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ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Sep 30, 2013
Troop command top issue as Hagel visits South Korea
Sixty years after the end of the Korean War, the United States and South Korea still cannot agree on who should take charge if another war breaks out with the communist neighbor to the north.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 29, 2013
Nontraditional college students juggle work, kids, bills with coursework
When President Barack Obama talks about the cost of higher education, his mentions of "college students" might often evoke images of teenagers who spent their senior years of high school searching for the four-year institution that best matched their personalities, then enrolled and moved into the dorms...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 29, 2013
Politics and pride drive Putin's anti-U.S. shift
First, Vladimir Putin accused Hillary Rodham Clinton of inciting protests against him at the end of 2011. The next fall, the Russian president threw the U.S. Agency for International Development out of his country. Then he decided civic groups that get U.S. financing must be foreign agents.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 29, 2013
Tattoos make inroads with 50 and older crowd
Thirty years ago, a good girl didn't walk into an establishment plastered with images of dragons and flames, hike her shirt up over one shoulder and let her body be injected with ink. Especially not if she was, like Darlene Nash, a 57-year-old grandmother.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 29, 2013
Looking to 2016, Rubio and Paul rush to join Cruz
Sen. Ted Cruz might have alienated the Republican establishment with his all-night polemic against the Affordable Care Act. But that doesn't mean the caustic Texan didn't win any friends in Washington. As Cruz's 21-hour speech dragged on, GOP Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Rand Paul of Kentucky were...
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Sep 23, 2013
Let the world help at Fukushima No. 1
Readers' mails on the Fukushima fiasco and the late, great Mary Sisk Noguchi, Kanji Clinic columnist and friend to Japanese learners around the world.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Sep 22, 2013
Pacman, Peso and Pyongyang
A few weeks ago, a Kickstarter project was posted on the Internet featuring two young men who went by the names of Pacman and Peso.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 22, 2013
Vetting firms 'rush' through security clearances
When Ileana Privetera started working for the contractor USIS, the firm that vetted National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis, it sounded like the perfect job. A mother, she would have flexible hours for her family, and she would be helping the country...
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 22, 2013
Gun-violence victims often greeted by silence
The survivors took their places onstage from memory, because by now they knew exactly where to go. The shooting victims in wheelchairs entered first, rolling into the front row, wearing bracelets engraved with the words "Aurora," "Oak Creek" or "Virginia Tech." Behind them stood a dozen people in black...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 19, 2013
Domestic factors also drive Putin's Syria gamble
Russian President Vladimir Putin's strategic win over the U.S. in Syria vindicates his foreign policy at a time when he faces difficulties at home.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 18, 2013
Brace for another 'Afghanistan'
A military showdown over Syria has been averted for now but the proxy war that pits the United States and its allies against Russia is set to intensify.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 17, 2013
Beijing sees a victory as UNSC role gets a boost
China has every right to be pleased with the U.S.-Russia agreement on Syria, which has returned the United Nations to center stage.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 17, 2013
Obama didn't sell war hard enough
War is what America does best, war is what America does most. So why couldn't U.S. President Barack Obama get public support for a strike on Syria
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 17, 2013
Why the West misread Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin's end goal in his Syrian diplomatic initiative is to put the U.S. back into the U.N. Security Council box.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Sep 17, 2013
First confusion, then 'we just started running'
Standing at an ATM in the first-floor atrium of the building where she works at the Washington Navy Yard, Patricia Ward was startled by a rapid succession of sharp noises that seemed to come from overhead.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 15, 2013
2013: A space conundrum
Long ago, in a dreamier era, space stations were imagined as portals to the heavens. In the 1968 movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," the huge structure twirled in orbit, aesthetically sublime, a relaxing way station for astronauts heading to the moon. It featured a Hilton and a Howard Johnson's.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 15, 2013
Auschwitz boss' daughter lives secret life in U.S.
Brigitte Hoss lives quietly on a leafy side street in Northern Virginia. She is retired now, having worked in a Washington fashion salon for more than 30 years. She recently was diagnosed with cancer and spends much of her days dealing with the medical consequences.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 13, 2013
The U.S. with Iran in Syria
America should grasp the opportunity for a diplomatic resolution to the Syrian crisis afforded by the Russian-Iranian plan.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 13, 2013
Obama's doomed relationship 'reset' with Russia
The failure of the U.S.-Russia relationship 'reset' should come as no surprise, owing to its deeply flawed foundations.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2013
If U.S. comes calling, will Abe back Syria strike?
With a comprehensive attempt under way to find a diplomatic solution in Syria, punitive U.S. military strikes planned for its alleged use of chemical weapons last month have been postponed after appearing imminent just a few days ago.

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