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COMMENTARY / World

Sep 27, 2012

Roots of Japan-China rivalry

By Liah Greenfeld

The anti-Japan protests that continue to roil China are just another indication of the rise of a potent Chinese nationalism. After a century slowly fomenting among Chinese intellectuals, national sentiment has captured and redefined the consciousness of the Chinese people during the last two decades...

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 27, 2012

Obama's first-term regrets raise serious concerns

By Jennifer Rubin

Maybe it was simple pandering when U.S. President Barack Obama told an interviewer at the Spanish-language TV network Univision that his biggest failure was in not getting comprehensive immigration reform. But, come to think of it, wasn't it equally weird to name "failing to change the tone in Washington"...

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 26, 2012

Hard truths about global growth

By Michael Spence

The world's high-income countries are in economic trouble, mostly related to growth and employment, and now their distress is spilling over to developing economies. What factors underlie today's problems, and how appropriate are the likely policy responses?

COMMENTARY

Sep 26, 2012

Why shouldn't pols treat voters like grownups?

By George Will

In every year divisible by four, the dominant superstition of American politics — faith in the magic of presidential words and deeds — reaches an apogee that feeds national narcissism: Everything that happens anywhere is about us, is a response to something America did or did not do, and can be controlled...

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 26, 2012

Transforming how India addresses its problems

By Esther Dyson

Last month, I visited the Jaipur Foot clinic in New Delhi. You may have heard of the Jaipur Foot. It is both an invention — a prosthetic foot made from cheap materials costing about $45 (versus $8,000 for a similar device in the United States) — and an amazing, low-cost network of clinics around...

COMMENTARY / Japan

Sep 26, 2012

Nuclear crisis lowers curtain on Japan's Confucian politics

By Shaun O'Dwyer

Around 25 years ago it was fashionable to portray Japan's economic system as an alternative to Anglo-Saxon capitalism. Japan's success, it was said, was based on its unique business models, its state-guided capitalism — and on the Confucian values it had inherited from China.

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 25, 2012

Censorship by riot puts West on slippery slope

By Charles Lane

Last Wednesday, Charlie Hebdo, a French satire magazine, published cartoons that nastily mock the Prophet Muhammad, and European governments immediately feared more violence like the murder and arson at U.S. diplomatic installations that followed the appearance of a crude video about Muhammad. France...

COMMENTARY

Sep 24, 2012

Leadership for a nuclear weapons-free world

By Ramesh Thakur

In a world beset by many grave problems that threaten to unleash a perfect storm at short notice, many people bemoan the dearth of responsible and high-quality leadership to point the way forward to a more prosperous, peaceful and just future.

COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE

Sep 24, 2012

Power industry campaigns to pull the plug on the DPJ

Japan's electric power industry is using its political clout to help candidates who are sympathetic to its cause win seats in the Lower House. The next general election of the Diet chamber is rumored to take place as early as this autumn.

COMMENTARY

Sep 24, 2012

Gaffe calls welfare of candidacy into question

By Robert J. Samuelson

It is a measure of Mitt Romney's inadequacies as a candidate that he has not been able to turn his latest gaffe — his dismissive reference to the 47 percent of Americans who "are dependent upon government" — into a teachable moment and a campaign advantage.

COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK

Sep 24, 2012

An ominously familiar Japanese contemporary

By Hiroaki Sato

Things do sometimes go backward.

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 24, 2012

Secret of success for the top-rated universities

By Shailendra Raj Mehta

No country dominates any industry as much as the United States dominates higher education. According to Shanghai Jiao-Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities, for example, 17 of the world's 20 best universities are American, with Harvard topping the list by a substantial margin.

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.

That sinking feeling: Japan’s aging sewers are an infrastructure time bomb

By Alex K.T. Martin

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