Tag: Japan



Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visits abroad are carefully choreographed events, given their optics domestically. Perhaps, this is even more so today as general elections loom ahead and in Hiroshima, Modi was taking the stage after the crushing defeat in the Karnataka election, which was as much political for the ruling BJP as personal for Modi himself.

The Group of Seven held a de facto war summit in Hiroshima, a place that is synonymous with the horror and evil of war.

U.S. Senator Mike Lee is threatening Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida that he will put Tokyo’s security arrangements with Washington under congressional review unless an imprisoned Navy officer is released and allowed to return home by the end of the month.

Japan’s economy does not require a prophet or crystal ball to tell you what lies ahead in its very near future: that is, that Japan has become the ticking time bomb for the world economy.