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COMMENTARY

Jul 27, 2005

Calculating the costs of climate change

By David Howell

LONDON -- People who arrive at parties that are in full swing, and then ask who is paying and how much the party costs, are usually regarded as party poopers who should either keep their views to themselves or withdraw.

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 26, 2005

New Delhi and Washington grow closer

By Gautaman Bhaskaran

MADRAS, India -- It seems that India and the United States are finally on the same side. After years of mutual suspicion during the Cold War -- when New Delhi veered toward Moscow and Washington played the China card -- Indo-American relations appear set to follow a mature path and agenda.

COMMENTARY

Jul 26, 2005

Cutting butter with a saw?

By Takamitsu Sawa

The 2005 government white paper on the Japanese economy and public finances, which the Cabinet cleared earlier this month, has a chapter titled "From Public to Private: Restructuring the Government Sector and Its Challenges." It makes the following points:

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 25, 2005

When will China's miracle hit the wall?

By Christopher Lingle

PHILADELPHIA -- U.S. "Fed" Governor Ben Bernanke has blamed net inflows of capital from the rest of the world, especially China, for a global savings glut that is driving up the U.S. current account deficit. Unfortunately, some commentators have echoed this seemingly plausible but outrageously silly...

COMMENTARY

Jul 25, 2005

Condoleezza Rice's unfortunate decision

By Ralph Cossa

HONOLULU -- The recent decision by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to skip the annual ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) ministerial-level dialogue this Friday in Vientiane represents a setback for U.S. efforts to persuade Southeast Asians that Washington really cares about their region. Rice plans...

COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK

Jul 25, 2005

Depredation of species that get in our way

By Hiroaki Sato

NEW YORK -- "Protected Birds Are Back, With a Vengeance: Cormorants Take Over, Making Some Enemies." This headline in the New York Times earlier this month, inset in a photo showing a few black birds atop a tree, struck me with the thought: So it has come to pass. Hadn't the same daily some years back...

COMMENTARY

Jul 25, 2005

Britain's tolerance put to test

By Hugh Cortazzi

LONDON -- The British government has backed the development of a multicultural and multiethnic society, and has accepted, if not promoted, multilingual communities. Until quite recently Britain welcomed immigrants and asylum seekers. These policies have made British society in the last half century much...

COMMENTARY

Jul 25, 2005

Threshold of a lower threat

By Keizo Nabeshima

The fourth round of six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear-arms programs opens Tuesday in Beijing. The question is whether the talks will succeed in convincing the North to halt its nuclear-arms development, which poses a serious security threat to Northeast Asia. For Japan, the United States, South...

COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT

Jul 24, 2005

Strangelove encounters of a MAD scientist kind

By Roger Pulvers

Herman Kahn is back in the news.

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 24, 2005

End of the 'calm' for Israel, Palestinians

By Gwynne Dyer

LONDON -- Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called for a "period of calm" when he took over the late Yasser Arafat's job in January, and for a while some people allowed themselves to believe that peace was within reach. But that delusion depended on the belief that Arafat had been the main obstacle to...

COMMENTARY

Jul 24, 2005

Selling evil without a cause

By Gregory Clark

If British Prime Minister Tony Blair wants to prevent more London bombings, he needs to come up with some better arguments to condemn Islamic militancy. His claim that Britain confronts an "evil ideology" was both naive and foolish.

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 23, 2005

Coming in from the cold

By Glyn Ford

BRUSSELS -- In a vital move toward securing greater stability, North Korea announced last week it would return to the six-party talks in Beijing with the United States, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia to try to resolve the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula. The breakdown in negotiations had...

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Japan's growing ranks of centenarians are redefining what it means to live in a super-aging society.

What comes after 100?

By Tomoko Otake

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Fujitsu crafts sustainable innovation for itself, society

Fujitsu crafts sustainable innovation for itself, society

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