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COUNTERPOINT

COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 7, 2005
Learning a foreign language is a cultural journey, too
English students of Japan, unite! You have nothing to lose but your (conversation school) chains!
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jul 31, 2005
Only the names change as U.S. policy blunders on
Don't blame it on the neo-cons.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jul 24, 2005
Strangelove encounters of a MAD scientist kind
Herman Kahn is back in the news.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jul 17, 2005
All hail the Land of the Free -- or else!
The United States of America is all akilter.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jul 10, 2005
New horizons beckon as Train Man heads nowhere fast
The Japanese nation seems to be firmly in the grip of the otaku.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jul 3, 2005
Detractors have a whale of a time as Japan flounders on
The American historian Brooks Adams (1848-1927) defined history as "just one goddamn thing after another." Though it is a century old, Adams' aphorism is a spot-on characterization of the most recent events surrounding Japan.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jun 26, 2005
Opportunities go begging as the blind follow dissembling blind
Japan and Australia are natural partners.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jun 19, 2005
Media conspiracy of concealment costs social progress dear
What do these Japanese people have in common: A neighbor of people whose house has burned down; an uncle or aunt of someone who has been the victim of a crime; a person who has had food poisoning?
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jun 12, 2005
'Woe is me' nation awaits return of its sadsack heroes
In the last days of May, news reached Japan that two former soldiers in the Imperial Army had been found in the Philippines. Apparently the two men, who had been hiding during the entire postwar period in an area around the town of General Santos close to the southern tip of the island of Mindanao, now wanted to come home.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jun 5, 2005
Will Japanese inertia never be the same again?
Who is to blame for the dead hand of inertia that has prevented Japan from forging ahead economically and politically in the last decade and a half?
COMMUNITY / COUNTERPOINT
May 29, 2005
Causes and effects can encompass far more than 'specifics'
In January 1977, an express train traveling from the Blue Mountains of New South Wales to Sydney derailed on a curve near Granville Station, 21 km west of the city. The train -- which was three minutes late when it left the last stop on its 2 1/2-hour journey -- smashed into the pillar of a bridge, killing 83 of those on board and injuring 213.
COMMUNITY / COUNTERPOINT
May 22, 2005
Last laugh to the lizards, and fair play for frogs an' all
Long ago in a land skirted by two oceans, there lived a people who worshipped lizards.
COMMUNITY / COUNTERPOINT
Apr 24, 2005
Thirty years on, have no lessons been learned from Vietnam?
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, a war that in Vietnam is known as the "American War."
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
G7 eyes plan on U.S.-led $50 billion aid package for Ukraine
A local resident visits the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Japan’s record-low children population weighs on growth
The number of children 14 years old or younger fell for the 43rd straight year to around 14.01 million as of April 1.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
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.

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