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POLITICS 3

ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 23, 2015
For third time, South Korea's Park names a new prime minister
South Korean President Park Geun-hye nominated for prime minister on Friday a political veteran and the current parliamentary floor leader of her ruling Saenuri Party, the presidential Blue House said.
COMMENTARY
Jan 22, 2015
Hindu zealots drag down India's great-power destiny
A tussle is going on between the cultural and economic right wings of India's ruling party. The former helped to bring the Bharatiya Janata Party to power, but only the latter can ensure it retains power by using it for the common good.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY
Jan 19, 2015
Russia's European home
If Western sanctions are to be an effective tool in countering Vladimir Putin's ambitions, they must combine a firm hand toward Russia's president with an open one toward its people.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 8, 2015
Pakistan at a tipping point
It may be too much wishful thinking to expect the slaughter of 132 schoolchildren and nine teaching staff in Peshawar last month to mark a tipping point that forces Pakistan's squabbling factions, the nominal political rulers, army commanders and judges to put their heads together to prevent their country from becoming a failed state.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 5, 2015
Survival of 'freedom, democracy'
From top to bottom, Japanese society seems to be growing more introverted and to be shedding its openness toward the outside world. Can the ideal of 'freedom and democracy' survive this trend?
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 2, 2015
How to root out the poison of extremism in Pakistan
The intertwining of religious terrorism, the colonization of the state by the army and the obsession with India as an existential threat has mutated into a virulent toxin feeding parasitically on Pakistan.
EDITORIALS
Dec 30, 2014
Bad feelings toward the neighbors
An overwhelming majority of people in Japan harbor negative sentiments toward Asian neighbors that the government calls 'partners responsible for the peace and prosperity of the region.' What is Prime Minister Shinzo Abe going to do about that?
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 29, 2014
An all-Hindu vision of India
India's powerful, male-only Hindu nationalist outfit announces an intensive conversion program to recover its 'lost property' in India, feeding its dream of an India that is nothing less than '100 per cent Hindu.'
COMMENTARY / World / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Dec 29, 2014
'Comfort women' politics in Japan, Korea, U.S.
Perhaps the wartime existence of 'comfort women' owes its notoriety in recent years to Japan's retroactive bad conscience, South Korean politics and the unwarranted U.S. propensity to be a moral scold.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 29, 2014
Texas license plate challenges sensitive people
The legal skirmish over a Texas license platet implicates a burgeoning new entitlement in the U.S.: the right to pass through life without encountering any disagreeable thought.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 28, 2014
Thai regime plays royal card to silence critics
The military regime in Thailand appears to be trying to silence political critics of the monarchy by charging them with lese-majeste offenses.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 25, 2014
A realistic agenda for voters to prevent the worst results
One wonders if the Japanese are realistic enough to vote against political parties and candidates in order to prevent the worst results even if they don't see candidates of their choice.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 16, 2014
Controversial to the end, Shintaro Ishihara bows out of politics
Hawkish former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara officially puts an end to his nearly 50-year political career after losing his Diet seat in Sunday's Lower House election.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 14, 2014
Political and economic factors driving devolution
The push to return powers from Brussels to the British government, and to devolve powers from the British government to the regions, have become buzzwords in the U.K.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 8, 2014
India's Modi signals end to anti-Americanism
With his latest invite to U.S. President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is signaling that the senseless anti-Americanism of the Indian polity is a thing of the past.
EDITORIALS
Dec 8, 2014
Amending the Constitution
The political landscape emerging from the Dec. 14 Lower House election will impact when or whether a revision to Japan's Constitution becomes a major agenda item.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 8, 2014
Xi's cultural revolution looks doomed to fail
China's government has just reserved the right to send film and television actors, directors, writers and producers on all-expenses-paid, involuntary, 30-day sabbaticals to rural mining sites, border areas, and other remote locations.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 26, 2014
Will Britain become Europe's most politically unpredictable country?
Investors and businesses in Britain are queuing up for a roller-coaster ride as the country enters a period of political unpredictability.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Nov 22, 2014
Okinawans reject Abe's base deal, but he won't listen
On Nov. 16, Okinawan voters sent Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a clear message: Close the U.S. marine air base in Futenma and locate the replacement somewhere outside our prefecture.
EDITORIALS
Nov 21, 2014
Opposition must get its act together
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is seeking a vote of confidence for his "Abenomics" policies in the Dec. 14 election of the Lower House. But as the chamber was officially dissolved Friday, the opposition parties still lack a common ground beyond their unanimous criticism of Abe's economic policies as failures based on recent economic data.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Yen’s fragility raises specter of a new currency war in Asia
Suspected intervention to drag the yen off a 34-year low against the dollar is already seen as unlikely to have a lasting effect if Japan continues alone.
Online booking for Mount Fuji climb to open on May 20
Visitors climb the slopes of Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak at 3,776 meters. From May 20, climbers will have access to a new online booking system for Mount Fuji's most popular Yoshida trail in Yamanashi Prefecture.
In Japan, 68,000 people over 65 projected to die alone at home this year
As Japan grapples with its population's rapid aging, supporting people who live and age alone is looming larger on the policy agenda.
Ex-METI bureaucrat given 10-year sentence for drugging and raping women
The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a former industry ministry bureaucrat to 10 years in prison for drugging six women with sleeping pills and then raping or groping them in 2022.
In a rare event, the Northern Lights show up in Hokkaido
The Northern Lights in Nayoro, Hokkaido, on Saturday
Is black the new green for Japan’s flagging tea farmers?
George Guttridge-Smith brews tea at Kyoto Obubu Tea Farm in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, where he serves as head of international development.
Japan's logistics firms seek partnerships to cope with driver shortage
Japan Post CEO Tetsuya Senda (right) and his Seino Transportation counterpart Satoshi Takahashi announce their companies' agreement on joint long-haul truck operations, in Tokyo on Thursday.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.
Unlike 10 years ago, Japan's new security bill sparks little debate
The Lower House starts discussing a security clearance bill on April 19 in Tokyo.

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