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When a supply shock hits a product for which there’s no alternative — toilet paper during COVID-19, for instance — there’s not much people can do except deal with it. If a ready substitute is waiting in the wings, the outcome can be mass defection. [1]

Crime plummeted in the U.S. in 2025 after a steady but less-precipitous decline in 2024. [2]

The two main drivers of U.S. economic growth right now — artificial intelligence and an aging population — are combining to make health care the most appealing career option for job seekers. [3]

Energy systems across ASEAN+3 (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, plus China, Japan and South Korea) are under increasing strain. Climate shocks are threatening infrastructure and supply. [4]

For decades, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have exported oil and recycled petrodollars through Western markets and received military protection from the United States. This arrangement has often been described as a strategic alliance. [5]

Take a moment to digest the following, quite extraordinary sequence of events. Earlier this month, U.S. officials leaked to the Washington Post that Russia had been giving Iran target data to strike U.S. military assets in the Persian Gulf. [6]

Through five internationally acclaimed, best-selling books, Len Deighton never named his protagonist. [7]

Less than a month into the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and restaurants in India have switched to burning wood and limiting menu options, citing a shortage of cooking gas. Households are also facing longer wait times for LPG cylinder deliveries. [8]

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[1] MM www.japantimes.co.jp · 2026-03-26 · 65% match

The oil shock is accelerating Asia's EV revolution

When a supply shock hits a product for which there’s no alternative — toilet paper during COVID-19, for instance — there’s not much people can do except deal with it. If a ready substitute is waiting in the wings, the outcome can be mass defection.

[2] MM www.japantimes.co.jp · 2026-03-25 · 65% match

Are video games and phones helping to reduce crime?

Crime plummeted in the U.S. in 2025 after a steady but less-precipitous decline in 2024.

[3] MM www.japantimes.co.jp · 2026-03-25 · 65% match

Health care can’t be the only job in town — but it is

The two main drivers of U.S. economic growth right now — artificial intelligence and an aging population — are combining to make health care the most appealing career option for job seekers.

[4] MM www.japantimes.co.jp · 2026-03-24 · 65% match

Building the energy resilience ASEAN+3 needs

Energy systems across ASEAN+3 (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, plus China, Japan and South Korea) are under increasing strain. Climate shocks are threatening infrastructure and supply.

[5] MM www.japantimes.co.jp · 2026-03-24 · 65% match

Iran conflict reveals cracks in U.S.-backed deterrence

For decades, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have exported oil and recycled petrodollars through Western markets and received military protection from the United States. This arrangement has often been described as a strategic alliance.

[6] MM www.japantimes.co.jp · 2026-03-24 · 65% match

We’re all trapped in Trump’s 1980s worldview

Take a moment to digest the following, quite extraordinary sequence of events. Earlier this month, U.S. officials leaked to the Washington Post that Russia had been giving Iran target data to strike U.S. military assets in the Persian Gulf.

[7] MM www.japantimes.co.jp · 2026-03-24 · 65% match

Six decades ago, Len Deighton created a man for our times

Through five internationally acclaimed, best-selling books, Len Deighton never named his protagonist.

[8] MM www.japantimes.co.jp · 2026-03-22 · 65% match

Threats abound to India’s traditional geopolitical role

Less than a month into the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and restaurants in India have switched to burning wood and limiting menu options, citing a shortage of cooking gas. Households are also facing longer wait times for LPG cylinder deliveries.

[9] MM www.japantimes.co.jp · 2026-03-17 · 65% match

Ohtani and Yamamoto ready to rejoin Dodgers rotation

One spring training appearance is all the Los Angeles Dodgers have witnessed of Shohei Ohtani's ramp-up for the start of the regular season next week.

[10] MM www.japantimes.co.jp · 2025-12-12 · 65% match

Fan group calls for 'immediate halt' to World Cup ticket sales over costs

Fan group Football Supporters Europe (FSE) on Thursday called for FIFA to stop the sale of tickets for next year's World Cup due to their "extortionate" cost.

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