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COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Apr 19, 2014

Team Abe's alternate-reality Kool-Aid

Japan's relations with China and South Korea are in tatters, there has been no progress on dealing with North Korea's nuclear weapons program, strains with Washington persist, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks are at an impasse, whaling got harpooned and hopes for a deal with Russia on the northern...
Reader Mail
Apr 16, 2014

Future disasters on Abe's hands

As a man living in a prefecture that hosts nuclear plants, Fukushima, I was very interested in the April 12 editorial "Energy plan looks to the past."
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 9, 2014

Energy plan fails to set targets for renewables

The government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's final version of a draft energy report reinforces the role of nuclear power in the country's future, but falls short of setting specific goals for renewable energy use.
EDITORIALS
Apr 6, 2014

A risky weapons-export policy

The Abe administration must consider whether its new policy that relaxes Japan's long-standing prohibitions against weapons exports could increase tension with other countries and thereby reduce national security.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 4, 2014

Japan's image hurt by Abe's militarist facade: Nye

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's nationalistic views on history are hurting Japan's chances in an increasingly public PR battle with China and South Korea, a Harvard professor says.
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Mar 30, 2014

Kaoru Yosano, liberal patriot

Some people's traits are not recognized for a long time even by those close to them. One such person is Kaoru Yosano, a 75-year-old former Lower House member — and a liberal politician full of patriotic fervor.
EDITORIALS
Mar 27, 2014

Aiming for a Tokyo-Seoul summit

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye need to follow up their first formal meeting this week — held on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit — with a face-to-face meeting that doesn't require the intermediation of U.S. President Barack Obama.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 24, 2014

Temp workers threaten housing recovery

Momoko Suzuki quit her sales job in Tokyo and took a temporary position so she could pursue her film ambitions. Suzuki's employment change may force her to abandon another goal — owning a home.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 14, 2014

Japan may boost immigrant numbers

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga refuses to deny a media report that the Abe administration is considering increasing the number of immigrants to boost Japan's potential for long-term economic growth.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2014

Abe pitches trilateral meet to kick-start chilly ties with Seoul

The government is trying to arrange a trilateral summit with South Korea and the United States for this month in a bid to thaw Tokyo's frozen relations with Seoul, an official said Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
Mar 7, 2014

Don't reopen old wounds

If the Abe administration tries to weaken or scrap the 1993 'Kono statement,' the perception is likely to strengthen in the international community that it is bent on whitewashing Japan's wartime behavior and, even today, lacks respect for the honor and dignity of women.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 6, 2014

U.S. lawmaker pushes Japan to treat 'comfort women' as human rights issue

A key U.S. congressman who is pressing the Japanese government to issue a thorough apology for the wartime 'comfort women' system urges Tokyo to view the matter as a human rights issue, not as a political spat between nations.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 4, 2014

NY Times editorial erred in claiming Abe denied massacre: Suga

The New York Times erroneously reported in a recent editorial that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has claimed the 1937 Nanjing Massacre never happened, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday, adding the government has already lodged a protest with the paper and demanded a correction be published....
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 3, 2014

Why does the LDP prefer the GOP?

What is the justification for the Liberal Democratic Party's strange preference for America's Republican Party over the years? The two parties have little in common.
JAPAN
Feb 28, 2014

Kono sex slave statement to be scrutinized

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says the Abe administration will launch a study team to re-examine the 1993 Kono statement apologizing for the wartime sex slave system.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 27, 2014

'Comfort women' statues spur debate

In the northern Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, population 192,000, sits a public park with a simple statue that has become a lightning rod in the brewing political storm among the United States, Japan and South Korea over the past few months.
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Feb 25, 2014

Will Constitution survive Abe?

Conservative hawks who are close allies of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe express irritation over the failure of the move to amend the Constitution to have gained as much momentum as they had hoped.

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