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CRIMEA

Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 8, 2014
Crimea euphoria fading for Russians
When she was asked to give up a day's pay to help Crimea, Russian hospital therapist Tatyana could not hide her anger. Why should she subsidize others when struggling to make ends meet herself?
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 18, 2014
Kishida to delay visit to Russia again
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida plans to delay his visit to Russia to September or later out of consideration for Japan's alliance with the United States, a country that has taken a tough stance toward the Kremlin over the crisis in Ukraine, government sources said Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 11, 2014
U.S. foreign policy marked by blatant hypocrisy
It is a truth universally acknowledged that behavior by others inconsistent with social norms is condemned as hypocrisy but similar discrepancies in our own conduct is rationalized as understandable prioritization in the face of multiple goals. When the military deposed Egypt's first freely elected president, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said it was "restoring democracy." When the Thai military took power through a coup last month, the United States suspended all military assistance. In Ukraine the West supported street mobs who ousted the elected pro-Russian president and installed a pro-Western government instead.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 18, 2014
Cold-shouldered by West, Putin will hope for some China sympathy
Increasingly isolated by the West over Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin will hope for a sympathetic ear on a visit next week to China, which is also being more assertive in its territorial disputes with smaller neighbors.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 1, 2014
Abe, Merkel stand firm on sanctions
Germany's Angela Merkel and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday that the leading industrial powers would stand united on further sanctions against Russia if needed, despite Moscow's threat to retaliate against foreign energy companies.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 29, 2014
Reverberations of the Ukraine crisis
Having annexed Crimea, Russia has lost Ukraine, turning it from friend to foe. There can be no return to business as usual anytime soon.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 27, 2014
Israel's dilemma over Putin's move on Ukraine
Israel worries about America's gradual withdrawal from the Middle East, a policy shift that has allowed Russia to regain lost influence there. And Russian President Vladimir Putin's move on Ukraine presented a dilemma for the Netanyahu government.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 25, 2014
Not the time to turn virtual war into a real one
Although a dozen or so people have been killed in random incidents, the 'war' in eastern Ukraine remains virtual. The old existing civic administrations go on as before, ignoring the pro-Russian takeovers of civic buildings.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 11, 2014
Aid for Ukraine topic at G-7 meet
The Group of Seven finance ministers and central bank governors met Thursday in Washington to discuss the need for financial aid in crisis-hit Ukraine and the possibility of additional sanctions against Russia.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 8, 2014
Annexation by other means
Ukraine's former prime minister, Yuliya Tymoshenko, warns that Russian President Putin seeks to make the West complicit in the dismemberment of Ukraine by negotiating a Kremlin-designed federal constitution that would create a dozen Crimeas that Russia could devour later.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 6, 2014
Don't let Cold War warriors reboot their dated thinking
The hundred think tanks that bloomed, and the thousands of mediocre academics and pseudo-experts who found easy employment in the universities and the media, feel obliged to make themselves relevant and important again after Russian President Vladimir Putin's land grab. Don't let them reboot the Cold War.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 4, 2014
Japan's Russian dilemma
For the Japanese, President Vladimir Putin's annexation of Crimea was an unsurprising return to Russia's historic paradigm. Thus it is understandable that many now consider the recent hopes for serious talks between Putin and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the Northern Territories as stillborn.
COMMENTARY
Apr 4, 2014
Wary West caught off guard by Putin's wild ways
At this point, the West has no idea what Russia is willing to do to restore its influence, but Russia knows exactly what the West will — and, more important, will not — do. This has created a dangerous asymmetry.
COMMENTARY
Mar 28, 2014
Averting a second cold war
Seeking to economically squeeze Russia and isolate it internationally would mean a strategic boon for China,
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 28, 2014
How Spain can avoid a nasty split like Crimea
There is no case for forcibly keeping territories under a country's rule if the majority doesn't want it.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 28, 2014
What does the West now want?
The U.S. has acquired a dangerous militarist outlook on world affairs in which problems are defined primarily in military terms. In the case of Ukraine, such a view could lead to catastrophe.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 27, 2014
Hearts blossom for Crimea's new attorney general
A viral video of Natalia Poklonskaya's charmingly shy first press conference inspires enough otaku artists to produce a shrine of manga-style illustrations.
EDITORIALS
Mar 26, 2014
The G-7 against Russia
The G-7 countries adopt an emergency declaration condemning 'Russia's illegal attempt to annex Crimea.' The question, though, is whether the G-7 is prepared to impose industrial sanctions that could hurt Europe as well, if Russia takes more bites out of Ukraine.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 25, 2014
What does the Russian 'godfather' have in store?
In President Vladimir Putin's mind, the whole world has discriminated against Russia for the last three centuries. Russia's bloody despots — Catherine II, Nicholas I, or Josef Stalin — apparently never discriminated against anyone.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 23, 2014
The rest of Ukraine promises only more trouble for Russia
Once again Russian President Vladimir Putin's rhetoric has made U.S. President Barack Obama seem out of touch protesting violation of international law, as the world knows the U.S. is the country that ignores it most.
As visitors surge, Japan seeks ways to make tourism eco-friendly
Much like other hot spots across Okinawa, Onna has diligently strived to captivate both domestic and international tourists, while at the same time grappling with the environmental strain induced by the influx of visitors.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
Tokuryū, a new crime menace in Japan, emerges from the shadows
The National Police Agency coined the term "tokuryū" to classify individuals involved in dark part time jobs and quasi-gangsters, using the words "tokumei" (anonymous) and "ryūdo" (fluid) to reflect their characteristics.
Is Modi’s party heading for a stunning election loss?
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign tactics have escalated, including anti-Muslim rhetoric and fearmongering, reflecting his ruling party's desperation.
Kishida talks up bolstered Latin American ties as China cements position
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida holds a news conference in Sao Paulo on Saturday.
Japan’s tween skateboarders get head start on preparations for 2028 Olympics
Ibuki Matsumoto competes at an event in Osaka on April 21.
As visitors surge, Japan seeks ways to make tourism eco-friendly
Much like other hot spots across Okinawa, Onna has diligently strived to captivate both domestic and international tourists, while at the same time grappling with the environmental strain induced by the influx of visitors.
Kishida talks up bolstered Latin American ties as China cements position
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida holds a news conference in Sao Paulo on Saturday.
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.

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