World champion boxer Naoya Inoue’s body blows land so quickly that his opponent might crumple to the canvas before the crowd even knows what hit him. But the shots of another Japanese at ringside are ...

Despite indoctrination in militaristic education during World War II, Yasuo Fukuda would go on to value the importance of diplomacy when he served as chief Cabinet secretary and then prime minister.

Yasuo Fukuda, selected by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to replace Shinzo Abe as prime minister, is an experienced, if uninspiring, consensus builder. While Fukuda's principal opponent, ...