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JAPAN
Dec 25, 2010

Kan taps Tachiagare as an ally

Prime Minister Naoto Kan has unofficially asked Tachiagare Nippon (Sunrise Party of Japan), a minor opposition force, to join the ruling bloc, a Tachiagare Nippon executive said Friday.
COMMENTARY
Dec 21, 2010

Wave-spectrum yard sale shadows Singh

CHENNAI, India — India may well be a case of two vastly different stories. One is a grand tale of its phenomenal success, while the other shocks and scandalizes you.
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Dec 19, 2010

Cheap imitations from Osaka, Communists arrested, Japan resumes own air defense, young becoming selfish

100 YEARS AGOFriday, Dec. 16, 1910
EDITORIALS
Dec 17, 2010

Mr. Kan to open floodgates

Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Wednesday decided not to appeal a Dec. 6 Fukuoka High Court ruling that called for opening two floodgates, north and south, of the dike in Isahaya Bay.
Japan Times
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Dec 16, 2010

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JAPAN
Dec 16, 2010

Kan will let stand ruling to open Isahaya floodgates

Reversing the government's stance on a decades-old reclamation project, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Wednesday he won't appeal a court order to open two floodgates in the Isahaya Bay dike in Nagasaki Prefecture for five years.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 16, 2010

Is open diplomacy possible or even desirable?

PRINCETON, New Jersey — When the furor erupted over WikiLeaks' recent release of a quarter-million diplomatic cables, I was reminded of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's 1918 speech in which he put forward "Fourteen Points" for a just peace to end World War I.

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