ニュース速報 Peru Replaces Its President Again: Why I Cannot Stop Thinking About the Nikkei Communities
Peru votes tonight for its ninth president in a decadeApril 12, 2026. On a Sunday across a country stretching along Sout...
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ニュース分析 Hungary’s Election Day: Will Orban’s 16-Year Grip on Power Survive the Ballot?
Today, April 12, Hungary faces the ballot boxFor sixteen years, Viktor Orban has held the reins of power since 2010, and...
Middle East The Strait of Hormuz Is Open Again. I Cannot Simply Feel Relieved.
The Strait of Hormuz reopened on April 8, 2026, after 39 days of closure. The United States and Iran reached a two-week ...
ニュース分析 Finally at the Table, Yet So Far Apart: What Pakistan’s Back-Channel US-Iran Talks Reveal About Trust in the Middle East
Pakistan becomes the unlikely conduitOver the past few days, a small diplomatic news item tucked away in the margins of ...
経済 Aluminum Is Quietly Breaking. This Is an Industrial Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight.
Aluminum is quietly breaking. UBS has raised its 2026 aluminum price forecast by roughly thirteen percent, to about thre...
エネルギー A Ceasefire on Paper, a Blockade in Practice: What Are We Supposed to Make of This?
A ceasefire on paper, a blockade at sea. A few days ago CNN reported that the Trump administration and Iran had agreed o...
Global Affairs A Vessel Capsized off Henoko: The Base Problem’s Distortions and Japan’s Unfinished Homework
The news of the capsizing hit me harder than I expectedWhen I first saw the report that a construction work vessel had c...
テクノロジー The Day Musk’s X Turned On Auto Translation: I Thought of the Tower of Babel
My first reaction was to pause, not to celebrateWhen I read that X had rolled out AI powered auto translation across eve...
経済 Why Tokyo Disney Became the Most Distinctive Magic Kingdom in the World, From My Comparison of Every Resort
I wanted to put the global Disney picture in orderWhile looking at fresh crowd data for Tokyo Disney Resort, I felt an u...
Europe Europe Is Seriously Rearming. What Does It Mean for Japan?
Europe is arming itself — and this time, it looks like the real thing. By 2026, European defense spending has reached levels not seen since the Cold War. Germany has amended its constitution to unlock up to 500 billion euros for defense and infrastructure investment.