Economy | ANALYSIS
Households to take hit from tax hike
by Tomoko Otake
The consumption tax increase will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people’s financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the hike's impact.
Global-related Sep 17, 2013
Obama didn't sell war hard enough
by Ted Rall
War is what America does best, war is what America does most. So why couldn't U.S. President Barack Obama get public support for a strike on Syria
Global-related Sep 6, 2013
Breaking bad: Why a U.S. strike would be illegal
by Ted Rall
U.S. President Barack Obama and the other warmongers are counting on ignorance and confusion to make their case for an attack on Syria.
History Aug 14, 2013
Memories of war's victims, victimizers
by Keiji Hirano
A freelance photojournalist has recorded the individual histories of 70 survivors of the war at home and abroad to show how they acted during wartime and how their experiences affected the rest of their lives. “I wanted to record the testimonies of war survivors ...
Japan-related Apr 3, 2013
War with China is not inevitable, so tread carefully
by Michael Sutton
America's path plus China's immature ambitions threaten Japan's future. Japanese constitutional change would just add to uncertainty in the region.
Politics & Diplomacy Mar 9, 2013
Kim pays visit to army unit that shelled South Korea in 2010
With tensions surging on the Korean Peninsula, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un talked of “all-out war” as he toured a frontline unit that shelled the South in 2010, state media said Friday. Visiting two islands close to the disputed maritime border with South ...
Politics & Diplomacy Mar 8, 2013
Wartime diplomat deplored Japan's backward encryption tech
A Japanese diplomat wrote shortly after World War II that Japan’s theoretical and technical knowhow on encrypting sensitive information was woefully underdeveloped during the hostilities, declassified diplomatic records Thursday showed. Kazuji Kameyama, who had previously headed the telegram division of the Foreign Ministry, wrote ...
Art Feb 14, 2013
Driven to shoot on the frontlines
by C.B. Liddell
The camera never lies — or does it? The double-barreled exhibition now on at the Yokohama Museum of Art suggests that it doesn’t always tell the truth either. “Two Photographers: Robert Capa Centennial/ Gerda Taro Retrospective” is a time-traveling trip back to the middle ...