Japan
Japan v China — the history of a rivalry
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the centuries-old military rivalry between China and Japan
Pandemic Olympiad
The Tokyo games will be an uncomfortable charade
A fanatic heart
On the 50th anniversary of his public suicide, Nigel Jones reflects on the strange life and bizarre death of the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima
The man who restored Japan
Shinzo Abe has led Japan to overcome its war guilt and emerge as a major global power
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
