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COMMENTARY / World

Jul 4, 2002

The Cyprus connection: How Milosevic evaded arms sanctions

By Russell Working and Nonna Chernyakova

NICOSIA, Cyprus -- On Dec. 27, 1998, a Yugoslav named Drakomir Stojkovic flew from Belgrade to Cyprus's Larnaca airport on a private jet carrying bags stuffed with 35 million deutsche marks -- worth roughly $17 million.

COMMENTARY

Jul 3, 2002

South Korea and Japan emerge victorious in World Cup

By Ralph Cossa

Listening to the South Korea fans cheering "Dae-han-min-guk" (Republic of Korea) after their World Cup match against Germany on June 25 and watching fireworks light up the Seoul skyline, it was hard to realize that the South Korean team had lost its semifinal match.

EDITORIALS

Jul 3, 2002

High goals for G8 summit

With the world still living in the shadow of the Sept. 11, this year's Group of Eight summit meeting had its work cut out: reinforcing the ongoing campaign against terrorism. On this score, G8 leaders achieved a measure of success during two days of talks last week in the Canadian Rockies resort of Kananaskis,...

EDITORIALS

Jul 2, 2002

Cup filled to the brim

It is a truth not quite universally acknowledged that interest in the World Cup diminishes sharply once one's country's team has been eliminated, unless one is actually hosting the affair. There were thus, by Sunday night, probably just four countries in the world still tuned in to the 2002 proceedings:...

COMMENTARY

Jul 2, 2002

Pork-barreling still rampant

By Keizo Nabeshima

Lower House member Muneo Suzuki was recently arrested by the Tokyo District Prosecutor's Office on charges of accepting a bribe in an influence-peddling scandal. Following the arrest, the Lower House approved a nonbinding motion demanding Suzuki resign as a lawmaker. This was the second such motion approved,...

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 1, 2002

Arrangement keeps Hong Kong on track

By Alex Fong

Since assuming the post of principal representative for the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Tokyo a little more than a month ago, I have found tremendous interest here in what has been happening to Hong Kong following its reunification with China on July 1, 1997. About five years before reunification,...

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 1, 2002

ATM-phobia marks banking leap in Laos

By Tom Morgan

VIENTIANE -- It is only an ATM, but it might as well be an alien spacecraft that crash-landed in central Vientiane. People still do not know what to make of the country's first ATM, despite the fact that it was installed three months ago.

COMMENTARY

Jul 1, 2002

Carbon tax is long past due

By Morihiro Hosokawa

The global environment is deteriorating. I saw this firsthand on my trip to China several years ago. The plane arrived a few hours behind schedule because of blowing dust. As I disembarked, I noticed the jetliner was covered with black particles of "yellow sand."

COMMENTARY

Jul 1, 2002

Tough talk is no key to success

By Hugh Cortazzi

LONDON -- An article in the June 10 Nikkei Weekly by a deputy editor of political news at the Nihon Keizai Shimbun had the headline "Foreign Ministry diplomacy failing nation on all fronts." The Foreign Ministry was criticized for not being tough enough in support of national interests. And praise was...

COMMENTARY / JAPAN IN THE GLOBAL ERA

Jul 1, 2002

Scapegoat seekers fuel nation's decline

By Jean-pierre Lehmann

LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- It is natural when one has domestic problems to look for foreign scapegoats. The United States' paranoia over Japan's trade surplus and foreign-investment binge in the 1980s is a good example. While most nations reflect this general syndrome up to a point, the Japanese seem to...

EDITORIALS

Jul 1, 2002

Foreigners in their midst

The European Union, concerned increasingly about the rising anti-immigrant sentiment among its member states, has agreed to launch a joint program to curb the influx of illegal immigrants from third countries. That is one of the most significant results of the two-day EU summit meeting held late last...

EDITORIALS

Jun 30, 2002

'An honorable man'

There is a professor at New York's Vassar College who clearly knows his Shakespeare, perhaps not as well as he thought he did until a week or so ago, but at least well enough to recall Touchstone's advice in "As You Like It": "Let us make an honorable retreat, though not with bag and baggage, yet with...

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

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Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat

By Greg Dvorak

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