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IS TERRORISM

COMMENTARY / World
Apr 25, 2013
Why people stay scared after tragedies
After a tragedy such as the one last week in Boston, people develop a heightened sense of risk. Often that response is far greater than reality warrants.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 22, 2013
How the Boston bombing investigation unfolded
Within hours of the Boston Marathon bombing, investigators were already overwhelmed. Bloody clothing, bags, shoes and other evidence from victims and witnesses was piling up. Videos and still images, thousands of them, were pouring in by email and Twitter.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 22, 2013
Boston attack exposes limitations of post-9/11 security buildup
The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks led to a massive buildup of security to make the country safe. Subsequent plots, including attempts to conceal bombs in shoes and underwear, prompted hasty additions to that edifice, as officials sought to fill in cracks that terrorists might exploit.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 22, 2013
Attack will prove urban resiliency
Cities exist to connect humanity and to enable us to work collaboratively. Those connections only strengthen when we are attacked as the Boston Marathon was.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 20, 2013
Boston in lockdown as police hunt second bombing suspect
A massive manhunt is launched in the Boston suburbs after one suspect in the deadly marathon bombings is killed in a confrontation with police and the second is identified but remains at-large.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 19, 2013
FBI releases video images of Boston bombing suspects, appeals for public's help
The FBI released video and photos Thursday of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings who were seen carrying backpacks and walking casually among spectators shortly before the blasts.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 18, 2013
Bombs are simple in design, hard to trace
The bombs that tore through a crowd of spectators at the Boston Marathon could have cost as little as $100 to build and were made of the most ordinary ingredients — so ordinary, in fact, that investigators could face a gargantuan challenge in attempting to use bomb forensics to find the culprit.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 17, 2013
Bystanders ran toward the smoke, not from it
When the bombs went off on Boston's Boylston Street, bystanders ran toward the smoke, realizing the dangers but hoping to save lives.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Apr 17, 2013
Uncomfortable truth laid bare in Boston: not every plot will be spotted
After nearly a dozen years of foiled plots, the United States on Monday suffered the first large-scale bombing since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, opened an era of heightened security affecting nearly every aspect of American life.
WORLD
Apr 13, 2013
Gitmo dogged by new controversy
The U.S. military justice system at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which has been dogged by charges of secret monitoring of proceedings and defense communications, became embroiled in a fresh controversy Thursday when it was revealed that hundreds of thousands of defense emails were turned over to the prosecution.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 8, 2013
A template emerges for prosecuting terror suspects
Aboard the USS Boxer, somewhere in the Indian Ocean, Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame was sitting across from a team of interrogators, talking and talking. In secure meeting rooms in Washington, senior officials in the Obama administration were wringing their hands over what to do with him.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 8, 2013
Time for U.S. to curb drone flights over Yemen
As Yemen's democratic transition proceeds, it's time Washington switched its anti-terror drone campaign to a policy favoring stability and prosperity.
JAPAN
Mar 22, 2013
'82 Pan Am bomber who killed boy freed
Mohammed Rashed, who placed a bomb that damaged a Pan Am jet over the Pacific in 1982, killing a Japanese high schooler, was released from federal prison Wednesday, a U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 17, 2013
U.S. drone strikes violate Pakistan's sovereignty: U.N.
CIA drone strikes on targets in Pakistan violate its national sovereignty and have resulted in far more civilian casualties than the U.S. government has recognized, a special U.N. human rights envoy has reported after a secret investigation.
EDITORIALS
Feb 13, 2013
Securing Japanese safety abroad
Allowing intervention by the Self-Defense Forces in conflicts and terrorist attacks overseas is not the way to raise the safety bar for Japanese nationals.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 8, 2013
U.S. may restore North Korea to list of terrorist states
The United States is considering re-designating North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism in the event Pyongyang conducts another nuclear test.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 8, 2013
Lawmakers to get access to drone war rules
Washington AFP-JIJI
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 5, 2013
Missteps bedevil U.S. counterterrorism efforts in Africa
The U.S. military was closely tracking a one-eyed bandit across the Sahara in 2003 when it confronted a hard choice that is still reverberating a decade later. Should it try to kill or capture the target, an Algerian jihadist named Moktar Belmoktar, or let him go?
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 30, 2013
Calls grow for U.S. to release first WTC bomber
Before bin Laden, there was the blind sheik. A generation ago, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman stood as the embodiment of Islamist terrorism: a bearded, religious extremist with a trademark red and white cap and dark sunglasses who helped orchestrate the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 and plotted several unrealized attacks against other New York landmarks.
CULTURE / Books
May 13, 2001
When the nightmare broke through: "Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche"
UNDERGROUND: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche, by Haruki Murakami. Translated by Alfred Birnbaum and Philip Gabriel. Random House, Vintage International; 366 pp., $14.
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In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
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.
Ukraine is far from doomed
When comparing Ukraine’s military situation in 2024 to Europe’s in 1941, Russia’s defeat seems entirely possible.
When will Japan intervene to support the yen?
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki has reiterated the government's readiness to take an appropriate action as the yen continues to slide against the U.S. dollar.
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.
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.
Kyotographie's strong 12th edition shines light into the margins
Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, who goes by Yoriyas, turned to photography, shooting motion while in motion himself, after an injury forced him to give up his career as a professional breakdancer.

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