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AI REVOLUTION

WORLD
Apr 14, 2015
Iran to appoint first female ambassador since Islamic Revolution: reports
Iran will appoint its first female ambassador abroad since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the semi-official Fars and Mehr news agencies said late on Monday, citing unspecified reports.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2015
Abe's robot panel aims to give drone industry an edge
The Abe administration is looking to fast-track industry-friendly regulation to give Japan's drone sector an edge over the United States.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 1, 2015
FBI's attack on encryption
When the FBI tries to sabotage the efforts of consumers and businesses to secure their data through encryption, the agency is essentially attacking the security foundations of the online world created over the past 20 years.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 17, 2014
China should act as umbrella revolution folds
If Beijing learns anything from the biggest protests against its authority since the British returned the keys to Hong Kong in 1997, it should be that Hong Kongers want competent leaders, not cronies.
JAPAN / History
Mar 22, 2014
The sloughing of Japan's corporate skin goes on
"Man is born free and is everywhere in chains."
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2014
Protests in Ukraine, Thailand likely to backfire
The specter of secession suddenly haunts Ukraine and Thailand, two countries where demonstrators have uncompromisingly battled corrupt or unresponsive rulers. Are modern states in general strong enough to survive today's explosions of popular will?
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 28, 2014
Ukrainian coup is not a revolution
In a real revolution, the core mission and organizational structure of a country's military are radically altered. The leadership changes in Ukraine and Egypt don't signify revolutions.
COMMENTARY
Feb 28, 2014
China uses Ukraine unrest as argument for stability
China's Communist Party-controlled media appear to be using the unrest in Ukraine as a teaching moment to point out the pitfalls of clamoring for more rapid reforms in a large, multi-ethnic society — one like China's.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 2, 2014
The dark shadow of China's Cultural Revolution
Public discussion of the widespread abuses of Chinese citizens by Chinese citizens during the so-called Cultural Revolution is limited. Some seek atonement though.
JAPAN
Dec 18, 2013
Grateful granddaughter sheds light on Japan-Russia goodwill voyage
A woman whose grandparents were saved by a Japanese vessel during the 1917 Russian Revolution spent years searching for the identity of the ship's captain and in the process has shed light on a little-known story.
JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Dec 14, 2013
Why didn't Japan have a revolution like France's?
Why wasn't there a revolution in Japan like the one in France? The suffering was as great in 18th-century Japan as in the realm of ill-fated King Louis XVI, the government here as callous and incompetent as the government there. How did Japan's old order — rotting internally, as its collapse under foreign threat in the 1860s proved — escape being overthrown by the starving and enraged masses?
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2013
The new cultural counter-revolution in China
The Chinese Communist Party's promotion these days of Confucianism and Western classical music illustrates the profound transformation this country has made again.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 27, 2011
History museum takes no prisoners
A powerful earthquake devastated Sichuan Province in 2008 and recovery is still ongoing, but this prosperous and fertile region of southwest China has also suffered a series of man-made disasters.

Longform

Later this month, author Shogo Imamura will open Honmaru, a bookstore that allows other businesses to rent its shelves. It's part of a wave of ideas Japanese booksellers are trying to compete with online spaces.
The story isn't over for Japan's bookstores