2026 JULY Article Listing | A Japanese Vew from America | Tato Takahama | Pacific Research Institute

The Strong Man Can No Longer Cure Loneliness -- What Jackass, Donald Trump, and Tora-san Reveal About American MasculinityThe Strong Man Can No Longer Cure Loneliness -- What Jackass, Donald Trump, and Tora-san Reveal About American Masculinity

PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE     A Japanese View from America     Tatao Takahama

Why Do Billionaires Want to Own Major Media Companies? | The Battle Over CNN’s Future and the New Age of Information Power

Who Governs After the Hero? | Andy Burnham and the Challenge of Post-Charismatic Democracy

The Strong Man Can No Longer Cure Loneliness | What Jackass, Donald Trump, and Tora-san Reveal About American Masculinity

China Did Not Win. Why Has America Lost Trust? | What Global Opinion Reveals About a Turning Point for the Superpower — and What Japan Must Do

The Foul-Smelling Plant Was a Mirror of Human Society | The 48 Hours When a Huntington Corpse Flower Captivated the World

The Paradoxes of the World’s Most Advanced Healthcare System

Why China Still Has Not Reached the World Cup: The Limits of State Power in Building Sports Culture

Is a “Japanese CIA” Necessary? |  Washington Watches Japan’s First Step Toward Becoming an Intelligence-Powered Nation

Is Dying Alone Necessarily a Tragedy? | Rethinking Human Existence Through the Lens of Mortality

The Life and Death of a Senator: What Lindsey Graham’s Passing Means for Trump’s America

Was Qatar’s $400 Million Gifted Air Force One a “Flawed Aircraft”? | The Real Battle May Be Over Sources, Not the Plane

Is Assassination Intelligence a Warning for Peace or a Spark for War? | Iran, Trump, and the New Battlefield of Information Warfare

Japan’s Greatest Diplomatic Asset Wasn’t Created by the Foreign Ministry | How Anime Built a Global Generation of Japan Fans

“The Islamic Republic of Japan” and the New Reality of American Politics ――  Why Trump’s Remarks No Longer Become Political Crises

Will the United States Abandon NATO? | The Ankara Summit and the Transformation of the Western Alliance

Trump Takes the World Cup Into the Political Arena — When Does the Display of Power Become Politics?

Democratic Primaries and the Emerging Left-Wing Challenge: A Party Without a Center of Gravity

Washington is Witnessing Quiet But Significant Divergence in U.S. Taiwan Policy

Can Shohei Ohtani Transcend Major League Baseball to Become a Global Cultural Legacy of the 21st Century? | From Babe Ruth to the Aesthetics of the Two-Way Player

From Division to Dispersion: How Local Rituals and Everyday Bonds Recast the Idea of a Fractured America

Why “Beauty Pageants Are OK, but Sports Are Not” | The Supreme Court’s “Decision Not to Draw a Final Line”