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COMMENTARY / World

Apr 14, 2001

Korean impasse is U.S.' fault

By Ronald Meinardus

SEOUL -- "Sooner or later, the North Koreans will return to the negotiating table," said South Korea's former Foreign Minister Lee Joung Binn in an interview on the eve of his resignation. At this moment, political realities on the Korean Peninsula don't seem to justify his optimism. As the government...

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Apr 14, 2001

Clinton's shadow over India

By Brahma Chellaney

NEW DELHI -- Scarred by his ignominious final acts in office, former U.S. President Bill Clinton stepped out of the shadow of scandal to try and be a healer during his just-completed tour of the earthquake-ravaged western Indian state of Gujarat. In New Delhi this week, Clinton was welcomed by another...

COMMENTARY

Apr 13, 2001

Media guilty of hounding Mori from office

By Ryuichiro Hosokawa

Since political parties by definition seek to attain control of government, it is only natural that the Democratic Party and other opposition groups should have demanded Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's resignation in unison. On the other hand, it is incumbent upon journalists to comment on government policies...

COMMENTARY / World

Apr 13, 2001

Spat over whaling unlikely to sour business

By Brent Kininmont

Helen Clark is not afraid to snap at the hand that helps feed her nation.

COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE

Apr 12, 2001

Environment takes back seat to U.S. economic recovery

By Bob Keefe

U.S. President George W. Bush continued his personal campaign to change previous U.S. policy two weeks ago by renouncing the nation's commitment to limit industrial emissions of carbon dioxide. He did it shortly after Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christine Todd Whitman had given the...

COMMENTARY / World

Apr 12, 2001

A 'cold war' in the making

By Mineo Nakajima

The collision between a U.S. surveillance plane and a Chinese fighter jet over the South China Sea reflects an emerging pattern of confrontation between the United States and China -- a development I noted in this column even prior to that incident.

COMMENTARY / World

Apr 12, 2001

Will Pyongyang split U.S., South Korea?

By John Barry Kotch

SEOUL -- The recent shakeup in Seoul's foreign policy and security team in the aftermath of the Washington summit represents a double effort to patch up relations with the United States, while persuading North Korea to come back to the bargaining table. Both tasks require supreme diplomatic skill.

COMMENTARY / World

Apr 11, 2001

The Bank of Japan's new policy is sound

By Isao Kubota

On March 19, the Bank of Japan decided that it would focus more on money supply than on interest rates and that the new policy would be continued until it was confident that the consumer price index, which has been declining continuously for over two years, was rising.

COMMENTARY

Apr 11, 2001

The hazards of reform -- British-style

By David Howell

LONDON -- Forget sagging stock markets and omens of world recession. Forget global warming and U.S. President George W. Bush's rejection of the Kyoto treaty on carbon emissions. Forget, even, the foot-and-mouth disease that is currently paralyzing Britain's farming and tourist industries and has caused...

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Apr 11, 2001

A turning point for the LDP

By Keizo Nabeshima

The result of the election to choose a new president of the Liberal Democratic Party will be announced today. This will end a domestic political vacuum that has persisted since Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori revealed his intention of stepping down, over a month ago.

COMMENTARY / World

Apr 10, 2001

Spy-plane incident bolsters PLA position

By Calum Macleod

BEIJING -- America may translate as the "beautiful country" in Chinese, but it is also known as the arrogant superpower heir to the European invaders who carved up parts of China in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The spy-plane incident is rapidly inflating the hate element of China's love-hate relationship...

COMMENTARY

Apr 10, 2001

Reasons to thank Mr. Mori

By Takamitsu Sawa

Since he took office a year ago, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori has seen his popularity nosedive as a result of a series of gaffes he committed. Now that he is set to resign in late April, let me review the role the Mori administration has played.

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

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