Off with her head: Xi Jinping’s government has expressed the president’s displeasure with new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for acting similarly to her predecessors in regard to Taiwan relations. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Yusuke Hinata and Yuji Murakami) China up close No honeymoon for Xi Jinping and Sanae Takaichi after their first summit KATSUJI…
Peter McGraw is a bachelor, behavioral economist and business professor who studies how single living is transforming consumer behavior. Here’s why he thinks Singles’ Day could catch on in the U.S. Josh Willink/Pexels On November 11 each year, a curious holiday takes over China. What began among Nanjing University students in the 1990s as a tongue-in-cheek…
Welcome to a jam-packed Week 9 for this fashion-oriented file. Below, we’ve got our regular weekly tunnel top five, some midseason awards and some Halloween favorites from each of our panelists. A NOTE ON METHODOLOGY: Each week, a six-member panel — including former players Terron Armstead and Jason McCourty, NFL Network host Jamie Erdahl, celebrity…
Chicago Bears cornerback Kyler Gordon got the most points in a given week of any player this season, proving king in our Week 7 installment of The Fit Files: NFL’s Five Best-Dressed. This week’s contest was, by contrast, much closer, with some of the league’s biggest stars at QB, WR and RB vying for the…
Quarterbacks Justin Fields and Jayden Daniels took center stage in our Week 6 installment of The Fit Files: NFL’s Five Best-Dressed. Two more QBs made the cut this week — but they were ultimately outpaced by a flashy defensive back who totaled more single-week votes than any other player this season. Before we dig in,…
The competitive fixture set for December is immensely controversial in Europe, but the view in the U.S. is one of inevitability Most of La Liga spent last weekend protesting. Routinely, in each game, the referee blew his whistle to signify the start of the contest. And for exactly 15 seconds, in every single fixture, the players…
In the Week 4 edition of The Fit Files: NFL’s Five Best-Dressed, Micah Parsons and Patrick Surtain II were the stars of the NFL tunnel runway, drawing a round of applause with their cool, elevated white fits. This week, the offensive-skill guys brought the heat, led by two elite wide receivers who are considered among…
Mic’d Up: Villa talks Barcelona, the Spanish national team and why Barcelona’s Yamal will win a Ballon d’Or David Villa knows the pressure of the Champions League. After all, he has played in the famed tournament for four different Spanish clubs. He has won it once, and experienced the agony, too, of losing a final….
In our debut installment of The Fit Files: NFL’s Five Best-Dressed last week, we ended up with a tie that illustrated how fashion can make everybody look good. This week, quarterbacks and wide receivers stole the show, claiming all five spots below, with the top slot going to a veteran QB who has made a…
As Xi Jinping ‘s Chinese Communist Party stakes its prestige on an upcoming military parade, leaders in Tokyo and Seoul are growing more cooperative, much to China’s chagrin. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters, Yusuke Hinata and pool) China up close Lee Jae Myung has yet to RSVP to Xi Jinping’s military parade invitation KATSUJI NAKAZAWA August…