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COMMENTARY / World
Nov 13, 2001
'Peace initiative' offers nothing new
By Michael Dahan and Sam Bahour
The new Israeli "peace initiative" drafted by Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is nothing more than a placebo. It is designed for internal Israeli consumption and consumption by the United States and Europe in response to their pressuring Israel for positive...
COMMENTARY
Nov 11, 2001
North Korea guards its antiterror card
By Ronald Meinardus
SEOUL -- The message conveyed in a newspaper interview was crystal clear: "The North Koreans are missing an opportunity to play a responsible role by not joining us," said Thomas Hubbard, the U.S. Ambassador to South Korea. "We'd like to see North Korea join in international concrete actions to stamp...
COMMENTARY
Nov 11, 2001
Unified war plan impossible
By David Howell
LONDON -- Giving parties is fun, but it also poses risks -- chiefly that of offending those who are not asked.
COMMENTARY
Nov 10, 2001
At last, Mori solution gets reconsidered
By Gregory Clark
The events of Sept. 11 have at least done some good. To bolster its war on "terrorism," the United States seems willing finally to put an end to its highly contrived legacy of Cold War, anti-Beijing policies. Meanwhile, Japan may be ready to end its highly contrived, 50-year Cold War dispute with Moscow...
COMMENTARY
Nov 10, 2001
Brace yourself for the new McCarthyism
By TED RALL
NEW YORK -- According to The Wall Street Journal I'm "probably the most bitterly anti-American commentator in America." The National Review calls me "a big fat zero, an ignorant, talentless hack with a flair for recycling leftist pieties into snarky cartoons that inspired breakfast-table chuckles among...
COMMENTARY
Nov 10, 2001
Pakistan's uncertain future
By Brahma Chellaney
NEW DELHI -- Much before America's declaration of war on terrorism forced Islamabad to turn against its own creation, the Taliban, Pakistan faced an uncertain future. During a four-hour stop in Islamabad in March 2000, U.S. President Bill Clinton warned Pakistanis in a televised address about the "obstacles...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 9, 2001
Howard ahead as election draws near
By Alan Goodall
SYDNEY -- In these days of crisis -- as Australia sends troops to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan and thousands of boat people try to reach Australia illegally -- what more does Prime Minister John Howard need to win a national election this coming Saturday?
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 9, 2001
Harassed leaders could play Kashmir card
By Gautaman Bhaskaran
T here is increasing concern that and the ongoing war in Afghanistan may well give India and Pakistan yet another reason to start a new war over Kashmir, a region they both claim as their own. In recent weeks, they have locked themselves deeper in their border conflict. Both countries, which have fought...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 8, 2001
For many Arab regimes, the 'war on terror' begins at home
By David Hirst
BEIRUT -- The United States has long divided Arab regimes into two broad categories: the friendly, pro-Western "moderate" ones and the less friendly, "radical" ones. Since Sept. 11, two key "moderates' -- Egypt and Saudi Arabia -- have undergone a drastic change of status in American eyes. Only arch-villain...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 8, 2001
Taxing currency speculators
By Harlem Desir and Glyn Ford
LONDON -- The decision by European economy and finance ministers in Liege on Sept. 23 to commission a study of the effect of "Tobin-style" taxes on currency transactions indicates a new and surprising high-water mark of support for taxation on speculative capital flows.
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Nov 8, 2001
Partisan politics heat up
By Bob Keefe
WASHINGTON -- You can feel the change. It is not back to politics as usual -- pre-Sept. 11 variety -- but the partisan blood is flowing again in the body politic. In the spirit of accommodation that has marked the post-attack period, Congress has been passing major measures of great consequence on a...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 6, 2001
Fighting for independence in the shadow of a Goliath
By Russell Working
ALMATY, Kazakstan -- The phone calls started last May, after the body of an ethnic Uighur activist was found strangled and dumped in a water reservoir.
Chinese buyer of Okinawa Island to make visit in summer
Yanaha Island in Okinawa Prefecture as seen from a ferry.
Crashed Jeju jet’s black box failure shows decadeslong gap in power rules
The flight data recorder retrieved from Jeju Air flight 2216, which crashed killing 179 people in December. Black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for the flight stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, South Korea's transport ministry said Saturday.
TikTok’s fate rests on Trump after U.S. Supreme Court upholds law
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s potential role in any plan to save TikTok remains both intriguing and complicated. The ban is set to take effect just one day before his inauguration, and while it has been reported that President Joe Biden won’t enforce the ban on day one, the decision on what to do long-term will become Trump’s problem almost immediately.
Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki signs with Dodgers
Roki Sasaki pitches for Japan during the World Baseball Classic at Tokyo Dome on March 11, 2023.
Major Japanese firms pay record winter bonuses
The average figure of winter bonuses agreed on by labor unions and employers stood 4.93% higher than a year earlier.
For tourists in search of seasonal sights, Yamagata makes its case
For some time away from Tokyo's suffocating urban sameness, Yamagata Prefecture is home to a soothing array of natural abundance.
A slow dive into ‘a moment and an eternity’ with Ryuichi Sakamoto
From the mid-2000s onward, Ryuichi Sakamoto created a number of installation works, often in collaboration with Shiro Takatani, of multimedia art collective Dumb Type.
The efforts to bridge the disaster information gap, 30 years on
Roxana Oshiro and her husband gather their belongings in front of their house in Furukawacho, in Kobe's Suma Ward, after the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995.
Japan looks to up the ante with more money and partners in military aid program
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Philippine Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo hold a joint news conference in Taguig City, Metro Manila, the Philippines, on Wednesday.
Possibility of Nankai Trough megaquake now 80%, government panel reports
A map of the hypocentral region of an anticipated Nankai Trough earthquake

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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