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 in a laboratory. The study, led by Japanese professors Atsuki Tanaka and Takayuki Miyazawa of Osaka Medical University and Kyoto University, sought to trace the historical evolution of the omicron variant […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 6, 2023 A wide swath of Asian security issues was discussed and deliberated upon during the recent UN General debate. Predictably, China and Korea dominated concerns though other concerns such as the South China Sea were largely overlooked. Speaking at the start of the 78th Assembly, President […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2023 Tokyo is set to unveil new economic security and industrial policy guidelines said to include measures to prevent economic coercion, support for countries that have been subject to such acts, and trade restrictions like increased tariffs on the offenders. The government of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida did not mention […]
FPI / September 6, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Aug. 31 Japan’s Ministry of Defense requested a record budget of $59.9 billion for the fiscal budget year that begins on April 1, 2024. It is part of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio’s five-year $295 billion defense spending plan that will exceed Japan’s 1 percent of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 20, 2023 An unprecedented trilateral summit at Camp David between South Korea, Japan, and the United States countered the successful divide-and-conquer tactics used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to expand its military’s regional power in what CCP leaders call the post-U.S. era. A concluding joint statement laying the groundwork for […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 17, 2023 Four commercial airline pilots have collapsed suddenly during flights in the past two weeks, reports say. Two of them died. A fifth pilot collapsed at the boarding gate and later died. Numerous other incidents involving pilots were reported earlier this year. On Aug. 13, a LATAM airlines pilot collapsed […]
Special to WorldTribune, July 7, 2023 By Tetsuhide Yamaoka Thanks to bad behavior on the part of America’s ambassador, a 70-year-old racket in U.S.-Japanese politics is now being exposed. In the words of a senior legislator, leading Liberal Democrats have “decided the issue by force” and have “left a mark on the democratic management of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 30, 2023 The State Visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Washington illustrated both style and substance of the evolving relationship between the world’s two largest democracies. President Joe Biden described the India/American relationship as, “A partnership that is among the most consequential in the world, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 18, 2023 Leftists in the Biden administration, via Ambassador Rahm Emanuel, have been ramming American wokeness down the throats of Japan’s citizens since January 2021. Team Biden and Emanuel put enormous pressure on Japan to pass an LGBTQ rights bill before the G7 summit, which Tokyo will host from May 19 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 10, 2023 In his recently released best seller “When China Attacks: A Warning to America“, retired Col. Grant Newsham blames American elites for losing a war with Communist China that most Americans did not know was happening. “These fools built up the PRC economy and military into a force that could […]
