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COMMENTARY

Sep 2, 2002

It's time to arm America's airline pilots

By Doug Bandow

NEW YORK CITY - Nearly a year has passed since the worst act of terrorism in America's history. The World Trade Center site is clear, the sky above is empty. And fear of another deadly attack remains. A so-called miscommunication between pilot and air traffic controllers recently led the government to...

COMMENTARY / JAPAN IN THE GLOBAL ERA

Sep 2, 2002

Revival depends on openness, immigration

By Jean-pierre Lehmann

LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- The late Shigeto Tsuru's "Japan's Capitalism: Creative Defeat and Beyond," which I referred to and quoted in my Aug. 26 column, urged Japan to "work hard, through both aid and trade, to wipe out the poverty that plagues the Third World."

COMMENTARY

Sep 1, 2002

The need to lose individualit

By Sarah Benton

LONDON -- One week British citizens were worrying over whether we were going to war against Iraq and I was phoning all the antiwar organizations to find out what preparations they were making; the next, Britain was plunged into a collective horror of abducted children, citizenship had been washed away...

COMMENTARY

Sep 1, 2002

Taiwan's role in promoting democracy

By Ronald Meinardus

MANILA -- Due to mere numbers, the Taiwanese will always be the underdog in their dispute with China. Arguably, the most important advantage of the islanders in this confrontation is their domestic political order. In spite of constant partisan bickering, Taiwanese democracy may well be termed a source...

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 1, 2002

U.S. faces bigger issues than hitting Iraq

By Masamichi Hanabusa

In America, a military attack against Iraq to remove President Saddam Hussein from power seems to be a foregone conclusion. U.S. newspaper reports have been rife with various battle plans proposed by the generals.

COMMENTARY

Aug 31, 2002

Terrorism or simply war?

By Gregory Clark

Soon after last year's Sept. 11 attack on the United States by Islamic militants, I got into a debate with a hawkish member of the private consultative committee set up by then-Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka. He was demanding angrily that Japan should help eliminate something called global "terror."...

COMMENTARY / World

Aug 31, 2002

A new strategy for 'forgotten' Chernobyl

By Kenzo Oshima

Almost half a world away, in a remote corner of Ukraine, a routine safety experiment at a nuclear power station went terribly wrong in 1986, resulting in what in human history became universally recognizable by a single word: Chernobyl. Hiroshima and Nagasaki should never be repeated, and it is up to...

COMMENTARY / World / GUEST FORUM

Aug 31, 2002

Reactions to 9/11 as scary as the attacks

By Yuko Kawanishi

For my friend Azusa, it was supposed to be a long-waited vacation in New York City. Despite a big autumn typhoon, her Continental Air flight to Newark took off from Narita on time at 4 p.m. and she began to doze off, expecting a long flight to the East Coast as usual.

COMMENTARY

Aug 29, 2002

Taiwan ditching 'nice guy' diplomacy

By Frank Ching

Taiwanese Vice President Annette Lu was greeted triumphantly upon her return to Taiwan, but her trip to Indonesia yielded mixed results at best. Taiwan may well have raised expectations in Indonesia that it may not be able to fulfill. Moreover, China will now put renewed pressure on Southeast Asian countries...

COMMENTARY / World

Aug 29, 2002

Will Europe's left back a war on Iraq?

By Mark Leonard

LONDON -- In the black and white world of U.S. President George W. Bush, the European left is as soft as Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is evil. And the White House seems to be as uninterested in persuading the left to back a war in Iraq as they are in negotiating with the Iraqi leader about readmitting...

COMMENTARY

Aug 28, 2002

George W. Bush's two-faced foreign policy

By Brahma Chellaney

NEW DELHI -- Which country poses a serious threat because of its established links with international terrorism, proven program to develop weapons of mass destruction and close ties with other dictatorships in WMD-related matters? To a resident of New Delhi, the answer may be obvious: Pakistan, bristling...

COMMENTARY

Aug 28, 2002

'Sweet and sour' diplomacy

By Ralph Cossa

HONOLULU -- "U.S.-North Korean military meet to reduce tensions." "North Korea threatens to withdraw from nuclear agreement with U.S."

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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