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COMMENTARY

Nov 24, 2001

German lessons for Korea

By Ronald Meinardus

SEOUL -- Koreans have come to cherish Germany's experiences, as many see this country's unification saga as an important, if not the most important, point of reference. Korea's unification will probably be more difficult and complex than Germany's unification in October 1990. Koreans have one major advantage,...

COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE

Nov 24, 2001

U.S. civil liberties a needless war casualty

By Bob Keefe

WASHINGTON -- Support for U.S. President George W. Bush and his handling of the war effort remains high, and the military success will help maintain this support level. Bush is testing his popular support regularly here at home as he pushes to implement his conservative legislative agenda, which is meeting...

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 24, 2001

WTO entry to change Chinese livelihoods

By David Wall

CAMBRIDGE, England -- So they finally made it. China has been admitted to the World Trade Organization. And so has Taiwan. Now that the bilateral and multilateral negotiations are over and China's trade partners have extracted all that they were able to in concessions from the new member, the fun begins....

COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW

Nov 24, 2001

Putin seizes the moment

By Constantine Pleshakov

Russian President Vladimir Putin is a very lucky man. Instead of running a Russian spy network in some sleepy Central European country, as his training and career once suggested he would, he skyrocketed to the top position in the Kremlin. There, inexperienced and vulnerable, he faced not the consolidated...

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 22, 2001

Imperial Navy doctor's wartime diary opens a window to the nation's past

By Edward R. Beauchamp

In World War II, the only U.S. soil to be captured by the Japanese Imperial Army was the so-called Outer Aleutians. Located approximately equidistant between Los Angeles and Tokyo, the unopposed seizure in June, 1942, of the barren and virtually unpopulated islands of Kiska and Attu in the Bering Sea...

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 22, 2001

Protecting the public from the threats of terror and depression

By Michael L. Lahr and Hiroshi Ohta

In his Sept. 30 New York Times article, "The Fear Economy," MIT economist Paul Krugman warned that the American public should be prepared for a possible deflationary spiral comparable to the Great Depression of the 1930s and Japan's milder but chronic depression of the 1990s. A major depression could...

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 22, 2001

Oil fears make attack on Iraq unlikely

By Gwynne Dyer

LONDON -- "We hear that Iraq may be targeted," said Sheik Ahmed Zaki al-Yamani, oil minister of Saudi Arabia during the 1970s and '80s heyday of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and now chairman of the London-based Center for Global Energy Studies. "Now, if that is a fact, the attacks...

COMMENTARY

Nov 21, 2001

Recipe for economic change

By Brad Glosserman

WASHINGTON — In recent weeks, Taiwan has taken two steps to prepare for the transformation of its economy. Taipei's decision to lift many of the restrictions on investment in the mainland and the island's entry into the World Trade Organization will produce fundamental shifts in the way Taiwan conducts...

COMMENTARY

Nov 21, 2001

LDP strife must end before it's too late

By Kenzo Uchida

The entire world has undergone radical change since terrorists attacked New York and Washington on Sept. 11. Having identified Osama bin Laden as the mastermind of the attacks, the United States, with military cooperation from Britain, launched bombing raids against Afghanistan's Taliban regime in October....

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 20, 2001

Criticism of Pakistan is off the mark

By Imtiaz Ahmafd

The Nov. 10 article by Brahma Chellaney, "Pakistan's uncertain future," gives a bleak picture of Pakistan that I am afraid does not exist in reality. Allow me to rectify this false image so that The Japan Times readers have a clear and balanced view of my country, which is so much in the news these days....

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 19, 2001

Turning victory into permanent success

By Gwynne Dyer

LONDON -- Four out of five: Mazar-e Sharif, Herat, Kabul and Jalalabad. All but one of Afghanistan's major cities have been lost by the Taliban and captured by the Northern Alliance in less than a week, and the last, Kandahar, is likely to fall at any time. Neither Washington nor anyone else expected...

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 19, 2001

Pitfalls litter Koizumi reform path

By Yosuke Naito

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi needs to place a bit more emphasis on growth-oriented economic policy if he wants to maximize the effect of his structural reform measures, British economic journalists said at a recent symposium in Tokyo.

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