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EDITORIALS
Nov 26, 2010
NATO's new look
Every 10 years, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization reassesses the world and its place in it and forges a new mission statement that tries to align the institution, its members and their desire to create a more peaceful and stable world. This year, that effort has yielded a "new strategic concept"...
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Nov 26, 2010
Highhanded prosecutors get judicial pat on the back
The arrogance and self-complacence of public prosecutors have been exposed with the acquittal of a high-ranking former welfare ministry official who had been indicted on a charge of forgery, and the subsequent arrest and indictment of two prosecutors accused of hiding evidence of data tampering. The...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 25, 2010
Senator playing politics with nuclear accord
By David Krieger
WASHINGTON — Soon after U.S. President Barack Obama came to office, he delivered a speech in Prague in which he said, "I state clearly and with conviction America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons." He said America has a responsibility to act and to lead....
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Nov 25, 2010
Monopoly Wall
EDITORIALS
Nov 25, 2010
Bolster waste-cutting effort
The Kan administration's Government Revitalization Unit on Nov. 18 ended the second part of a third round of budget screening. In the first part held in October, the body screened 48 programs in eight special account budgets, which are almost unknown to the public. In the second part, it re-examined...
EDITORIALS
Nov 25, 2010
North Korea's provocation
North Korea's artillery attack on South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island on Tuesday is a dangerous provocation that must be condemned. The international community should unite and pressure North Korea to refrain from carrying out further provocations. Both Pyongyang and Seoul should exercise self-restraint...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 25, 2010
China and India exposed
By Pranab Bardhan
BERKELEY, Calif. — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's forthcoming trip to India, following hard on the heels of President Barack Obama's recent visit, will provide another opportunity for the media to gush about the growing global economic clout of China and India. We can be sure that the soft underbellies...
COMMENTARY
Nov 25, 2010
Surviving the currency competition
By Shinji Fukukawa
The yen's exchange value is considered likely to top the rate of ¥79.75 to the dollar registered in 1995 for an all-time high sooner or later. At a meeting that ended Oct. 23, Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors managed to contain the confrontation between the advanced economies...
COMMENTARY
Nov 25, 2010
Let's hope Obama wins New START gamble
By Cesar Chelala
NEW YORK — President Barack Obama's decision to press for ratification of the New START treaty between Russia and the United States is one that will have a lasting influence on the rest of his presidency.
COMMENTARY
Nov 24, 2010
TPP zone will test commitment to free trade
By Michael Richardson
SINGAPORE — China is outpacing the United States and Japan as Asia's top trading partner. Can Washington and Tokyo make up lost ground in the competition for economic influence that is shaping future geopolitical alignments and institutional architecture in the region?
EDITORIALS
Nov 24, 2010
Pyongyang's new centrifuges
Mr. Siegfried Hecker, former chief of the U.S. Los Alamos National Laboratory, said Saturday that he saw "more than a thousand" centrifuges to enrich uranium and an "ultramodern control room" at a plant at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex when he visited there Nov. 12. North Korea told him and...
COMMENTARY
Nov 24, 2010
Always expect the unexpected in politics
By Tom Plate
LOS ANGELES — Sometimes truly strange things happen in life. For those of us on America's West Coast, who would have thought that Jerry Brown would become governor of California again? His first time out as our chief state executive (in his 30s, and full of rather unconventional ideas), they called...
Why did such a powerful earthquake produce such a weak tsunami?
A person records images of waves following a tsunami advisory generated by local authorities after an earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, prompting warnings and evacuations stretching across at the South Pacific, in Vina del Mar, Chile, on Wednesday.
Last soldiers of Imperial Japanese Army have a warning for younger generations
Kunshiro Kiyozumi, 97, who was the youngest crew member of the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-58 in World War II, on his way to a restaurant to have lunch in Matsuyama, Japan, on April 29.
Japanese students struggle with description-type tests
The average correct answer rate for description-type questions in the Japanese-language section of the fiscal 2025 national achievement test for third-year junior high school students was as low as 25.6%, according to the education ministry.
Severe Tropical Storm Krosa approaches eastern Japan
Severe Tropical Storm Krosa is expected to pass east of the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture on Saturday morning.
Japan's jobs-to-applicant ratio falls to 1.22 in June
Japan's seasonally adjusted effective job-to-applicant ratio dipped to 1.22 in June, down 0.02 point from the previous month, according to the labor ministry.
Junglia brought dinos back to Okinawa. But will it bring tourists?
At Panorama Dining, one of Junglia’s two proper restaurants that also doubles as the rooftop Inifinity Terrace overlook, guests can pay extra to sit in balcony tables made to look like birds’ nests overlooking the park grounds.
Coordination office marks first step in U.S. Forces Japan’s shift to ‘warfighting’ command
U.S., Japanese and Australian staff work in the JJOC Cooperation Team office at the U.S. Army’s Hardy Barracks in central Tokyo in this image posted to the Australian Embassy's X account on July 25.
GTN takes a chance on newcomers to Japan
Hiroyuki Goto, president of GTN. The company started after Goto personally co-signed leases for around 20 non-Japanese people, including some friends and friends of friends.
Artist Chiharu Shiota weaves a hidden marvel on Teshima
“Memory of Lines” is Chiharu Shiota’s second art installation on Teshima as part of the Setouchi Triennale.
How the Japanese TV industry is changing
Fuji TV headquarters in Tokyo's Minato Ward. Fuji TV came under fire over the manner in which it handled a case of “sexual trouble” involving former boy band member Masahiro Nakai and a female announcer.

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