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WAR

COMMENTARY / World
May 26, 2014
A memorial to horror and honor
More fitting than any commentary about Memorial Day, just celebrated in the U.S., is the description of Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox to Ulysses S. Grant, which ended the Civil War.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 25, 2014
Decisive battle looms for Syrian rebels in Aleppo
High spring in Syria's largest city and the final battle has arrived. From his vantage point on a front line in Aleppo's northeast, Abu Bilal, a rebel commander, had spent the past month staring at a ridge line about a kilometer away that marked the closest Syrian military position.
COMMENTARY / World
May 19, 2014
Double-edged legacy of LBJ's War on Poverty
The American Enterprise Institute's Nicholas Eberstadt wonders if it's simply a coincidence that male 'flight from work' and family breakdown have coincided with the Great Society policies instituted 50 years ago.
WORLD
May 18, 2014
Syria's air defense chief killed near Damascus, rebels and activists say
The head of Syria's Air Defense Force has been killed in fighting east of Damascus, an Islamist rebel coalition and a monitoring group said on Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
May 18, 2014
Icho's ethnic vitality poses future model for Japan
If Japan throws its doors open to immigrants it might start looking like a certain neighborhood in Yokohama with multilingual street signs, ethnic eateries, and a babel of languages spoken in the streets.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 4, 2014
Refugees tell of Syrian brutality
Lugging a plastic bag carrying the clothes and the few food scraps she could salvage, Umm Samir set out from her ruined home and crawled through the pre-dawn gloom on her second journey into exile in 68 years.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2014
Lest we forget LBJ's amazing side
Watching Robert Schenkkan's new Broadway play, 'All the Way,' is likely to remind people of how their views of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson changed during the Vietnam War era.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 28, 2014
Syria misses self-imposed deadline for destroying chemical arms
Syria appeared to have missed a self-imposed deadline to get rid of all its chemical weapons by April 27, as the United Nations announced that more than 92 percent of the arsenal had been shipped out of the country or destroyed.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 24, 2014
China chlorine suspected in new Syrian gas attacks
China's Foreign Ministry said it is investigating reports that a chlorine canister bearing the name of the country's biggest arms maker was shown in footage believed to document a gas attack in Syria this month.
Japan Times
JAPAN / TELLING LIVES
Apr 22, 2014
Ex-refugee uses own experiences to help others
As a former refugee who was forced to leave his own country during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, Iranian-born Sena Vafa hopes to raise awareness about the plight of refugees here in Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 22, 2014
Syria calls presidential vote for June; opponents slam plan as a 'parody of democracy'
Syria announced Monday a presidential election for June 3, preparing the ground for President Bashar Assad to defy widespread opposition and extend his grip on power, days after he said the civil war is turning in his favor.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Apr 19, 2014
Dresden cashes in on German unification
American novelist Kurt Vonnegut, a prisoner of war in Dresden during World War II, has a scene in "Slaughterhouse Five" where time-traveling hero Billy Pilgrim sees the city's firebombing in reverse, with phosphorous bombs sucked back into warplanes.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 17, 2014
Tortured POW meets his Japanese tormentor
"He is most interested in having contact with you for he has lived with many unanswered questions all these years, questions to which perhaps only you can help him to find the answers." So wrote Patricia Lomax in a letter sent from her home in England to Takashi Nagase, who at the time lived in Okayama...
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 13, 2014
In Assad's coastal heartland, Syrian conflict creeps closer
For three years, residents of Syria's Mediterranean provinces have watched from their coastal sanctuary as civil war raging further inland tore the country apart, killing tens of thousands of people and devastating historic cities.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 6, 2014
Don't let Cold War warriors reboot their dated thinking
The hundred think tanks that bloomed, and the thousands of mediocre academics and pseudo-experts who found easy employment in the universities and the media, feel obliged to make themselves relevant and important again after Russian President Vladimir Putin's land grab. Don't let them reboot the Cold War.

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