Asia Editor @thetimes. Author IN THE GREEN HEART (Aug), GHOSTS OF THE TSUNAMI, PEOPLE WHO EAT DARKNESS. Winner @TheWritersPrize. Agent @NatFairweather. My views
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May 30
The UK’s special relationship alliance with the United States is “meaningless” unless it matches American military capabilities, US defence secretary Pete Hegseth, has told his British counterpart, John Healey.
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Richard Lloyd Parry retweeted
The @LowyInstitute's Research Director @MihaiSora spoke with @thetimes' Richard Lloyd Parry about the "Great Game" between Australia and China in the Pacific.
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Apr 23
The difference is that one of us has an opinion, now and then, but also gets out of the office sometimes, goes to places and talks to people. Whereas the other, from all visible evidence, works exclusively via a screen, reacting, recycling, sneering, then chuhai tweeting at 1 am.
I see you also like Having an Opinion, the difference is my opinions aren’t advocating for things I reported as fact two months earlier
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Apr 23
That's fine, of course - carry on attitudinising. But don't confuse it with journalism.
(Call me Nostradamus, but I prophesy that you're going to respond with something about .... the Olympics!)
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Apr 21
Since you ask, always (1) read the headline, to the end; (2) read the piece, to the end.
This will put you in the perfect position to Have An Opinion. (I can tell how much you like having those.)
I wonder how far into this article I needed to read to discover that Japan had not, in fact, cancelled the Tokyo Olympics
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3) Address the person you’re sneering at. Apart from being the decent, non-sneaky thing to do, it allows people to Engage. (Not sure how keen you are on that bit. This has been fun, though - hasn’t it?)
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Apr 13
“This island has been under outside influence. It’s expressed in the old songs, which are so sad compared to the mainland. Knowing that what they say will have no influence has always been our experience.”
My report from Japan's Yonaguni island.
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When I first started investigating the Prince Group a little over five years ago it never even crossed my mind that the story would lead anywhere near the White House. But here we are.
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The Trump family crypto business went into partnership with a company whose“flagship project” was founded by a man later sanctioned by Trump’s own government.
By @jackoozell and me in @thetimes.
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Yang Jian was allegedly part of the Prince Group, described last October by the US government as “one of the largest transnational criminal organisations in Asia”. The UK also sanctioned its members.
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Feb 21
“It was unthinkable for a woman to be head of the Tokugawa family. People would say, ‘her brother would be better’, and, ‘wouldn’t her husband be more suitable?’”
My interview in @thetimes with the woman closing down the family of the last shogun.
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Miki Yamagishi, a 57-year-old cellist from Nagoya and a descendant of the 15th and final shogun, says it is time for the family line to bow out thetimes.com/world/asia/arti…
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Feb 11
Britain believes that China would negotiate the release of the imprisoned Hong Kong newspaper owner, Jimmy Lai - but only if he agrees to be silent.
Exclusive in @thetimes by @RichardJSpencer and me.
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Feb 6
The Japanese word oshikatsu is the equivalent of the English term “stanning”, describing devoted support of a pop star or idol. In the past weeks a new term has emerged: “Sana-katsu”, or personal adoration of Sanae Takaichi.
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‘As Takichi’s idols Deep Purple wrote in her favourite song, Burn: “The woman’s flames are reaching higher/We were fools, we called her liar…”’
I’m I ntensely, almost tearfully, proud that I got a heavy metal lyric into a piece about Japanese politics…
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… although I have to admit that I nicked it from Jesper Koll.
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My video debut on @thetimes Instagram, talking about Sanae Takaichi and Sana-katsu. Ninety seconds of pure narrative and analytical brilliance, I'm sure you'll agree. Now all I need is a comb.
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Feb 4
Uncomfortable truth for all Japanese leaders: within narrow circle of policy, freedom of action is tightly constrained by stark geopolitical facts. Biggest problems are structural, functions of geography and demography, and they are grave.
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Jan 12
“For now, the focus is on proving Chris’s innocence. Next is reform of the Japanese justice system so that this never happens to anyone again.”
Gripping piece by Gavin Blair about what looks very much like another gross miscarriage of justice in Japan.
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19 Dec 2025
Princess Diana’s solicitors, Mishcon de Reya, handled a multimillion-pound property purchase for the man subsequently accused of heading up the world’s most successful organised crime group.
@thetimes exclusive by @jackoozell and me.
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