James Holmes
Security, Asia
Dust it off and put it to use? One of the world's great naval minds has some ideas.
Everyone says it: Newport, as in where the U.S. Naval War College is located and where yours truly works, underwent a golden age of...
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States and Japan have reconfirmed their plans to relocate the US Marine Corps base on Okinawa to a less populated area, the US Department of State said in a press release on Friday.
What countries outside of those already-rich Anglo-Saxon settler colonies and the North Atlantic economies have "converged" or are "converging". What are the "unexpected converters:? These:
High-Income Non-North Atlantic Convergers: Japan,...
Warfare History Network
Security, Asia
An amazing story.
Wearing his dungarees, Winsett ran the 50 yards back to the ship and his battle station, a .50-caliber machine gun facing toward the bow on the starboard side. He still believed it was just...
Japanese central bankers are debating a possible downgrade in the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) economic outlook amid weak exports, sluggish domestic consumption, and rising international risks.
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Against a blood-splattered background, a brown, turbaned man is shown with his forefinger outstretched, angrily pointing, almost out of the poster and at the viewer. Upon closer examination, the gory red background reveals piles of skulls and...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump will travel to Japan on May 25-28 for holding a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the White House said in a statement
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced this evening a $1 billion investment from Japanese conglomerate SoftBank’s Vision Fund, car maker Toyota, and automative component supplier Denso. The news confirms an article from The Wall Street Journal...
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Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning,
In my 2014 book, The Death of Money, I wrote, “The United States is Japan on a larger scale.” That was five years ago.
Last week, prominent economist Mohamed A. El-Erian, formerly CEO of...
Kyle Mizokami
Security,
A tough weapon of war?
The Type 10 is an excellent overall design, but much of its early development period took place before the use of improvised explosive devices—especially those using shaped charges—became...
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If you’re thinking about celebrating 4/20 in Canada now that marijuana is legal, Lyft has your back with a $4.20 ride discount code to get you home safely.“This 4/20, we’re encouraging those taking part to plan ahead with a Lyft ride as we...
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On Wednesday, Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya said that Japan’s F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters had made seven precautionary landings before one of the fleet’s fighters disappeared from radars on April 9, 84 miles east of the Misawa...
Google hosted its 2019 ‘AMP Conf’ in Tokyo, where it announced several new changes and features coming to its Accelerated Mobile Pages project.Arguably the most important of those announcements was that AMP pages will now show the...
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When Japan enthrones a new emperor on May 1, the country’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, might be feeling a little jet lagged.Just four days before one of his nation’s most important ceremonial events in a generation, akin to the election of a new...
According to a new exclusive in Nikkei Asian Review Huawei Technologies' planned 5G roll out is a source of tension between China and Japan. Amid a general backdrop of otherwise improving relations, Japan late last year banned integration of the...
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Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Tokyo Electron Ltd. (TOELY): Free Stock Analysis Report To read this article on...
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Japan has found that soldier aphids willingly sacrifice their own lives when they attempt to protect their colony from predators. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National...
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya called on US military command to ensure discipline among US troops stationed in the country's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa after an apparent murder of a local woman by a marine, the...
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November Garcia shares some humorous advice after travelling to Tokyo, Japan.
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The OECD is urging Japan to hike its sales tax to 26 percent in place of a planned increase to 10 percent this year, despite concerns that such a dramatic move could stifle consumer activity and hurt Japan's already-fragile economic growth.
Related topics: Taxes, OECD