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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 4, 2014
Putin gambit challenges post-Cold War system
One senior Obama administration official called Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions in the Ukraine "outrageous." A second described them as an "outlaw act." A third said his brazen use of military force harks back to a past century.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 3, 2014
Repairing the tripartite ties
Japan's relations with China and South Korea are at their lowest ebb since Japan normalized its diplomatic relations with them. One way to break the jogjam could be a tripartite free trade agreement.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 3, 2014
China fights dragon of credit-allocation reform
China needs to reforming the credit-allocation mechanism to provide more capital to well-performing projects and enforce hard budget constraints on poor-performing borrowers.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 2, 2014
Xi orders terrorism crackdown after deadly rail station attack
China's President Xi Jinping ordered a crackdown on "violent terrorist activities" after 33 people died when knife-wielding assailants rampaged through a train station in a southwestern city Saturday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Mar 2, 2014
China says 33 killed in Xinjiang rebel strike
China on Sunday blamed militants from the restive far western region of Xinjiang for an attack at a train station on the other side of the country by knife-wielding "terrorists" in which at least 33 died, including four of the assailants, who were shot dead.
COMMENTARY
Feb 28, 2014
China uses Ukraine unrest as argument for stability
China's Communist Party-controlled media appear to be using the unrest in Ukraine as a teaching moment to point out the pitfalls of clamoring for more rapid reforms in a large, multi-ethnic society — one like China's.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 28, 2014
Russia's Crimean shore?
Today's Crimea, the traditional playground of czars and Soviet comissars, does not want independence from Ukraine; it wants continued dependence on Russia.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 27, 2014
U.S., Japan to raise China ADIZ at U.N. meeting
The United States and Japan will lobby against China's recently established air defense identification zone during a U.N. civil aviation conference currently being held in Montreal, Japanese government sources said Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 26, 2014
Wartime labor suit filed in China
A group of Chinese experts and citizens file suit against two Japanese companies, seeking compensation for victims of wartime forced labor.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 26, 2014
Chinese to sue Japanese firms over wartime forced labor
A group of Chinese experts and citizens will on Wednesday file a lawsuit against Japanese companies to seek compensation for victims of wartime forced labor, a lawyer involved in the plan said Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 25, 2014
Japan to raise air defense zone again at U.N. agency
Japan plans to propose taking up the issue of air defense identification zones with the International Civil Aviation Organization as it did last November after China's declaration of an ADIZ in the East China Sea that covers the Japan-administered Senkaku Islands.
EDITORIALS
Feb 24, 2014
A regime of unparalleled brutality
Sadly little will come of the report on a U.N. human rights inquiry that has concluded that the brutality of the North Korean government 'does not have any parallel in the contemporary world.'
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 24, 2014
Crisis of water scarcity continues to stalk China
While much attention is paid to the consequences of environmental pollution in China, a separate crisis of water scarcity is brewing with equally dangerous consequences for people's health and for the country's development.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 24, 2014
China, eyeing Japan, seeks WWII focus for Xi during Germany visit
China wants to make World War II a key part of a trip by President Xi Jinping to Germany next month, much to Berlin's discomfort, diplomatic sources said, as Beijing tries to use German atonement for its wartime past to embarrass Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2014
Bogus game apps new woe for Nintendo
Nintendo Co. isn't offering Super Mario games on smartphones. Other people are.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Feb 23, 2014
Chinese schooling wins praise — but not from nation's parents or educators
The streets surrounding Shijia primary school in Beijing were mobbed by a crowd of parents so dense that cars were obliged to beat a retreat.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2014
Japan's cherry blossom exhibition in Shanghai aims to draw Chinese tourists
The Japan Tourism Agency opened a cherry blossom exhibition in Shanghai on Saturday in a bid to draw more Chinese visitors during the upcoming hanami season.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 22, 2014
Noam Chomsky: Truth to power
Often dubbed one of the world's most important intellectuals and its leading public dissident, Noam Chomsky was for years among the top 10 most quoted academics on the planet, edged out only by William Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Aristotle.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 21, 2014
China's Xi wasting time trying to eradicate vice
Despite what may be the best of intentions, President Xi Jinping almost certainly is not going to succeed in ending prostitution in Dongguan, much less China.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2014
944,000 foreign travelers visited Japan in January, up 41% on year
An estimated 944,000 foreign travelers visited Japan in January, up 41.2 percent from the same month last year and the most ever for the first month of a year, the Japan National Tourism Organization said Wednesday.

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