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Catherine Bennett
For Catherine Bennett's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Aug 9, 2013
Sex addiction? Sorry, chaps, it's just plain old lust
Candidate Anthony Weiner is unlikely ever to trouble British voters, that is not to say Weiner can be filed away, with complete confidence, under the category "U.S. politicians who have incautiously disseminated images of their private parts, using the alter ego Carlos Danger." For one thing, given the reach of social media, and the man's irrepressible ambition, it must only be a matter of time — unless some sort of technology can be invented to block transmission — before a young British subject, switching on her telephone, suddenly finds that she is Carlos Danger's latest penis pen-pal.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 22, 2013
Greenpeace's Shard stunt may not help its cause
Greenpeace's staged scaling of central London's Shard skyscraper makes one wonder if the environmental organization might be even more effective if it grew up.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Mar 16, 2013
How can the royal family champion women and endorse Saudi Arabia?
In its latest human rights report, not a great read, the United Kingdom's House of Commons foreign affairs committee wondered if the government attitude to "countries of concern" isn't a wee bit too "low key." Britain's relations with Saudi Arabia, for instance, would benefit from a "bolder" approach, whereby ministers somehow acknowledged, if only for appearances' sake, the contradiction between — I paraphrase — a notional distaste for torture and the regular prostrations required if influential torturers are to shop British for their weapons.

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High-end tourism is becoming more about the kinds of experiences that Japan's lesser-known places can provide.
Can Japan lure the jet-set class off the beaten path?