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- Opening Salvo in Global War on Terror - March 24, 2010
- TOKYO - Kazumasu Takahashi, an assistant station master on the Chiyoda subway line in central Tokyo, was on duty when the 8:10 train pulled in on that Monday morning in...
- Japan's Troubles with Fish - March 22, 2010
- TOKYO - In recent weeks it often looked as if the entire marine world, or at least their self-appointed guardians, was ganging up on Japan. The country is under fire for...
- Tokyo's Long-Held Secrets Coming Out - March 12, 2010
- TOKYO - Details of secret agreements between Japan and the U.S. concerning deployment of nuclear weapons in Japanese territorial waters or over its air space have been...
- Japan's Policy Takes Back Seat to Scandal - January 31, 2010
- TOKYO -- The Japanese parliament, known as the Diet, convened last week the first session with the new government in charge and the once formidable Liberal Democratic...
- Japan's Election Puts World at Risk? - January 19, 2010
- TOKYO - The latest risk assessment from the Eurasia Group, a prominent international risk assessment consultancy, places Japan under its new government as No. 5 on its...
- China's Rise Marks Asia's Eventful Decade - January 1, 2010
- TOKYO - The incontestable Asian story of the decade is the rise of China to virtual global parity with the United States. Both in economic terms and increasingly in...
- Japan Obstructs Nuclear Disarmament - December 8, 2009
- TOKYO - To listen to disarmament specialists, the country that is raising the most serious obstacles to new moves to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in defense...
- Obama Sidesteps Touchy Okinawa Base Issue - November 15, 2009
- TOKYO - It might come under the category of something that couldn't have happened at a worse time. Less than one week before President Barack Obama arrived in Japan for...
- U.S. Base Relocation Tests Hatoyama - October 27, 2009
- TOKYO -- U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates last week staked out a hard line position over the relocation of the Futenma Marine Air Station in Okinawa to another...
- How Much Change from Japan's New Government? - October 23, 2009
- The new Japanese government, headed by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama was one month old on Friday Oct. 16. His Democratic party of Japan (DPJ) swept into power on a...
- Japan Is a Friend, Not an Ally - September 9, 2009
- TOKYO - There has been considerable handwringing in the Western press, especially among Americans, over the future of the U.S.-Japan military alliance under the new...
- Can Japan's LDP Survive Landslide Loss? - September 3, 2009
- TOKYO -- Spare a moment to reflect on the fate of Japan’s venerable Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as it surveys the wreckage from Sunday’s electoral tsunami...
- Why Japan's General Election Is Historic - August 25, 2009
- TOKYO -Japan's August 30 general election has been described a hundred times as being "historic". But while this has become a cliché, there is no other way to...
- Asia's Greatest Democrat - August 20, 2009
- TOKYO - Former U.S. President Richard Nixon, facing the possibility of prison after the Watergate scandal, mused that at least he would be in good company. Many of the...
- Bill Clinton: Super Agent - August 15, 2009
- TOKYO - One should not discount the intelligence value of former president Bill Clinton's recent visit to North Korea to help secure the release of two American...
- Japan's Schizophrenia Toward Nuclear Weapons - August 11, 2009
- TOKYO - The hot, muggy days of early August are a time when Japanese turn their thoughts to mushroom clouds. The dates August 6, and August 9 denote the atomic bombings...
- Koizumi's Feisty Daughters Fight On - July 29, 2009
- TOKYO - Four years ago they were called "assassins", but now they are known as "Koizumi's daughters". They are three women elected to Japan's Diet (parliament) on the...
- The Real Race Begins in Japan - July 11, 2009
- It is 6 a.m. in front of the railroad station in Musashi-Sakai, a western suburb of Tokyo, and Reiko Matsushita is already up and campaigning. She stands in front of the...
- Thailand Abuses Lese Majeste - July 8, 2009
- TOKYO - When I worked for Asiaweek Magazine in Hong Kong back in the 1990s, we published a feature called the “50 Most Powerful People in Asia”. In the first...
- North Korea Just Wants the 'Damn Bomb' - June 30, 2009
- TOKYO - In the movie Fat Man and Little Boy about the building of the atomic bomb, the late Paul Newman, playing Gen. Leslie Groves, administrator, of the Manhattan...
- North Korea Will Fight over Ships - June 20, 2009
- YOKOHAMA - Anyone who thinks that the North Koreans will sit back passively and allow their ships at sea to be stopped and searched for nuclear weapons or missile...
- Who Needs a Peace Treaty? - June 16, 2009
- On June 2, one day after General Motors went bankrupt, Japan’s Nissan Motor Corp. unveiled its new $200 million automobile assembly plant in St Petersburg with...
- What to Do About South Asia's Osama? - June 10, 2009
- TOKYO – If there is any prisoner at Guantanamo Bay who fits President Barack Obama’s definition of a detainee who cannot be effectively prosecuted but who is too...
- The Hidden Truth About Tiananmen - June 3, 2009
- The 1950 Japanese film Rashomon owes its enduring appeal to director Akira Kurosawa’s superb treatment of an ancient and universal theme: What is the truth? A samurai...
- America's North Korean Military Options - May 29, 2009
- It's often said in response to North Korea’s provocations, including its most recent testing of an atomic bomb, that the U.S. has no realistic military options. It is...
- Ozawa Quits, What Next for Japan? - May 12, 2009
- Ichiro Ozawa, who announced his resignation as leader of Japan’s main opposition, the Democratic Party of Japan (DJP), was always a strange figure to be an agent of...
- Will Japan's Voters Dump Aso? - May 5, 2009
- TOKYO -- If Japanese could choose for their next prime minister anyone in the world, they would undoubtedly pick US President Barack Obama or possibly Britain’s young...
- The Siege of Zhongnanhai - April 28, 2009
- Ten years ago ten thousand demonstrators converged on the walled compound in Beijing where China’s leaders live and work. They carried no signs or banners, and chanted...
- Thailand: Spanish Civil War Redux? - April 15, 2009
- Bangkok circa 2009 is looking more and more like Madrid circa 1936. That was the year that the bloody Spanish Civil War began, which lasted until 1939 and killed...
- The Missile Fizzles of April - April 7, 2009
- Japanese government officials must have privately breathed a sigh of relief that North Korea’s rocket launch this past weekend did not require any defensive action by...
- Atomic Agency Candidates, a Study in Contrasts - March 25, 2009
- TOKYO - During most of his twelve years in office, Mohamed ElBaradei, Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was a thorn in the side of President...
- Japan's Obsession with Abduction - March 14, 2009
- TOKYO - It has been more than 30 years since Megumi Yokota, a 13-year-old junior high school girl, was snatched by North Korean agents as she was walking home from...
- Hillary Makes Her Rounds in Japan - February 18, 2009
- The Japanese – well, the political elite and pundit class, anyway – breathed a collective sigh of relief when Hillary Clinton disembarked at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport...
- Can Aso Rescue Beleaguered LDP? - February 13, 2009
- TOKYO - Conventional wisdom, supported by terrifying opinion polls, says that Prime Minister Taro Aso and his beleaguered party are toast. When eventually Japan gets to...
- 'Toyota Shock' May Sink Aso, LDP - January 10, 2009
- TOKYO - Prime Minister Taro Aso postponed the general election that was widely assumed to follow soon after his election last September in order to concentrate on the...
- The Year That Was in Asia - December 31, 2008
- The biggest story in Asia in 2008 was the biggest story in the world, namely the global economic collapse. The accumulating evidence was too voluminous to summarize in a...
- Taiwan and Georgia - August 18, 2008
- It is fascinating, and instructive, to compare the U.S. actions, responses and machinations in Georgia with Taiwan. Both are relatively small countries, American...