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CIVIL WAR

Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 27, 2013
Syrian refugee crisis pushes fragile Lebanon closer to breaking point
As you come through the military checkpoints on the way into Wadi Khaled, local mobile phones bleep with an unsolicited text: "The Ministry of Tourism welcomes you to Syria."
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 25, 2013
A better way to end Syria's civil war
The political path to peace in Syria should give intimidated third-party groups a voice by bringing the many segments of society together, regardless of which side of the conflict they are on.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 19, 2013
Well-funded extremists bleed Syria's moderate rebel groups of fighters
In a medical clinic packed with injured Syrian rebels, 23-year-old Mohammed Hadhoud lies waiting for an operation to remove a machine-gun bullet lodged in his spine. His family cannot afford the bill, and the moderate Islamist brigade he fights with has refused to fully cover the cost.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 18, 2013
Yemen teeters between hope and division as tensions rise
Uniting a Yemeni 'homeland' around similar ideas while rebellion brews in the north, a secessionist movement builds in the south and a U.S. drone war carries on is no easy task.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 13, 2013
In Iraq, nothing gets built and civil war looms
Back in Iraq, nothing gets built or repaired, unemployment is 30 percent, and the Shiites and Sunnis are again lurching toward civil war.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 3, 2013
The petty source of Lincoln's majestic vision
It could be that Abraham Lincoln's triumphs of the intellect were made possible by his very proximity to the mundane events that are said to exhaust politicians today.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 1, 2013
At the Battle of Gettysburg, choices mattered
The Battle of Gettysburg, fought 150 years ago this week, was not the first example of 'total war.' But it did show why choices matter in U.S. history.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 12, 2013
Syria bleeds as West watches
The only proper response to those who fret about 'where do you stop?' if the international community intervenes in the Syrian conflict is 'when do you start
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 12, 2013
The Confederate soldier in the American family tree
The sun was blazing overhead, and the horses and the men were waiting in the woods. They could see the Union cannons across the open field near the peach orchard.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 6, 2013
Remembering the awe that is Gettysburg
It was the biggest battle of the war, unequaled in scale and violence by anything seen before or since in North America. Two immense armies collided in the fields and orchards and woods around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 1, 1863, and fought for three days with no quarter given, in arguably the...
Japan Times
WORLD
May 6, 2013
The shifting strategy of battlefield preservation
In 1988, Sen. Dale Bumpers of Arkansas pleaded with his colleagues to pass legislation that would prevent a new shopping mall on land integral to the Second Battle of Manassas. He imagined a future in which ever more commercial development encroached on land in Virginia preserved by the National Park...
Japan Times
WORLD
May 6, 2013
Software program gives Gettysburg Address poor grade
"Imagine taking a college exam, and, instead of handing in a blue book and getting a grade from a professor a few weeks later, clicking the 'send' button when you are done and receiving a grade back instantly, your essay scored by a software program."
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 10, 2013
Why a Syrian no-fly zone is the right thing to do
Detractors of a Syrian no-fly zone miss the point. Its purpose would not be to resolve the conflict but to prevent escalation and provide leverage to talks.
Reader Mail
Apr 27, 2008
Tibet was never a Utopia
Your April 21 editorial "Torch relay lights up many issues" attaches considerable weight to human rights. If members of your editorial board had paid a visit to China in the past year or so, they would have found that most Chinese are reasonably happy with their lives. I would also like to know if anybody...
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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