Why did South Korea’s President Yoon declare martial law?
The aftershocks of last Tuesday’s declaration, and then cancellation, of martial law by President Yoon Suk Yeol continue to be…
South Korea’s President Yoon will be lucky to escape jail
Six hours. That was the duration of the profoundly disturbing and simultaneously farcical version of martial law invoked by South…
Why has South Korea’s president declared martial law?
In a dramatic and unnanounced move, South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Tuesday in a live…
Jeremy Clarkson’s time has come
It’s a reasonable bet that if Jeremy Clarkson stood for prime minister tomorrow, he’d win by a country mile. Some…
Gary Lineker’s opinions were never welcome at the BBC
Having thought it was all over, several times, it is now – for Gary Linker as presenter of Match of the…
Kamala Harris and the death of the celebrity endorsement
Poor old Bruce Springsteen. The legendary rocker bet the farm on an endorsement of Kamala Harris and may well have…
Japan could soon lose one of its best assets
What now? This is the question on everyone’s lips here in Tokyo after a dramatic general election which looks to…
Newcastle, Saudi Arabia and desperate decline of English football
Is a major scandal over the sale of Newcastle United to a consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund…
A day of violence in Tokyo
It has been an alarming day in Tokyo as political terror returned to the streets of the capital. A man was arrested for throwing…
Does it matter that Thomas Tuchel isn’t English?
Thomas Tuchel has been confirmed as the next manager of the England national football team, to take over from the…
Wimbledon won’t be the same without line judges
It will soon be the end of an era at Wimbledon. From 2025, the All England Club has announced that…
Japan’s next prime minister is a bit of a maverick
The 67-year-old Shigeru Ishiba will become Japan’s new prime minister on 1 October after winning a surprisingly exciting play-off vote…
The tragic cost of Japan’s floods
Yet another natural disaster has struck in Japan as floods and landslides in the Noto peninsula, precipitated by ‘unprecedented’ rainfall,…
The trouble with the Champions League
The revamped Champions League kicks off this week with all the gushing hyperbole we have come to expect from this…
Hot springs have doomed Japan’s net zero ambitions
Most people know that Japan is a country cursed with considerable seismic activity; frequent, and very occasionally devastating, earthquakes and…
Why won’t the England manager sing the national anthem?
England’s interim manager Lee Carsley has intimated that he will not be singing the national anthem as his team takes…
Why are Britain’s diplomats virtue-signalling to South Korea?
An important international conference will take place this week in South Korea, focused on the peninsula’s security concerns. The UK…
Scottish Nats still haven’t worked out why they lost
Unlike a slightly more high-profile reunion event, the ticketing website for the Scottish referendum tenth anniversary show is not expected to crash.…
Shanshan may be the strongest typhoon in Japanese history
The Japanese are battening down the hatches – again – as typhoon Shanshan wreaks devastation to the south-west of the country, with…
The allure and terror of Mount Fuji
Six men have died on Japan’s iconic Mount Fuji since the start of the climbing season in July. This figure,…
Japan just can’t find the staff
‘Kanko kankai’ (tourism pollution) is the latest buzz phrase here in Japan as the double-edged samurai sword of the visitor…
How scandal brought down yet another Japanese leader
Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida has announced he will be stepping down as leader of the Liberal Democratic party next month. This…
Nagasaki shouldn’t have snubbed Israel from its A-bomb ceremony
Nagasaki’s Peace Park held a ceremony today to mark the 79th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on…
Japan’s volatile stock market is causing panic
Japan’s Nikkei 225 index registered its biggest ever daily fall on Monday, plummeting by over 12 per cent and continuing…
Japan is running out of rice
Japan is running out of rice. Stocks have fallen to their lowest levels in decades, prompting fears that emergency reserves…
