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President Biden has told key allies that he knows the coming days are crucial and understands that he may not be able to salvage his candidacy if he cannot convince voters that he is up to the job after a disastrous debate performance last week. According to two allies who have spoken with him, Mr. Biden has emphasized that he is still deeply committed to the fight for re-election but understands
Opinion | America Betrays Its Children Again
I’ve been writing about economics and politics for many years, and have learned to keep my temper. Politicians and policymakers often make decisions that are simply cruel; they also often make decisions that are stupid, damaging the national interest for no good reason. And all too often they make decisions that are both cruel and stupid. Flying into a rage every time that happens would be exhaust
A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean?
His pronouncements could hardly sound more drastic. In interviews and public appearances, Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale, has taken on the question of how to deal with the burdens of Japan’s rapidly aging society. “I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” he said during one online news program in late 2021. “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of
Shinzo Abe Shot: Shinzo Abe of Japan Dies After Being Shot During Speech (Published 2022)
SEOUL — Though the current South Korean president, Yoon Suk-yeol, has vowed to mend ties with Japan, the two countries have had a history of icy relations, especially under Mr. Abe. Mr. Yoon sent a telegram to Mr. Abe’s wife on Friday, expressing his “condolences and sympathy to the bereaved family and the people of Japan over the loss of its longest-serving former prime minister and a respected p
The New York Times Buys Wordle (Published 2022)
The sudden hit Wordle, in which once a day players get six chances to guess a five-letter word, has been acquired by The New York Times Company. The purchase, announced by The Times on Monday, reflects the growing importance of games, like crosswords and Spelling Bee, in the company’s quest to increase digital subscriptions to 10 million by 2025. Wordle was acquired from its creator, Josh Wardle,
The Woman Who Made van Gogh (Published 2021)
In 1885, a 22-year-old Dutch woman named Johanna Bonger met Theo van Gogh, the younger brother of the artist, who was then making a name for himself as an art dealer in Paris. History knows Theo as the steadier of the van Gogh brothers, the archetypal emotional anchor, who selflessly managed Vincent’s erratic path through life, but he had his share of impetuosity. He asked her to marry him after o
Tokyo Olympics Chief Apologizes for Remarks Demeaning Women (Published 2021)
TOKYO — Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics, already facing rising costs and significant public opposition to this summer’s Games, faced a new furor on Wednesday after the president of the Tokyo organizing committee suggested women talk too much in meetings. The president, Yoshiro Mori, stoked a social media backlash after news reports emerged of his comments demeaning women during an executive meeti
How Chinese Sci-Fi Conquered America (Published 2019)
In the fall of 2012, Ken Liu received an intriguing offer from a Chinese company with a blandly bureaucratic name: China Educational Publications Import and Export Corporation, Ltd. It was seeking an English-language translator for a trippy science-fiction novel titled “The Three-Body Problem.” Liu — an American computer programmer turned corporate lawyer turned science-fiction writer — was a natu
The Exhibit Lauded Freedom of Expression. It Was Silenced. (Published 2019)
The exhibition that was closed at the Aichi Triennale in Nagoya, Japan, included a statue symbolizing women forced into sexual slavery during World War II.Credit...The Yomiuri Shimbun, via Associated Press Images TOKYO — It was an exhibit meant to celebrate freedom of expression. Instead, freedom of expression was shut down. A long, bitter battle between Japan and South Korea over historical memor
Japan Fire Killed Mostly Women, at a Studio Known for Hiring Them (Published 2019)
Smoke and flames rose from the Kyoto Animation building in Kyoto, Japan, on Thursday.Credit...Kyodo/Reuters KYOTO, Japan — He can’t get the women out of his mind. A day after an apparent arson killed at least 34 people at an animation studio in the Japanese city of Kyoto, a neighbor, the 81-year-old Ken Okumura, remembered seeing several women jump from the building’s second floor. They were so ba
日本のワーキングマザー 妻の過大な負担・夫の過少な支援 (Published 2019)
東京 — ニシマサヨシコさんの書類作業は、いくらやっても終らない。 彼女は、毎日こと細かに記録をつけなければならず、それ以外にも注意深くチェックし、押印しなくてはならない書類をたくさん抱えている。日々の会話、行動、食事の内容までもすべて記録するのだ。 これらの作業のうち、マーケティングのプロである彼女の仕事のためのものはひとつもない。すべて、子供たちの保育園に必要な書類で、彼女が出社前に片付けるものなのだ。 38歳のニシマサさんは、日本のほかの多くのワーキングマザーと同様に、仕事とは無関係の、しかし骨の折れる事務的作業を山ほど抱えている。このような作業は、彼女の働く機会を制限している。今、日本は、彼女のような女性にもっと働いてもらう必要があると、唱えているのにも関わらず、だ。 安倍晋三首相は、「ウィメノミクス」というキャッチフレーズの女性活躍推進戦略を提唱し、停滞する日本経済を活性化させ
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