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EDITORIALS

Mar 15, 2014

Good year to sell to the mega-rich

The number of individuals in the world with $30 million or more in net assets increased between 2012 and 2013 to 167,000 worldwide, according to a report used by high-end specialty services that cater to the mega-rich.

COMMENTARY

Mar 15, 2014

Special Asian wisdom for skating on thin ice

By Tom Plate

Olympic skater Kim Yuna's classy, gracious performance, on and off the ice, at Sochi — even as her fellow Korean countrymen complained that she had been robbed of the gold medal for women's figure skating — makes her a model in sports and in East Asian politics.

COMMENTARY / Japan

Mar 14, 2014

Culture of safety can make or break nuclear power plants

By Najmedin Meshkati and Airi Ryu

On the third anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami and its devastating impact on Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima nuclear power plants, we need to understand why Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s Onagawa Nuclear Power Station — which was even closer to the quake epicenter — had a drastically different fate.

COMMENTARY / World

Mar 14, 2014

Rand Paul is Republicans' isolated isolationist

By Ramesh Ponnuru

As Republicans start to debate foreign policy in advance of the 2016 election, it's shaping up to be a fight between Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul and everyone else. Until recently, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas was on Paul's side, but that close relationship is fraying.

COMMENTARY / World

Mar 14, 2014

To achieve peace, the past must not be forgotten

By William Pfaff

The past must never be forgotten when trying to make peace between Ukraine and Russia. The U.S. risks war with Russia if it can't adjust the same reckless sentiments responsible in recent years for promoting NATO membership for Ukraine.

EDITORIALS

Mar 14, 2014

Death knell of the XP system

Microsoft Corp. will end all support services for its XP operating system on April 8. After that, individual and business users who don't switch to a newer system will be left to their own devices in protecting their computers from hackers and viruses.

COMMENTARY / World

Mar 14, 2014

Will Putin's Crimea gamble backfire?

By Robert Samuelson

Although Russia could acquire Crimea, Russian President Vladimir Putin might not be able to keep Ukraine in Moscow's economic orbit. The crisis might have accelerated Ukraine's reorientation westward.

EDITORIALS

Mar 14, 2014

Will pay hikes become a trend?

The pay raises offered by leading Japanese firms this week are an encouraging sign that some companies, at least, are translating better corporate earnings posted the past year into higher wages for workers — thanks partly to unusual government pressures put on management.

COMMENTARY / Japan

Mar 14, 2014

Japan should make disaster the mother of invention

By James Gibney

In the decades since World War II ended, Japan has repeatedly demonstrated its technological genius. So why does it treat the 3-year-old Fukushima nuclear tragedy as a farce by pushing to reopen many of its 48 commercial reactors instead of driving to achieve sustainable energy self-sufficiency?

COMMENTARY / World

Mar 14, 2014

How about better health through good choices?

By George Will

The premise that health is the product of medicine leads the U.S. government to believe it can deliver health by judiciously distributing preventive or therapeutic medicines rather than disseminate cost-effective public health information.

COMMENTARY / Japan

Mar 13, 2014

China waging psychological warfare in the East China Sea

By Masahiro Matsumura

Japanese and Western news reports suggest that the U.S. bombers and routine Japanese patrol fighters that flew into China's air-defense identification zone right after the ADIZ was proclaimed did not encounter any Chinese interceptors or radar beams.

EDITORIALS

Mar 13, 2014

State secrets law fatally flawed

Japan should hold off on putting the state secrets law into effect until it addresses the need for an oversight mechanism for how secrets are designated as well as a means to protect whistleblowers.

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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