Analysts: U.S. cannot afford to continue deemphasizing Northeast Asia

Analysts: U.S. cannot afford to continue deemphasizing Northeast Asia

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 […]

A Marine officer’s advice for the next U.S. ambassador to Japan

A Marine officer’s advice for the next U.S. ambassador to Japan

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 […]

Analyst: Only Trump stands in way of Xi’s brutal plans for South Korea, Japan

Analyst: Only Trump stands in way of Xi’s brutal plans for South Korea, Japan

FPI / February 5, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s lofty ambition of world dominance begins with aligning the stars in the East Asia galaxy. That goal is well within reach, an analyst said. In South Korea, “pro-North Korea and pro-China (and anti-American) leftists are aiming to establish a one-party state,” Grant Newsham […]

Day one: Donald Trump’s compromised foreign policy inheritance

Day one: Donald Trump’s compromised foreign policy inheritance

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, January 20, 2025 A series of widening wars, growing humanitarian crises and simmering foreign conflicts are among the list of foreign policy/security woes confronting President Donald Trump. From day one of his administration the president must assess and prioritize U.S. policy interests in key regions both on the […]

Huh? Japan defeats U.S. team in World Junior Football Championship

Huh? Japan defeats U.S. team in World Junior Football Championship

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, June 28, 2024 Contract With Our Readers OK, this is American football, not soccer. On Wednesday, a team of Japanese boys beat the American team in the IFAF U20 World Junior Football Championships semifinals. The score was 41-20. “How in the world does any country put together a team that hits […]

New study: Excess deaths in Japan skyrocketed after 3rd Covid shot

New study: Excess deaths in Japan skyrocketed after 3rd Covid shot

by WorldTribune Staff, April 26, 2024 Using a dataset of Japan’s entire 123 million population, five Japanese scientists found a shocking number of excess cancer deaths coinciding with the mass distribution of the third Covid injection. In the study, titled “Increased Age-Adjusted Cancer Mortality“, the scientists found there were 1,568,961 total deaths in Japan in […]

An unusually direct message to Congress from Japan’s PM: ‘All hands on deck’

An unusually direct message to Congress from Japan’s PM: ‘All hands on deck’

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 18, 2024 It’s not often an American ally and partner addresses the U.S. Congress; but when they do, it’s time to listen. That was certainly the case when Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida spoke before a joint session of Congress in Washington to both thank America for […]

Japanese researchers warn against blood transfusions from Covid injection recipients

Japanese researchers warn against blood transfusions from Covid injection recipients

by WorldTribune Staff, March 20, 2024 Researchers in Japan are warning about the risks associated with blood transfusions from individuals who have received Covid mRNA shots. In a March 14 preprint, the authors noted: “The impact of these genetic vaccines on blood products and the actual damage caused by them are unknown at present. Therefore, […]

North Korea is now in a league of its own for missile proliferation

North Korea is now in a league of its own for missile proliferation

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, December 24, 2023 There they go again! North Korea’s reclusive communist regime ended the year with a provocative intercontinental ballistic launch, flying near Japan and splashing down in the Pacific. The ominous firing of a powerful Hwasong-18 rocket came a month after Pyongyang put a spy satellite into […]

GREATEST HITS, 17: Japan researchers: All Covid variants were created in lab

GREATEST HITS, 17: Japan researchers: All Covid variants were created in lab

CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Top stories of 2023, December 18, 2023 Thank you for your support for WorldTribune, Window on the Real World. Have a great 2024! — The Editors by WorldTribune Staff, October 9, 2023 Japanese researchers have found that all variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid, were in fact made […]