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COMMENTARY / World

Nov 27, 2001

Beware quick fix for Japan

By Thomas G. Rawski

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania -- Beware of economists promising easy solutions for complex problems, in this case, Japan's painful and protracted slump following the collapse of inflated asset prices in 1989. Princeton economist Paul Krugman advises Japan's government to combat deflation by announcing official...

COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK

Nov 26, 2001

Looking back on life in Stalinist Russia

By Hiroaki Sato

NEW YORK -- My friend Lenore Parker threw a party for Mary M. Leder, who has just published her first book, at age 86. The book is an autobiography, "My Life in Stalinist Russia: An American Woman Looks Back" (Indiana University Press).

COMMENTARY

Nov 26, 2001

Japan set to jump the gun with SDF

By Kiroku Hanai

Since the Diet enacted antiterrorism legislation enabling the Self-Defense Forces to provide logistic support to the U.S.-led war efforts in Afghanistan, there have been mounting calls in Japan for expansion of the SDF's activities abroad. These moves defy Japan's war-renouncing Constitution.

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 26, 2001

U.S. is key to ending Israel's occupation

By Sam Bahour

AL-BIREH, West Bank -- The mirage of positive movement in the deadly gridlock between Israelis and Palestinians continued last week, uninterrupted by reality. Following U.S. President George Bush's footsteps, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, during a major Middle East policy address at the University...

COMMENTARY

Nov 26, 2001

Freedom in the line of fire

By Hugh Cortazzi

WASHINGTON -- The first priority for all our governments must be the elimination of terrorism, but in the process we must do what we can to preserve our basic freedoms and human rights.

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 25, 2001

Income disparity vs. growth

By Ramesh Thakur

U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan reminded the world recently that the battle against terrorism might have displaced front-page news, but it has not solved pressing problems such as poverty and HIV/AIDS. The international community remains formally committed to the goal of reducing the level of poverty...

COMMENTARY

Nov 24, 2001

German lessons for Korea

By Ronald Meinardus

SEOUL -- Koreans have come to cherish Germany's experiences, as many see this country's unification saga as an important, if not the most important, point of reference. Korea's unification will probably be more difficult and complex than Germany's unification in October 1990. Koreans have one major advantage,...

COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE

Nov 24, 2001

U.S. civil liberties a needless war casualty

By Bob Keefe

WASHINGTON -- Support for U.S. President George W. Bush and his handling of the war effort remains high, and the military success will help maintain this support level. Bush is testing his popular support regularly here at home as he pushes to implement his conservative legislative agenda, which is meeting...

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 24, 2001

WTO entry to change Chinese livelihoods

By David Wall

CAMBRIDGE, England -- So they finally made it. China has been admitted to the World Trade Organization. And so has Taiwan. Now that the bilateral and multilateral negotiations are over and China's trade partners have extracted all that they were able to in concessions from the new member, the fun begins....

COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW

Nov 24, 2001

Putin seizes the moment

By Constantine Pleshakov

Russian President Vladimir Putin is a very lucky man. Instead of running a Russian spy network in some sleepy Central European country, as his training and career once suggested he would, he skyrocketed to the top position in the Kremlin. There, inexperienced and vulnerable, he faced not the consolidated...

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 22, 2001

Imperial Navy doctor's wartime diary opens a window to the nation's past

By Edward R. Beauchamp

In World War II, the only U.S. soil to be captured by the Japanese Imperial Army was the so-called Outer Aleutians. Located approximately equidistant between Los Angeles and Tokyo, the unopposed seizure in June, 1942, of the barren and virtually unpopulated islands of Kiska and Attu in the Bering Sea...

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 22, 2001

Protecting the public from the threats of terror and depression

By Michael L. Lahr and Hiroshi Ohta

In his Sept. 30 New York Times article, "The Fear Economy," MIT economist Paul Krugman warned that the American public should be prepared for a possible deflationary spiral comparable to the Great Depression of the 1930s and Japan's milder but chronic depression of the 1990s. A major depression could...

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.

If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami

By Alex K.T. Martin

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