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CARTOONS / NOODLES

Sep 2, 2012

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 1, 2012

Putin's bad neighbor policy reaps poor harvest

By Anders Aslund

Russia has shown itself to be an international spoiler with its ardent support for Syrian President Bashar Assad. The contrast with its benign policy toward Libya in 2011 reflects how Russian foreign policy changed with the return of Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin. On foreign policy, at least, Russia's...

EDITORIALS

Sep 1, 2012

Rising grain prices

Irregular weather conditions are causing prices of grains such as corn, wheat and soybeans to shoot up. The most vulnerable people in this situation are the poor in developing countries that rely heavily on food imports. Officials of international organizations such as the United Nations and the World...

EDITORIALS

Sep 1, 2012

The blame for Diet paralysis

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and the ruling Democratic Party of Japan bear primary responsibility for the current paralytic political situation — the virtual stoppage of Diet deliberations after a censure motion against Mr. Noda passed in the opposition-controlled Upper House Wednesday.

COMMENTARY

Aug 31, 2012

Pawns of the neo-Putin era

By Andrey Borodaevskiy

After the May 7 inauguration of Vladimir Putin, the re-elected Russian president rapidly began taking revenge on those who caused him anxiety from December to March. Of late, he and his henchmen have demonstrated a sharp stance against dissent and opposition in general.

COMMENTARY / World

Aug 31, 2012

Ten myths about the U.S. Republican agenda

By Jennifer Rubin

There are a lot of pundits here in Tampa with no real politics to report on. So I thought now would be a good idea to do some explaining about the odd natives (well, natives for only a few days), whom the punditocracy has ventured out to poke and prod and report back, as if they are 21st-century Margaret...

EDITORIALS

Aug 31, 2012

Diet business at an impasse

Diet business has reached paralysis as the opposition forces on Wednesday passed a censure motion against Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda. Following passage of the motion, the opposition forces plan to boycott all the deliberations in both houses of the Diet on bills submitted by the government.

EDITORIALS

Aug 30, 2012

3/11 deaths that were preventable

On Aug. 21, the Reconstruction Agency in charge of reconstructing areas hit by the 3/11 disasters released a report on deaths that occurred during or after evacuation from the disasters, including the nuclear crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. It does not touch...

COMMENTARY / World

Aug 30, 2012

U.S. presidential election needs another Teddy

By Harold Meyerson

What America feared above all was the growing concentration of wealth and political power. A Republican alliance with big business had flooded election campaigns with torrents of money, and it threatened to reduce — if not eliminate — whatever influence ordinary Americans had with their elected officials....

COMMENTARY

Aug 30, 2012

Going to the moon still matters

By Gwynne Dyer

When the first man on the moon died Saturday, U.S. President Barack Obama tweeted: "Neil Armstrong was a hero not just of his time, but of all time." Armstrong's final comment on Obama, on the other hand, was that the president's policy on manned space flight was "devastating," adding that it condemned...

CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN

Aug 30, 2012

EDITORIALS

Aug 30, 2012

London Paralympics starts

The London 2012 Paralympics starts Thursday (Wednesday local time) with some 4,300 physically disabled athletes from 166 countries and regions taking part in 20 sports. From Japan, 135 athletes will participate in 17 sports. It is hoped that the Paralympics, which will continue through Sept. 9, will...

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.

The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight

By Mai Yoshikawa

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