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COMMENTARY
Jul 6, 2003

Iraqi case far from hopeless with time, creative thinking

LONDON -- Iraq is not Afghanistan. It is necessary to repeat this obvious point because the impression has been growing that occupied Iraq, like occupied Afghanistan, is a murderous and lawless stew of rival factions and impoverished tribes and factions, where democracy and stable government are impossible...
COMMENTARY
Jul 4, 2003

Does irrelevancy await Japan?

HONOLULU -- Japan-U.S. relations are at a postwar high, "the best they have ever been," report policymakers on both sides of the Pacific and longtime observers of the relationship. Credit growing realism in Japan about security issues, unprecedented decisions in Tokyo and a remarkable personal relationship...
JAPAN
Jul 2, 2003

U.S. pressure places Iran-Japan oil deal in doubt

The government on Tuesday urged a state-backed consortium of Japanese firms to delay signing a contract on an Iranian oil development project, citing international suspicion that Tehran is developing nuclear weapons.
COMMENTARY
Jul 2, 2003

Pyongyang: keep the gloves on for now

LONDON -- There is no question that the anachronistic communist regime in North Korea threatens the peace in Northeast Asia. In the absence of good intelligence, however, it is difficult to estimate the extent of the threat. American intelligence on Iraq was faulty, and it is doubtful whether the CIA...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jul 2, 2003

Two European time-and-emotion studies

It's my pleasure to introduce two plays you really must see this month, if not today. Well, one today, and one tomorrow, perhaps, so as not to be too greedy.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Jun 30, 2003

Devolution trinity needs more than a moniker to succeed

Fewer subsidies, less transfers, more taxing power. Thus goes Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's "trinity" of local government reforms.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jun 29, 2003

Dishonesty in democracy

JAPAN'S DYSFUNCTIONAL DEMOCRACY: The Liberal Democratic Party and Structural Corruption, by Roger W. Bowen. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2003, 139 pp. $21.95 (paper). JAPAN'S FAILED REVOLUTION: Koizumi and the Politics of Reform, by Aurelia George Mulgan. Canberra: Asia Pacific Press, 2003, 139 pp. $36 (paper). During...
COMMENTARY
Jun 29, 2003

Humane results don't justify bad policy

WASHINGTON -- Never mind finding Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, intones U.S. Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican: Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was a bad man and "our war to liberate Iraq was right and just." Liberal pundit Nat Hentoff agrees, calling humanitarianism "the most compelling reason...
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2003

Make way for IAEA, Japan tells Iran

Japan is calling on Iran to give International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors full access to its nuclear facilities.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2003

Make way for IAEA, Japan tells Iran

Japan is calling on Iran to give International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors full access to its nuclear facilities.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2003

Make way for IAEA, Japan tells Iran

Japan is calling on Iran to give International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors full access to its nuclear facilities.
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2003

U.S. tired of Pyongyang's 'serial provocation': Baker

U.S. Ambassador Howard Baker warned Friday that Washington has become tired of North Korea's "serial provocation" over its nuclear weapons program and urged the reclusive state to agree to a second round of multilateral talks.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2003

Resona shareholders divided over bailout

OSAKA -- Resona Holdings Inc. shareholders were split Friday into those who excused the banking group for being bailed out with taxpayers' cash and those who demanded former executives take further responsibility.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 22, 2003

Let Sri Lankan premier deal with Tigers

MADRAS, India -- The Sri Lankan peace process is under serious threat. Fifteen months after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's government began negotiations, differences between the two have snowballed into an ugly confrontation.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jun 21, 2003

Maria Anderson

"This year the International Ladies Benevolent Society is celebrating 50 continuous years of philanthropy," Maria Anderson said.
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2003

Waning typhoon drifts north; rain warning issued

Typhoon Soudelor was moving north-northeast off Yamaguchi Prefecture on the southwestern tip of Honshu on Thursday evening, with its force gradually waning, according to the Meteorological Agency.
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2003

Waning typhoon drifts north; rain warning issued

Typhoon Soudelor was moving north-northeast off Yamaguchi Prefecture on the southwestern tip of Honshu on Thursday evening, with its force gradually waning, according to the Meteorological Agency.
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2003

Waning typhoon drifts north; rain warning issued

Typhoon Soudelor was moving north-northeast off Yamaguchi Prefecture on the southwestern tip of Honshu on Thursday evening, with its force gradually waning, according to the Meteorological Agency.
EDITORIALS
Jun 16, 2003

Controversial bill reaches Diet floor

There is no question that Japan should do what it can to help bring stability and democracy to Iraq. Although the world remains divided over whether the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was justified, rebuilding the country is an international undertaking that should be supported by as many nations as possible...
COMMENTARY
Jun 16, 2003

They impeach murderers, don't they?

NEW YORK -- U.S. President George W. Bush told us that Iraq and al-Qaeda were working together. They weren't. He repeatedly implied that Iraq had had something to do with 9/11. It hadn't. He claimed to have proof that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein possessed banned weapons of mass destruction....
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2003

SDF-Iraq bill is sent to Diet after WMD clause excised

The government submitted a revised bill to the Diet on Friday that would enable the dispatch of Self-Defense Forces personnel to Iraq to carry out reconstruction work, after excising the disposal of weapons of mass destruction from the SDF's mission from the initial draft.
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
Women-only communities flourish in China
Chen Yani (right), nicknamed "Keke," eats lunch with friends and guests in a female co-living space she founded called "Keke's Imaginative Space" in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on July 14.
JR East cancels luxury train run over crew's boozing
East Japan Railway said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service, which was originally scheduled to depart from Ueno Station in Tokyo on Aug. 30, after crew members were found to have been drinking alcohol on duty.
Man arrested over deadly stabbing of woman in Kobe
Masashi Tanimoto, 35, the suspect in the deadly stabbing a 24-year-old woman, is taken into custody in Kobe on Friday night.
Japanese city proposes two-hour daily limit for smartphone use
The Toyoake Municipal Government in Aichi Prefecture is planning to enact an ordinance to urge all smartphone users in the city to limit screen time to two hours a day outside work or school.
Alicia Keys closed Summer Sonic, but J-pop owned it
Summer Sonic’s 2025 lineup demonstrated its strength, showcasing the latest in J-pop, including “new kawaii” act Fruits Zipper.
Is the LDP’s catch-all approach to politics still effective?
Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15. Political commentator Toru Hashimoto has suggested that Takaichi ought to lead a group of like-minded hawkish politicians out of the Liberal Democratic Party and form their own party.
Fingers sore from too much phone time? You might have ‘sumaho yubi.’
A catch-all term for tendonitis and arthritis caused by excessive smartphone use, 'sumaho yubi' may be difficult to treat for gadget-crazy Japan.
As farm minister, Koizumi is held ‘hostage’ by Ishiba
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi (center) attends a Lower House session on Aug. 1. Locking Koizumi into the Cabinet is Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s way of turning a potential rival into a team player, according to one expert.
Big burgers and bigger ambitions for Japan's Burger King
Kazuhiro Nomura, president of BK Japan Holdings, which operates Burger King in Japan

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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