” […]
Exclusive Special to WorldTribune Robert Morton, September 30, 2025 Real World News “It was the time of the Cold War, and every corner of the earth was considered a possible battlefield,” recalled a former CIA official about his years based in the Micronesian Islands. Sheer boredom led him to inquire about inquire about Amelia Earhart. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 12, 2025 Real World News In Seoul last Friday, Charlie Kirk urged young people to have more children and embrace religion. spoke about helping bring “Trump to victory”, while addressing Build Up Korea 2025, a conservative conference that previously featured such speakers as Donald Trump Jr. “The phenomenon of young people, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 2, 2025 Real World News On Sept. 3, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will hold a massive military parade and celebration on the streets of Beijing to mark Japan’s formal surrender in World War II 49 months before the CCP took power in October 1949. Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s […]
Special to WorldTribune Robert Morton, August 6, 1978 [Forty-seven years before the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a Tokyo-based correspondent visited the family and neighbors of former journalist Yuji Yokoyama and filed this report.] HIROSHIMA, Japan — Thirty-three years ago today, this city experienced hell as it had never been experienced […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 23, 2025 Real World News President Donald Trump said his administration has completed major trade deals with Japan, the Philippines, and Indonesia. In announcing the Japan deal on Wednesday, Trump said Tokyo would pay a 15 percent reciprocal tariff rate and would invest $550 billion in the United States. The U.S. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 22, 2025 Real World News The unique legacy of the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of challenging “globalism” and the subtle but pervasive political influence of the Chinese Communist Party is alive and well in an upstart populist party which got its start on YouTube during the Covid pandemic. In […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 10, 2025 Real World News A new study presents evidence that Covid injections have a correlation to worse survival rates for patients with pancreatic cancer. After years of steady increases in the survival rate, researchers at a hospital in Japan wondered why the survival rate declined in 2022 and 2023. They […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 13, 2025 Real World News A prompt end to the war in Ukraine will allow the U.S. to shift its focus to the all-important Indo-Pacific, an analysis said. “The importance of Northeast Asia cannot be overstated,” Dane Chamorro and Col. Grant Newsham wrote for Forbes on April 10. “The collective GDP […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 3, 2025 Real World News [George Glass is likely to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Japan. The following, by Col. Grant Newsham, a retired U.S. Marine officer who served as reserve head of intelligence for Marine Forces Pacific and as the first Marine advisor to the Japan Self-Defense Force, helped […]
