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CHEMICAL WEAPONS

Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 21, 2013
Sarin victims face 'slow death' as regime blocks aid
A month after rockets carrying chemical payloads rained down on the suburbs of Damascus, doctors say hundreds are still suffering the ill effects of sarin poisoning. But the horror of the gas attack is being overtaken by continuing shelling and airstrikes, as well as by malnutrition and disease.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 19, 2013
Syrian crisis exposes Obama's frayed ties with U.S. military
The Syrian crisis over the past few weeks has thrust President Barack Obama into a role in which at times he has seemed uneasy: that of commander in chief.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 16, 2013
Syrian deaths rise amid talks
As negotiations to avert a U.S. strike against Syria ramped up last week, so, too, did the action on the ground. Warplanes dropped bombs over far-flung Syrian towns that hadn't seen airstrikes in weeks, government forces went on the attack in the hotly contested suburbs of Damascus, rebels launched an offensive in the south and a historic Christian town changed hands at least four times.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 15, 2013
Iraq, Libya loom over quest to rid nation of chemical arms
When Moammar Gadhafi renounced chemical weapons in 2003, the Libyan dictator surprised skeptics by moving quickly to eliminate his country's toxic arsenal. He signed international treaties, built a disposal facility and allowed inspectors to oversee the destruction of tons of mustard gas.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 12, 2013
Chemical arms: fact and fiction
Technological advances have made conventional weapons capable of leaving a greater trail of death and destruction than any poison gas.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Sep 11, 2013
Securing Assad's chemical arsenal would be daunting task
As diplomats wrangled over competing plans for securing Syria's chemical weapons, arms-control experts warned Tuesday of the formidable challenges involved in carrying out such a complex and risky operation in the midst of a raging civil war.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Sep 11, 2013
Syria debate twists Beltway playbook
Syria has utterly confounded the Washington political establishment, from the White House to the Capitol. There's no script for what's been happening. The usual political polarization, the simple calculus of R vs. D, has disintegrated into a tangle of uncomfortable alliances.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 11, 2013
Kerry's offhand remark on crisis has long reach
While making a case for military strikes in Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry became an inadvertent peacemaker this week, and highlighted the risks and rewards of a chief diplomat who loves to talk but does not love the talking point.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2013
Syrian situation highlights 'G-Zero' world order
Syria's situation is the strongest evidence yet of a new 'G-Zero' world order, in which no single power or bloc of powers will accept the costs and risks that accompany global leadership.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 6, 2013
U.K.'s response to Syrian crisis
Prime Minister David Cameron badly mishandled the issue of whether Britain should take part in a punitive attack on the Assad government for its alleged use of chemical weapons.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 6, 2013
Syria bio-weapon threat worries neighbors
Last month's alleged chemical attack near Damascus has refocused attention on Syria's 30-year-old biological weapons research and raised concerns about whether its regime could activate an effort to make a weapon.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2013
Don't break law to swipe at Assad
How can a U.S. attack send the message that Syria must obey international law if the bombing itself violates the U.N. Charter
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Sep 1, 2013
Poison gas viewed as uniquely horrible
After the guns of World War I fell silent, the world's nations convened in Geneva to outlaw for the first time an entire class of weapons. Barely 1 percent of the war's battlefield deaths had come from toxic chemicals, yet these had evoked greater horror than the blast wounds, shrapnel and bullets that killed millions more.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 29, 2013
Once again, U.S. rushing to attack without facts
Assertions that Syrian President Bashar Assad is guilty of chemical weapons use without hard evidence presented to the international community will not do, not after the dodgy dossiers fiasco on Iraq in 2003.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Aug 29, 2013
West missed chances to cut arsenal
The United States and its allies may be headed for a war that they could have tried harder to prevent.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 28, 2013
Syria will require more than missiles
The question before U.S. President Barack Obama is whether he will make matters worse by convincing himself that he has found a minimal solution to the Syrian problem. He will convince no one else.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 27, 2013
Chemical attack weakens drive to destroy world stockpiles
The shelling of suburban Damascus with a suspected nerve agent last week was potentially the third large-scale use of a chemical weapon in the Middle East and may have broken the longest period in history without such an attack.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 26, 2013
Single family lost 21 in likely chemical attack
Their mobile phones began to ring with a desperate insistence a day after the attack, as the first calls came from Syria to Jordan to Israel, where a branch of the scattered Waked family resides.
WORLD
Aug 22, 2013
Disrupting muscle function, nerve agents can kill fast even in tiny doses
The descriptions of victims arriving at clinics near Damascus on Wednesday point to possible signs of poisoning by a nerve agent, the most deadly of the seven types of chemical weapons recognized by experts.
JAPAN / History
Aug 15, 2013
Japan yet to dispose of arsenic from wartime chemical weapons in China
Japan has yet to dispose of arsenic residue from chemical weapons its Imperial army abandoned in China at the end of World War II, a source close to bilateral relations said Wednesday, noting there are calls for the toxin to be sent to Japan.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
A peek inside the brains of ‘super-agers’
For a little more than a decade, scientists have been studying a subset of people they call "super-agers.” These individuals are age 80 and older, but they have the memory ability of a person 20 to 30 years younger.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.

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