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• Japan Correspondent for @straits_times • Ex-2VP for @fccjapan (2020-2021) • Singaporean in Japan • Snapshots on IG @waltersim • RTs = interest ≠ endorsements
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Ong Ye Kung: Start at home to quell growing unease over globalisation

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By Walter Sim 
| The Straits Times
TOKYO– The growing tide of discontent over globalisation can only be allayed if governments address the everyday, bread-and-butter concerns of their citizens, Singapore’s Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said on June 11. Speaking at the 31st annual Nikkei Future of Asia Forum in Tokyo, Ong dismissed the idea that globalisation was in retreat.
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Japan overhauls post-war intelligence system amid rising security threats

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By Walter Sim 
| The Straits Times
TOKYO – Spooked by an increasingly complex threat landscape and an escalating campaign of hybrid warfare from neighbouring adversaries, Japan is shedding yet another postwar inhibition as it aims to modernise its intelligence capabilities. Weeks after it loosened restrictions on lethal weapons exports, Japan enacted what has been billed as the most drastic reforms to its national intelligence apparatus since World War II.
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‘Luxurious confinement’: The changing face of Japan’s prisons

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By Walter Sim 
| The Straits Times
– Two hours north of Tokyo, surrounded by sprawling rice fields, lies a facility that offers full-board accommodation with three meals a day, access to a 15,000-book library, and up to four hours of evening television. This is no idyllic countryside retreat, though some who pass through its gates may be increasingly compelled to treat it as one. This is Tochigi Prison, Japan’s largest female correctional facility by capacity, with 456 criminals incarcerated there as at May 21.
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