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Go Nagai with a 'Grendizer' poster
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50 years on, 'Grendizer' still stirs Arab hearts

The Arab world's connection to the cartoon series remains uniquely intimate. No other animated comic hero has achieved the same level of fame, resonance, and longevity.

Shadi Alaa Aldin 25 November 2025
Al Majalla

Japan quietly prepares itself amid China's rise

While the world discusses Beijing's ascendancy and the rivalry among great powers, Tokyo forges its own path—one dotted with patience, discipline, and strength

Ibrahim Hamidi 27 October 2025
LDP President Sanae Takaichi receives applause after she was selected as Japan's new prime minister during an extraordinary session of the lower house of parliament in Tokyo on October 21, 2025. Philip FONG / AFP

Sanae Takaichi: Japan's first female prime minister

Her task will be to balance the country's security imperatives with American expectations regarding burden-sharing, defence spending, and economic cooperation

Futoshi Matsumoto 21 October 2025
Mark Smith

80 years on, the world still has much to learn from Hiroshima

The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan by the US remain a subject of intense debate, and the world is still learning the lessons of those fateful events

Futoshi Matsumoto 06 August 2025
Cat-O'Neil

Japan’s view of the disorder gripping the world today

The bonds between Japan and the Middle East are based on trust and respect, since both seek peace and stability in the region. In these newly dangerous times, that bond is even more important.

Futoshi Matsumoto 26 May 2025
A "Seven Samurai" movie poster

At 70, ‘Seven Samurai’ is still sharp after all these years

How the newly remastered classic influenced films from "The Magnificent Seven" to "A Bug's Life"

Jordan Hoffman 11 September 2024
A still from the movie 'Perfect Days'. Alamy

'Perfect Days' shows how a quiet life can have bold ambitions

Shot in Toyko, Wim Wenders' film pays homage to Ozu and other Japanese filmmaking giants. Critics say this could be the German filmmaker's best work yet.

Samer Abou Hawwach 22 March 2024
This picture taken on April 15, 2019 shows a sumo wrestler taking part in a "honozumo," a ceremonial sumo exhibition, on the grounds of Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. AFP

Japan not in great shape as it reels from economic challenges

Japan, the third-strongest global economic power for over a decade, has been surpassed by Germany. It grapples with inflation, sluggish consumerism and demographic decline.

Abdel-Rahman Ayas 07 March 2024
This handout file picture taken on August 6,1945 by the US Army and released via the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum shows a mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb dropped by the B-29 bomber Enola Gay over the city of Hiroshima. AFP

Shadow of Hiroshima: 78th anniversary brings current nuclear climate into focus

Hiroshima and Nagasaki revealed the kind of destruction possible with nuclear warfare. While notable disarmament efforts had been made in the years thereafter, that no longer seems to be the priority.

Christopher Phillips 05 August 2023
Countries near the South China Sea will have to find a way to live with rising tensions where a breakthrough between Beijing and Washington remains unlikely. Reuters

Geopolitical tensions rise in the seas of China and Japan

Countries near the South China Sea will have to find a way to live with rising tensions where a breakthrough between Beijing and Washington remains unlikely

Khaled Hamadeh 17 July 2023
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A wounded girl lies on a hospital bed after an Israeli strike in the Syrian village of Beit Jin on 28 November 2025 killed 10 people, the deadliest Israeli attack since al-Assad's ouster in December 2024. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP
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Israeli actions in southern Syria give Iran an opening

04 December 2025

Israeli raids and bombs have served as a powerful recruiting tool for those wishing to resist Israel

Subhi Franjieh
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Business & Economy

Saudi Arabia's 2026 budget carefully boosts spending

04 December 2025

Balanced fiscal management, targeted deficit reduction, and strategic growth initiatives underpin this year's budget, with a strong emphasis on citizen partnership

Omar Harkous
Jay Torres
Politics

The evolution of Latin America’s drug cartels

04 December 2025

What began as a locally rooted trade in coca leaves and opium evolved into a transnational system of cartels that challenged governments, corrupted institutions, and destabilised countries

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra
Opinion

Ukraine peace talks: one step forward, two steps back

04 December 2025

The prospects of a breakthrough remain bleak as Putin blames Europe for sabotaging a 28-point peace plan agreed on with the US

Con Coughlin
A visitor stands next to a photograph of German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt at the German Historical Museum in Berlin on 6 May 2020. John MACDOUGALL / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

50 years on, Hannah Arendt's works resonate more than ever

01 December 2025

The renowned German-American philosopher's analyses showed how governments deploy deceit for political gain and blur the lines between truth and lies

Abdel Salam Ben Abdelali

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