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THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK

COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Feb 25, 2013
Endless effects of 'pacification' wars
Unnecessary U.S. wars in the Middle East have unintended consequences at home just as Japan's war against China still casts its shadows to this day.
COMMENTARY / World / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jan 28, 2013
West never tires of the 'burden' of baiting Iran
Is The New York Times inciting a U.S. war against Iran? As it did the war against Iraq?
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Dec 31, 2012
Supreme copout: twisted justification for guns
Suppose a Seung-Hui Cho, Jared Lee Loughner, James Eagan Holmes or an Adam Lanza shot and killed or seriously wounded any of the families of John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Would any of them have given different opinions in their 2008 and 2010 decisions?
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Nov 26, 2012
Punchy party names hark back to ignominy
So, Shintaro Ishihara, who had abruptly quit the Tokyo governorship in October, set up a political party named Taiyo no To, then merged it with Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto's political party that doesn't sound like one, Nippon Ishin no Kai. Another political party that doesn't sound like one, Tachiagare Nippon, joined them.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Oct 29, 2012
Evidence of the Showa Emperor's deep regret
Checking the galley of the endnotes to "Persona," my biography of Yukio Mishima with Naoki Inose, I decided to augment a note on Japan's monarchical system. The tenno institution had a singular meaning for Mishima, and I set aside substantial space in the book for the subject.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Sep 24, 2012
An ominously familiar Japanese contemporary
Things do sometimes go backward.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Aug 27, 2012
Shifting views on the role of the Emancipator
Gore Vidal, who died at the end of July, was one writer whose essays I began to read years ago. I then moved on to his novels, though I saw one of his more famous Broadway plays, "The Best Man," only recently for the first time.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jul 30, 2012
U.S. has turned the tables on its old Declaration
On Independence Day (July 4), The New York Times printed the Declaration of Independence, as it had done — the daily noted in an article on the preceding day — for 90 years, since 1922.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jun 25, 2012
Irony of being in the company of '12-year-olds'
In going over my manuscript of the Yukio Mishima biography, my copy editor protested at one point, citing her "liberal Berkeley-influenced sensibilities." That was where I described Japan as a "backward nation." Let me explain.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
May 28, 2012
Unmachinable, unreformable, but necessary
One recent topic for The Wall Street Journal's front-page space set aside for stories other than the daily shenanigans of business, politics and wars was the community in Florida created for retired letter carriers. ("In Florida, These Retirees Deliver a First-Class Protest," March 27.)
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Apr 30, 2012
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the sakura
Until The New York Times pointed it out earlier this month, I had failed to notice, alas, that Tokyo had given cherry trees to this city as it did to Washington, D.C., 100 years ago ("Gifts From Japan, Less Celebrated in Manhattan," April 12).
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Mar 26, 2012
Costs of a policy of profligacy with foreign lives
In the early hours of March 11, Sunday, a U.S. soldier went on a rampage in a village in Panjway, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan. He went from one mud house to another, shot, stabbed, and burned 16 villagers. Or so it has been reported.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Feb 27, 2012
American safety tab in terms of drone deaths
Sometimes people make a startlingly mindless argument. One recent example is "Drones for Human Rights" (New York Times, Jan. 31).
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jan 30, 2012
Aggression born of American 'exceptionalism'
I thought American exceptionalism was debunked and dying. I was wrong.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Dec 26, 2011
Strange how isolationist stance can ruin a politician's reputation
Perhaps because it's a round number, the 70th anniversary of Japan's assault on Pearl Harbor has given me the impression that more articles on it saw print than in the past, except for, as I recall, the 50th anniversary of the same.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Nov 28, 2011
Learning to live with the builders of America
During one week this month, the drivers of four taxis that I took hailed from four different countries.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Oct 31, 2011
Controversy is no stranger to Nobel Peace Prize
Earlier this month, when the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced its decision to award its annual Peace Prize to three African women — two Liberians and one Yemeni — Time magazine published online, on the same day, a list of the top 10 among "the most controversial moments in the 110-year history of the prize," giving the pride of place to U.S. President Barack Obama. That has led me to revisit the issue ("Standing army still the prize peace-breaker," Oct. 24, 2009).
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Sep 26, 2011
Two 'systematic' acts of brutality and coverup
When Mark Hatfield, who had served as a U.S. Senator from Oregon for three decades, died in early August, obituaries noted that he was one of the first U.S. soldiers to visit Hiroshima not long after the atomic bombing of the city, and that experience led him to work for nuclear arms control later, after he became a Senator.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Aug 29, 2011
'Gratuitous' bombing of a defeated enemy
The International Center of Photography recently had an exhibition, "Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945," and I attended the panel discussion. This month 66 years ago the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jul 25, 2011
The self-inflicted costs of a 'war of choice'
In mid-July when Mumbai was attacked with three explosions, The New York Times carried photos of some of the bloodied casualties up front — at least in its online version — and I wondered: If the newspaper for "all the news that's fit to print" had carried photos of victims of American bombing and gunning from the moment the United States assaulted Afghanistan in the fall of 2001 and invaded Iraq in the spring of 2003, would Americans have put up with the destruction of these countries so long?
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.
Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it
Laforet Harajuku, which celebrated its 45th anniversary last year, has been a witness to the district's evolution over the years.
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.
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.

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