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How Abe shaped Japan through foreign policies
Oped, Bill Emmott, Published on 13/07/2022
» Former Japanese prime minister Abe Shinzo's assassination at an election campaign event in Nara, Japan, is both shocking and puzzling. It is shocking because Japan has known almost no political violence for at least a half-century, and because gun ownership in the country is tightly controlled. It is puzzling because Abe, having stepped down as prime minister in 2020, had no formal government role; yet the killing was plainly a political act.
Why the Tokyo Olympics will go on
News, Bill Emmott, Published on 12/07/2021
» Having been postponed from last year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Tokyo Olympic Games are approaching their opening on July 23 amid a chorus of doom. Japanese and foreigners alike are predicting, or even outright demanding, the event's cancellation.