“Several thousand” North Korean infantry soldiers are undergoing training in Russia now and could be deployed to the front line in Ukraine by the end of this year, according to Ukrainian military intelligence official. Our latest: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
Kim Jong Un has pledged “full support” for Russia’s Putin in his fight against Ukraine. Seoul and Kyiv say he’s now doing that by sending in military personnel.
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
The Japanese grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki received the prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons, the Nobel committee said.
Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize for literature for “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” She is the first writer from South Korea to be awarded the literature prize. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...
The Swedish Academy honored the South Korean writer for her “intense prose.”
Requested my absentee ballot so I can vote from abroad. Excited to exercise my civic duty from Asia 💪 one more month-ish until the election...
Breaking news: Donald Trump secretly sent coronavirus tests to Vladimir Putin during 2020 shortage, a new Bob Woodward book says.
“War,” by Bob Woodward, traces how Trump and Biden responded to international crisis and concludes that Trump is worse than Nixon, the president exiled by the Watergate scandal.
“Westerners always overlook Japan when they talk about democratic backsliding,” (…) “But Japan is also a serious case in which you can question whether it’s a real democracy at this point, in any meaningful sense.” #Japan#politics#democracy#activecitizenship
A new prime minister from Japan's Liberal Democratic Party officially takes office on Tuesday. The party has governed Japan for all but four of the past 69 years, leading some to ask whether its parliament is truly representative. Our latest: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...
The Liberal Democratic Party has ruled Japan for all but four of the past 69 years, leading some to ask whether its parliament is truly representative.
A new prime minister from Japan's Liberal Democratic Party officially takes office on Tuesday. The party has governed Japan for all but four of the past 69 years, leading some to ask whether its parliament is truly representative. Our latest: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...
The Liberal Democratic Party has ruled Japan for all but four of the past 69 years, leading some to ask whether its parliament is truly representative.
What a nail-biter!! Ishiba won in the runoff round, by just 21 votes out of 415 cast. Meet Japan's new prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...
Ishiba, who wants an “Asian NATO” to counter security threats from China and North Korea, is the Liberal Democratic Party’s new leader, replacing Fumio Kishida.
Yep... we're in round 2 runoff voting now between Takaichi and Ishiba. Will Japan get its first female prime minister after all?
It's prime minister selection day here in Japan. And it is an unusually tight race! Voting has begun at 1pm local -- here are the 9 candidates in the running and the 3 frontrunners: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...
Whoever the Liberal Democratic Party chooses, they will have to handle graft, the economy — and maybe Donald Trump. Here’s what to know about the contenders.