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- 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
- Obama didn’t mention Hambali by name, but his case seems to embody all of the difficulties and contradictions of applying due process of law in what was once known as...
- The Hidden Truth About Tiananmen - June 3, 2009
- Yet for years many publications in Asia have shown an extreme reluctance to put the words “Tiananmen” and “massacre” together. My own magazine pussyfooted around...
- America's North Korean Military Options - May 29, 2009
- The time is 1970. This writer is a young Air Force lieutenant assigned to the 347th Tactical Fighter Wing at Yokota Air Base Japan, west of Tokyo. The 347th is equipped...
- Ozawa Quits, What Next for Japan? - May 12, 2009
- He was a protégé of ex-prime minister Kakuei Tanaka, Mister “money man” himself”, who often personified what critics felt was wrong about Japanese politics, and...
- Will Japan's Voters Dump Aso? - May 5, 2009
- A general election must be held by September, though some say it might be extended even into October so long as it takes place within 30 days of the expiration of the...
- The Siege of Zhongnanhai - April 28, 2009
- The Chinese Communist Party, for all its intelligence-gathering and security apparatus, did not have an clue of what was taking place until they woke up that bright...
- Thailand: Spanish Civil War Redux? - April 15, 2009
- Back to Spain. In 1931 the Spaniards adopted a new liberal constitution and enshrined strict separation of the monarchy and government. Similarly, Thailand adopted a...
- The Missile Fizzles of April - April 7, 2009
- It was always unclear whether these asserts would succeed in downing any rocket flotsam, not just because they are untried, but because the debris would be following an...
- Atomic Agency Candidates, a Study in Contrasts - March 25, 2009
- In 2005 the U.S. tried unsuccessfully to block ElBaradei’s re-election, but now that he is retiring, it has a far better chance of finding a more amenable director...
- Japan's Obsession with Abduction - March 14, 2009
- Kim was apprehended along with co-conspirator sent to South Korea, convicted and sentenced to death, only to receive a pardon on the grounds that she had been, in...
- Hillary Makes Her Rounds in Japan - February 18, 2009
- This in part goes back to ten years ago in 1998 when President Bill Clinton spent nine days in China without stopping by Japan, an event that Japanese remember as if it...
- Can Aso Rescue Beleaguered LDP? - February 13, 2009
- The most recent public opinion polls see the Aso cabinet’s popularity sinking to 14 percent, down from 19 percent in January. Other premiers have had even lower...
- 'Toyota Shock' May Sink Aso, LDP - January 10, 2009
- Just how serious things are getting came home to many Japanese in late December when Toyota Motor Corp, announced that it would suffer its first operating loss since the...
- The Year That Was in Asia - December 31, 2008
- Disasters in China and MyanmarMay was the cruelest month. On May 2, Cyclone Nargis hit the populous Irrawaddy Delta in the worst natural disaster in Myanmar’s recorded...
- Taiwan and Georgia - August 18, 2008
- Mainland China still considers Taiwan an integral part of its national territory. To my knowledge, Russia does not make similar claims to Georgia as a whole, although it...