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Jul 31, 2008

Better for China to allow journalists freedom

By Frank Ching

After long months of controversy, the Olympic Summer Games will finally open in Beijing next week. However, the world's eyes are on not the athletes but on the Chinese authorities and the way they handle protests, which will inevitably be held.

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 30, 2008

Is the NPT still effective?

By Bennett Ramberg

LOS ANGELES — Forty years ago this month, more than 50 nations gathered in the East Room of the White House to sign the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). In his memoirs, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson called it "the most significant step we had yet taken to reduce the possibility...

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 30, 2008

Nationalism isn't an issue in Japan

By Robert Dujarric

As Japan renews its claim on Takeshima (Dokdo to Koreans) and prepares to mark the Aug. 15 anniversary of the end of the Great East Asia War, we can expect more Asians — and some Americans — to warn against the dangers of rising Japanese nationalism. What is striking, however, is the absence of nationalism...

COMMENTARY

Jul 30, 2008

Radovan Karadzic falls victim to soft power

By Gwynne Dyer

Radovan Karadzic's disguise was elaborate, but he didn't spend the past 13 years hiding from the Serbian authorities. They knew where he was all along. Only 10 days after the government changed, the police plucked him off the bus that he rode to work every day and started the process of extraditing him...

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 30, 2008

The Muslim factor in India's foreign policy

By P.R. Kumaraswamy

PRAGUE — When communist leader M.K. Pandhe warned that Muslims would desert the Samajwadi Party if its leader Mulayam Singh Yadav supported the nuclear deal with the United States, a long-held taboo was broken. The Politburo member of India's largest communist party, the Communist Party of India (Marxist),...

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 29, 2008

Credit Sarkozy for working to revive a club

By Chris Patten

OXFORD, England — Maybe it is time to be a bit more generous to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and look at the outcome of what he does rather than the way he does it.

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 29, 2008

Reality of delisting North Korea

It may be premature to discuss the results of the recent six-party talks at this stage. One reason for that is that all observers agree that North Korea's nuclear report is not complete. No consensus has been reached on a method of verifying the credibility of the report.

COMMENTARY

Jul 29, 2008

New hope for overcoming autistic disorders

By Cesar Chelala

NEW YORK — Just published findings from Harvard Medical School and other U.S. institutions have shed new light on the genetic basis for autism.

COMMENTARY

Jul 28, 2008

EU, Japan should try to make up for lost time

By Glyn Ford

BRUSSELS — After the Cold War, in which Europe and Japan played subordinate political — and military — roles to Washington, the European Union and Japan found themselves in the position of being "economic giants" but "political dwarves."

COMMENTARY

Jul 28, 2008

Injustice of labor shortages

By Kiroku Hanai

One of America's virtues is its willingness to dispense candid advice even to its closest ally in the name of justice and humanitarianism. One good example is in recent comments by Dr. Mark P. Lagon, director of the U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 28, 2008

Believe it or not, Mugabe still has supporters

By John Edward Philips

HIROSAKI, Aomori Pref. — The world can't understand how Robert Mugabe has support left in Zimbabwe. After violence and intimidation against his opponents he was able to steal a victory, but at great cost. Why do his people put up with it and why did he gain over 40 percent of the vote in the first...

COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK

Jul 28, 2008

The U.S. Supreme Court's risible reasoning

By Hiroaki Sato

Laws are subject to interpretations, courts are official interpreters, and the Supreme Court has the last word. That is a fact of life, though it is also a fact of life that you sometimes wonder if there is anything "supreme" about the Supreme Court. Yes, you know that individual justices come with individual...

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.

A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan

By Hanako Lowry

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