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COMMENTARY

Feb 23, 2003

Iraq crisis increases risks for Musharraf

By Farhan Bokhari

ISLAMABAD -- Protesters marching in Pakistani streets during worldwide demonstrations last weekend against United States-led plans to attack Iraq have triggered fresh speculation about the South Asian country's future relations with Washington. Pakistan has been a key U.S. ally in the fight against terror...

COMMENTARY / World

Feb 23, 2003

As U.N. dithers, Australian divide grows

By Alan Goodall

SYDNEY -- A United Nations resolution of the Iraq crisis cannot come too soon for Australia. Each day of delay gnaws at the easygoing tolerance that marks the Australian lifestyle.

COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE

Feb 22, 2003

Antiwar fever rises as the economy sinks

By Bob Keefe

WASHINGTON -- Two big questions have dominated Washington this week. When will this horrible, cold winter end? And when will the war in Iraq begin? While they are different subjects with different consequences, they are getting about equal time in the capital's conversation content.

COMMENTARY

Feb 22, 2003

Best policy Seoul can buy?

By Brad Glosserman

HONOLULU -- The unmaking of a hero is never pretty, but the fall of South Korean President Kim Dae Jung has been especially ugly. The statesman leaves behind a shredded legacy and he, like many of his predecessors, is but one step ahead of the prosecutor. Even his Nobel Peace Price has been tarnished:...

COMMENTARY / World

Feb 22, 2003

Water issues loom large in the 21st century

By Libor Jansky

The third Water Forum is expected to play a critical role in solving water issues in the 21st century. The world's population is predicted to grow from six billion today to nearly nine billion by 2050, increasing pressure on local authorities and planners to supply water to satisfy growing agricultural...

COMMENTARY / World

Feb 21, 2003

Stand shoulder to shoulder with U.S.

The following is an unofficial translation of an appeal made Thursday by 39 members of the Japan Forum on International Relations. Related news story

COMMENTARY / World

Feb 20, 2003

Brinkmanship in spades 40 years later

By Richard Halloran

HONOLULU -- As the United States hurtles toward the brink of war with Iraq and North Korea, the confrontation bears a striking resemblance to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Therein lie lessons that might well be read in Washington, Baghdad and Pyongyang.

COMMENTARY

Feb 20, 2003

Farcical economic flip-flops

By Gregory Clark

Japan's economic debate has moved from the bizarre to the ridiculous. Just two years ago we were told that fiscal restraint was the key to economic recovery. Annual bond issues to finance government spending would not be allowed to exceed 30 trillion yen ($250 billion). In other words, cutting demand...

COMMENTARY

Feb 19, 2003

Missile defense is an offense

By Glyn Ford

BRUSSELS -- It is difficult to understand the Bush administration's determination to deploy a national missile defense system, or NMD. All test launches to date -- to prevent theoretical nuclear missile attacks -- have been either failures or "partial successes."

COMMENTARY / World

Feb 19, 2003

It's no longer just the economy, stupid

By Michael O'Hanlon and Aaron Moburg-Jones

WASHINGTON -- In recent weeks, as often in the past, many key Democrats have contributed importantly to American national-security debates. They have been trying to increase funding for homeland security efforts, prodding President George W. Bush to remain multilateral in his approach to Iraq even as...

COMMENTARY

Feb 18, 2003

Japan must shift to regional autonomy

By Kenzo Uchida

Elections are in Japan's forecast for this year -- nationwide local elections in April, the contest for the Liberal Democratic Party presidency in October and perhaps a general election for the House of Representative sometime in between -- with a strong possibility of political turbulence along the...

COMMENTARY / World

Feb 17, 2003

U.S. forces should go home

By David Wall

CAMBRIDGE, England -- In the recent presidential election in South Korea, candidate Roh Moo Hyun played to the populist tune when he called for U.S. troops to leave the country. This was a response to the highly emotional popular reaction to the deaths of two South Korean girls who were accidentally...

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

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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

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