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COMMENTARY / World

Jul 24, 1999

Africa, a blind spot for Europe's left

By Blackman Ngoro

The European left has been so stung by the rise of nationalism and religious sentiment in Eastern Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain that it no longer knows if it has a reason to exist.

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 20, 1999

Tax cuts put Japan on track

By Chiaki Nishiyama

The Japanese economy is now out of the worst phase of the recession. But the process of achieving recovery and even- tual prosperity has not been entirely smooth. First, we cannot yet claim that firms in various industrial sectors have earnestly initiated their restructuring with real zest. Second, fiscal...

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 19, 1999

Anthem and flag just need some tweaking

By Hal Gold

The battle over whether or not to pass legislation giving the de facto national anthem "Kimigayo" and the Hinomaru flag official status has been a black-and- white, yes-or-no affair. There have been some legalistic, even occasionally Clintonesque, arguments presented in the Diet on the definition of...

COMMENTARY / World / GUEST FORUM

Jul 18, 1999

How Mahathir overcame the Asian crisis

By Eiichi Furukawa

Starting in September last year, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia was strongly criticized by the Western media and some Western governments over the introduction of capital controls and the sacking of his deputy prime minister and finance minister Anwar Ibrahim, who was later tried for alleged...

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 18, 1999

Apparently, all roads lead to Vladivostok

By Russell Working

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia -- No, Peter and Eileen Crichton were not to be mistaken for the U.S. couple making a millennial tour of five continents in a lemon yellow Mercedes-Benz "off-roadster." Nor did they have anything to do with the two Germans who had just crossed Russia in a 1963 Citroen 2 CV.

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 17, 1999

How globalization can undercut security

By Edward Neilan

Globalization is already a fact of life in the international-missile and military-armaments "community."

COMMENTARY

Jul 17, 1999

Cross-strait relations at risk

By Ralph Cossa

"What is Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui up to?" That remains the burning question, following Lee's apparent abandonment of the long-standing "one-China" policy that used to be the one important common denominator underwriting cross-strait relations and Sino-U.S. and Sino-Japanese relations regarding Taiwan....

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 17, 1999

Time for women to 'hold up half the sky'

By Hisashi Uno

Adrian Cozette Chandler, a U.S. educator and colleague of mine, has come up with a great idea and hopes to see it materialize: the publication of a bilingual book, written in easy-to-understand English and Japanese, in which ordinary American and Japanese women review and candidly discuss issues crucial...

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 17, 1999

Taliban conducts a war against women

By Cesar Chelala

Almost two years after the Taliban forces took power in most of Afghanistan, their attack on Afghan women continues unabated, impervious to international outrage. Although the Taliban claim that they want to create a "true" Islamic society in Afghanistan, its rule so far has been characterized by a medieval...

COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW

Jul 14, 1999

The Russian capital's bazaar economy

By Constantine Pleshakov

Every nation has a dream. For Iraq, it is a world oil crisis. For Croatia, it is NATO membership. For Serbia, it is a tornado hitting Washington, D.C. As for Russia, its dream is to be recognized as a part of Europe.

COMMENTARY

Jul 13, 1999

Break deadlock on base issues

By Keizo Nabeshima

U.S. President Bill Clinton expressed hope June 25 that all pending issues concerning U.S. military bases in Okinawa, including the issue of the Marine Corps Futenma Air Station, will be resolved before he attends a Group of Eight summit there in July 2000. "I don't want to go over there and have all...

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 10, 1999

India's window of opportunity in Kashmir

By Ramesh Thakur

As the war drags on to a slow and gory conclusion on the Himalayan heights, India has an unprecedented opportunity to seize the moral high ground and take the Kashmir problem right off the international agenda.

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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