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WAR

EDITORIALS
Jul 28, 2013
Key to Korean peace
The armistice that ended the Korean War 60 years ago has never brought real peace to the Peninsula. North Korea holds the key to make that happen.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 28, 2013
Obama: Korean War vets 'deserve better'
President Barack Obama praised veterans of the Korean War at a ceremony Saturday marking the anniversary of the armistice, using their return to an apathetic America decades ago as a promise to better care for the generation that is returning from distant battlefields today.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 27, 2013
Multiple perspectives in novel on the Russo-Japanese War
I asked a Japanese friend how he would characterize Shiba Ryotaro's famous historical novel, "Clouds Above the Hill." I've known its immense popularity, but Shiba had started its newspaper serialization after I left Japan in 1968, and the size of the finished work — six volumes in book form — had...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jul 27, 2013
Yasukuni Shrine: ground zero for unrepentant wartime remembrance
There is considerable speculation about whether Prime Minister Shinzo Abe intends to visit Yasukuni Shrine in mid-August. This is an especially sensitive time of the year as it coincides both with the annual Bon festival, when people honor their ancestors, and the anniversary of Japan's surrender in...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 25, 2013
Spirits linger in the trinkets of Hiroshima's dead
They say most people have one or more defining childhood incidents — something that sets the course of their adult life and molds their personality. Filmmaker Linda Hoaglund had one, and it was so striking that to this day she can still remember the flush on her face, the tingling of her skin and the...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 24, 2013
To avoid the currency wars
The global economy needs exchange rate coordination now to damp the possibility of 'currency wars' as countries seek to gain competitive advantage.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 15, 2013
Time running out for South Korean POWs still in North
Sixty years ago this month, a 21-year-old South Korean soldier named Lee Jae-won wrote a letter to his mother. He was somewhere in the middle of the peninsula, he wrote, and bullets were coming down like "raindrops." He said he was scared.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 8, 2013
Propaganda: artifice by design
The word "propaganda" derives its modern use from the name of a 17th-century Roman Catholic institution, the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, or Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. Established during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648, a sectarian conflict that devastated Europe following...
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2013
Finds raise toxic chemical suspicions at ex-Kadena site
The Okinawa Defense Bureau and the city of Okinawa uncover seven more barrels at a former U.S. base site that may have been used to hold toxic chemicals during the Vietnam War.
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.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 11, 2013
Five myths about the legalization of marijuana
With 16 U.S. states having decriminalized or legalized cannabis for non-medical use and eight more heading toward some kind of legalization, federal prohibition's days seem numbered.
COMMENTARY / World / COUNTERPOINT
Jun 9, 2013
Everything under heaven: Big China rattles region
China's neighbors may have half-believed Beijing's previous "smile diplomacy" and frequent reassurances that its rise posed no threat to regional peace and stability — but now everyone understands what hegemonic aspirations look like.

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