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France Student Protests Continue in Earnest (5,000 Arrested Last Week) Kanako Mita, Sawako Utsumi, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times President Emmanuel Macron of France was first elected in…
France Under Macron: Debt, Political Dysfunction, and the Crisis of Centralized Power Hiroshi Saito, Michiyo Tanabe, and Chika Mori Modern Tokyo Times When Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France…
Russia’s Border Security Belt: Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk (Ukraine Conflict) Kanako Mita, Sawako Utsumi, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Russian President Vladimir Putin’s policy of establishing a security…
Iceland Rejects to Re-Open EU Membership Talks (EU Disappointed) Michiyo Tanabe, Chika Mori, and Sawako Uchida Modern Tokyo Times The people of Iceland have rejected the reopening of European Union…
Islamist Terrorist Attack at Berlin LGBTQ Event Kanako Mita, Sawako Utsumi, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Germany is once again reeling from a brutal Islamist terrorist attack, carried…
Ukraine and NATO Encouragement of Bombing Deeper into Russia (Possible Blowback) Kanako Mita, Sawako Utsumi, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation…
Russia to Redirect LNG Gas from Europe to Asia Kanako Mita, Sawako Uchida, and Sawako Utsumi Modern Tokyo Times The Russian Federation is increasingly weary of persistent restrictions on LNG…
Germany is Anti-Russia to an Extreme under Merz Kanako Mita, Sawako Utsumi, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, much like his predecessor Olaf Scholz,…