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COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jan 4, 2014
Back and forward: Asia in 2013; predictions for 2014
Crystal-ball gazing is a notoriously inexact science, so before getting to that, let's lessen the potential exposure to ridicule by starting with a roundup of the last 12 months' key trends and events in Asia.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jan 3, 2014
China denies baby deaths caused by suspect hepatitis B vaccine
China has found that a hepatitis B vaccine produced by a Shenzhen biotechnology company didn't cause the deaths of nine babies who received injections, the national food and drug agency said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / NEW YEAR SPECIAL
Jan 1, 2014
History overshadows present and future Japan-China relations
Can Japan and China find a way to reduce the risk of conflict, and prevent continuing hostilities that could last decades? Can they peacefully coexist in the new era when they are both great powers?
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Dec 31, 2013
China's workers leave kids in country
Regulars of the Jianba barbershop in the southern Chinese city of Zhuzhou recently found it shuttered, with a curious note taped to the door.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 29, 2013
Surprising elements of a Chinese city's success
Few people outside of China know Foshan, a city of 7 million located at the heart of the Pearl River Delta in southern China.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Dec 28, 2013
Incredible India and the New Delhi Dissensus
On a recent visit to New Delhi, I met an activist promoting the rights of dalits (untouchables), who quipped, playing off a current national-branding campaign: "India is indeed incredible . . . but only in paradox."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 28, 2013
After Abe Yasukuni jaunt, all eyes on Xi
Chinese President Xi Jinping's reaction to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Yasukuni Shrine will determine whether Asia's top two economies come closer to a hostile incident.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 27, 2013
Chinese media slam shrine trip but public quiet
No demonstrations against Japan were seen in Chinese cities Friday after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made his visit to war-linked Yasukini Shrine the previous day, but the newspapers were nearly unanimous in criticizing him for blatantly challenging the postwar international order.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 26, 2013
Abe's visit to Yasukuni to further incite hard-liners in China, South Korea
Although the U.S. had effectively urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to refrain from visiting Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, he goes anyway, ensuring Japan's relations with China and South Korea will further sour.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 24, 2013
'Crossing' Beijing has lasting consequences
The sad irony is that, since the early 1990s, people like Liu Binyan, Su Xiaokang, Chen Yizi, Su Shaozhi and others who know the elite communist culture well, who have lived in the United States and remain willing to cross the dangerous line into complete truth-telling, have never had much of a hearing in Washington.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 24, 2013
Politically bankrupt China dare not tolerate a free press
The practice of journalism in China, a country where 30 practitioners are in prison, has never been easy. During 2013, it has become a great deal harder.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 23, 2013
Do international rules apply only to weaker countries?
China's Nov. 23 declaration of an air defense identification zone extending to territories it does not control and America's Dec. 12 arrest, strip-search and handcuffing of a New York-based Indian woman diplomat epitomize these powers' unilateralist tendencies, demonstrating that universal conformity to a rules-based international order still seems distant,
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 21, 2013
Chinese security official set to fall
Communist Party authorities are investigating a vice minister of public security, part of a widening anti-corruption campaign that could ensnare higher leaders and reverberate across the party's top ranks.
EDITORIALS
Dec 20, 2013
Cyber-attack probe inconclusive
The Metropolitan Police Department has given up on its investigation of a 2010 cyber-attack against Japan's biggest defense contractor, unable to confirm the source of the attack.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 20, 2013
LDP wants Japan-China gas field issue taken to international courts
The Liberal Democratic Party proposes that the issue of China potentially deciding to develop gas fields in contested waters be taken to international tribunals.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 20, 2013
The trouble with China's Troubled-Asset Relief
It is becoming increasingly apparent that the massive economic-stimulus package that China's government launched in the midst of the global recession has generated significant risk for China's banking system.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 19, 2013
Hope for reform in North Korea may have died
The chances of Deng Xiaoping-styled reform in North Korea may have just died along with the regimes No. 2 leader, Jang Song Thaek.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 17, 2013
China's problem with Kim Jong Un
Last week's dramatic execution of Kim Jong Un's uncle — the China-friendly Jang Song Thaek — should prompt Chinese President Xi Jinping to all he can to rein in the vindictive, unpredictable Kim.
JAPAN
Dec 17, 2013
Japan adopts new security strategy to counter assertive China
Japan on Tuesday adopted a new national security strategy, pledging to beef up defenses against an increasingly assertive China to protect its territory, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aims to boost Tokyo's standing as a contributor to global peace and security.
JAPAN
Dec 16, 2013
China should face up to global concerns on ADIZ: Suga
China should acknowledge that the international community has concerns about its newly declared air defense identification zone in the East China Sea, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Monday after Beijing stepped up criticism of Tokyo for its "malicious slander."

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