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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
