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COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jun 29, 2015
Japan's colonial rule of Korea was 'moderate'
Japan's colonial policies in Korea were moderate in comparison with the way some European countries treated their colonies.
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
May 28, 2015
President Park Geun-hye's Japan stance in perspective
Where does South Korean President Geun-hye Park's open antipathy toward Japan come from?
COMMENTARY / World / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Apr 29, 2015
Anti-abolitionist sentiments are alive and well
Why haven't black civil rights leaders demanded that the American national anthem be changed?
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Feb 27, 2015
Yamashita trial as a monument to our humanity
Many U.S. commentators' assumption that Japan is beyond redemption because it is a 'war-crime nation' appears to have taken off at the trial of Tomoyuki Yamashita, who was convicted after the Pacific War in Manila for failure to exert 'command responsibility' over every action of his troops.
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jan 26, 2015
Sex slave wrangling misses human picture
When a dispute arises between the South Korea and Japan, such as the 'comfort women' controversy, the South Koreans who most fiercely criticize Japan are 'liberals' while the Japanese who criticize South Korea are 'conservative rightists.'
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 / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Nov 27, 2014
Censorship distortion of 'comfort women'
When Toho Studios wanted to turn 'The Life of an Alluring Woman' into a film, U.S. censors stepped in multiple times to demand script revisions.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Nov 3, 2014
Redaction of a 'comfort woman' story
One of the Japanese stories sometimes mentioned in the 'comfort women' controversy was written by the late Taijiro Tamura in the spring of 1947. It depicted Korean 'comfort women,' but the U.S. Occupation 'suppressed' it.
COMMENTARY / World / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Sep 29, 2014
Condemnation attributed to 'utter nonsense'
Were 'comfort women' sex slaves for Japanese soldiers in World War II? If you recognize that prostitution is largely a form of physical bondage, they were. But forcibly rounding up women for the work would be a different matter. Recently the testimony of a man who claimed to have helped with the roundups was judged to be false, after causing Japan consternation for three decades.
COMMENTARY / World / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Sep 1, 2014
U.S. media coverage reveals a pro-Israel bias
Imagine Boston, including its coast, hemmed in by a relentlessly hostile superior power ready to attack it anytime from air, land and sea. Boston is about a third of the Gaza Strip in land area, but the same in population density.
COMMENTARY / World / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jul 28, 2014
Anthropocentric bent of 'alien' fish
Japanese researchers of fauna and flora are becoming more like their U.S. counterparts inasmuch as they talk about the environment, ecology and biodiversity to disguise their anthropocentric expediency.
COMMENTARY / World / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jun 30, 2014
A breed apart: liberal hawks who buoyed Bush
Those tough American liberal hawks who climbed aboard George W. Bush's war wagon into Iraq a decade ago were a breed apart.
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Oct 28, 2013
It's risky business updating authorities on intelligence
Updating the authorities with knowledge of their Western enemies led to the death by disembowelment of one of the more farsighted Japanese intellects in 1841.
COMMENTARY / World / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Sep 29, 2013
Air festivals, the costs of flight and budget flak
The U.S. Air Force did not send its acrobatic team to the Misawa Air Festival this year because of budget cuts. Military flying machines can be exorbitantly expensive.
COMMENTARY / World / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Aug 25, 2013
Still dreaming of a level field after all these years
Wednesday will mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington that soon came to be equated with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech, "I Have a Dream."
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jul 28, 2013
Where to go to survive the day? the corbies say
The word from a longtime Tokyo resident is that the jungle crow population, the bane of garbage piles, is finally in decline. Not everyone is happy about that.
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jun 24, 2013
Going with the flow in the trade office for Japan
There are some things to say as one leaves the New York office of Japan's JETRO, having worked amid the ebb and flow of trade for 44 years.
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
May 27, 2013
The transient rasping that captivates the poets
Do cicadas create a shrieking hell? Are they ugly? There is a striking difference between English and Japanese Wikipedia entries on these transient insects.
COMMENTARY / World / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Apr 29, 2013
Photos of carnage would check war sentiment
Would most Americans remain indifferent to the wars their government wages in far-off lands if their media broadcast videos each day of the shattered bodies?
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Mar 25, 2013
It's not skin color, it's every way you're different
What should a Japanese expat say to a mixed-race couple in New York who wonder how their children would be treated if they raised them in Japan?
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Saudi Arabia steps up Gaza-related arrests as Israel ties edge closer
The arrests for Gaza-related posts indicate Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s regime will take a hard line against citizens not toeing the line when it comes to normalizing ties with Israel.
'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.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
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.

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