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COMMENTARY

Sep 23, 2000

Politicians face a busy fall

By Kenzo Uchida

The 72-day extraordinary Diet session opened Thursday. It will last until Dec. 1, which is unusually long for an extra session. The political schedule will be very tight in December: The government will compile a fiscal 2001 budget and lay the groundwork for the reorganization of the central bureaucracy...

COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE

Sep 23, 2000

The tide turns and Gore seizes the moment

By Bob Keefe

In political campaigns, when things go well, they really roll. When things sour, nothing seems to work.

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 23, 2000

Spy scandal undercuts Putin's diplomacy

By Edward Neilan

The atmosphere of intrigue has been as thick as homemade borscht in Tokyo's diplomatic quarter since police caught a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force officer passing confidential documents to the Russian Embassy naval attache in a posh local restaurant.

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 23, 2000

No German blueprint for the two Koreas

By Ronald Meinardus

SEOUL -- The relationship between local autonomy and unification is becoming an increasingly hot topic in South Korea, as more and more local authorities aspire to an active role in the process of rapprochement with the North. It is clear that this nation is passing through a historic moment. Hardly...

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 22, 2000

Rebirth of Sino-Russian alliance unlikely

By Russell Working

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia -- Chinese Premier Li Peng was having the time of his life. First, academics at Far Eastern State University bestowed a doctorate of law on him. Then women dressed in white and beaded caps like boyars' daughters on their wedding day danced to traditional music. And Yevgeny Nazdratenko,...

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 22, 2000

Sabah -- unfinished business between Malaysia and the Philippines

By David Chew

SINGAPORE -- The kidnap-for-ransom hostage crisis triggered by the Abu Sayyaf rebels in a remote corner of the South China Sea has attracted worldwide attention. But of even greater significance, it has further strained ties between the Philippines and Malaysia, as each country blames the other for allowing...

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 21, 2000

MacArthur's audacious landing at Inchon astounded everyone -- except Mao

By Harvey Stockwin

HONG KONG -- Sept. 15 was the 50th anniversary of the famous Inchon amphibious landing by U.S. forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur, which so decisively turned the tide of battle in the early stages of the Korean War.

COMMENTARY

Sep 20, 2000

Council's proposals bode well

By Gregory Clark

For an inside view on how Japan Inc. really operates, take a look at the workings of the National People's Council on Education Reform, now winding up its discussions and of which I was made a member, although I am not a Japanese national.

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 20, 2000

Taiwan is worthy of a place in the U.N.

By Alexander K. Young

The United Nations' Millennium Summit in New York, attended by about 150 heads of state and governments earlier this month, pledged to make globalization a positive force for all the people of the world. It published a list of central values for 21st-century international relations. It also admitted...

COMMENTARY

Sep 19, 2000

Dispute defies quick solution

By Nobuo Asai

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed in their recent Tokyo summit to resolve the bilateral territorial dispute over the Northern Territories, stirring mixed reactions in the two countries. Although they agreed to continue peace-treaty talks toward the yearend deadline,...

COMMENTARY

Sep 18, 2000

U.S. role in Korea nearly over

By Doug Bandow

WASHINGTON -- The real presidential race has finally begun, as Vice President Al Gore and Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush battle over the state of the military. But their focus on questions of morale and readiness ignores the more fundamental issue of security commitments, which require...

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 18, 2000

North Korea drawing the right lessons

By David Wall

CAMBRIDGE, England -- We may never know if North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong Il went to Beijing in May, ahead of his historic meeting with South Korean President Kim Dae Jung in June, on his own initiative or at the insistence of Chinese President Jiang Zemin. What we do know is that, very unusually,...

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

It's back to the classroom for some residents as municipal governments across the country conduct lessons to learn how to use new technologies.

Can aging Japan go digital without leaving anyone behind?

By Tomoko Otake

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