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Nick Cohen
For Nick Cohen's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 1, 2014
The cost of corporate kowtowing to Beijing
American general interest family magazine, Reader's Digest, is alleged to have censored stories for its worldwide English edition to maintain a cheap printing deal in China.
COMMENTARY
Dec 27, 2013
Putin outflanking the West
In 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin made U.S. President Barack Obama look like a conman's stooge — a lame duck president so weak that he can barely waddle to the pond.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Oct 5, 2013
Revealing the absurdity of the global nuclear arms race
In the 1980s, I joined the crowds of anti-nuclear demonstrators, driven into a state of terror by the last years of the Cold War. Ronald Reagan, a man we held to be a warmonger and a religious fanatic, had matched the deployment of short-range missiles in Eastern Europe with short-range missiles in Western Europe.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 5, 2013
Hate pornography, sure, but be wary of banning it
Prosecutions for the possession of the filthiest pornography confirm foreigners' suspicions that the British care more for animals than people. Between 2008 and 2011, the English and Welsh authorities charged 1,922 men for having images of bestiality about their person. By contrast, they brought only 310 prosecutions for possession of pornography that simulated serious or life-threatening injury on members of the human species. For necrophilia, they managed four. And there have been no prosecutions at all of those who downloaded images of rape.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 12, 2013
Syria bleeds as West watches
The only proper response to those who fret about 'where do you stop?' if the international community intervenes in the Syrian conflict is 'when do you start
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Apr 14, 2013
Hobsbawm's last words
FRACTURED TIMES: Culture and Society in the 20th Century, by Eric Hobsbawm. Little, Brown, 2013, 336 pp., £25 (hardcover)
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 20, 2008
Tyranny will be the biggest winner at the Beijing Games
LONDON — At the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics, spectators will watch as athletes from the worst regimes on the planet parade by. Whether they are from dictatorships of the left or right, secular or theocratic, they will have one thing in common: the hosts of the games that, according to the mission statement, are striving "for a bright future for mankind" will support their oppressors.

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