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Closing the Culture Gap: Can Anime Songs Boost the Recognition of J-Pop in the U.S.?
Photo Credit: COMIX WAVE FILMS INC By Zerui PanStaff Writer The absence of Japanese pop music in U.S. mainstream culture is an enduring phenomenon too conspicuous to overlook. As Japan became an economic superpower in the 1990s, the Japanese music industry also grew, becoming the second largest in the world. Its influence, however, was largely […]
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Op-Ed: Fentanyl as a WMD
Photo Credit: Province of British Columbia By Yan GrafStaff Writer In April 2021, as the United States was focused on dealing with the Delta wave of COVID-19, a drug advocacy group calling themselves “Families against Fentanyl” quietly submitted a letter to President Joe Biden with one demand: to label fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, a […]
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The Long Game: Why Protraction Continues to Underpin Moscow’s Strategy to Reclaim Ukraine
Photo Credit: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine By Shawn RostkerEditor in Chief Conditions were cloudy with a chance of showers as the sun rose over Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, on Thursday, February 24. The literal fog of war had set in across the nation of roughly 43 million people, and for residents in and around the […]