Philip Patrick

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  • Dec 3, 2024
    In a dramatic and unnanounced move, South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Tuesday in a live broadcast on YTN television. Yoon did not specify exactly...
  • Nov 20, 2024
    It’s a reasonable bet that if Jeremy Clarkson stood for prime minister tomorrow, he’d win by a country mile. Some might even crown him the next sovereign. At the...
  • Sep 27, 2024
    The 67-year-old Shigeru Ishiba will become Japan’s new prime minister on 1 October after winning a surprisingly exciting play-off vote against his rival Sanae Takaichi. 
  • Aug 5, 2024
    It is, to use Trumpian language, a bloodbath. The Tokyo stock market has plunged 12.4% today, compounding the misery of last Friday when Tokyo’s financial markets suffered...
  • Apr 12, 2024
    Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a Biden-esque slip in a press conference at the White House this week. He referred to China as Japan’s ally before quickly...
  • Apr 6, 2024
    Finally, eight months after its US premiere and a month after it triumphed at the Oscars, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has opened here in Japan. The film had been...