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WAR

WORLD
Jul 21, 2015
Islamic State cracks down on Internet use in Syrian stronghold: monitor
Islamic State militants raided Internet cafes in their Syrian stronghold city of Raqqa after ordering a ban on wireless networks that can be used by private homes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 21, 2015
'Not a hero' McCain returns fire, tells Trump to apologize to U.S. military families
Sen. John McCain urged Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday to apologize to U.S. military families for saying prisoners of war are not heroes, in his first direct response to Trump's remarks.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 20, 2015
Republican rivals: Unapologetic Trump's denial of McCain's war hero status disqualifies him
Presidential candidate Donald Trump refused on Sunday to apologize for his remarks about the war record of U.S. Sen. John McCain despite a growing firestorm among fellow Republicans, and said he had no plans to drop out of the race.
WORLD
Jul 19, 2015
Czech Foreign Ministry says five nationals are missing in Lebanon
Five Czechs and their Lebanese driver are missing in Lebanon, a spokeswoman for the Czech Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 18, 2015
'A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding' frames the universal horror of atomic weapons
Nagasaki is a popular setting for novels about Japan. During the years when Japan shut itself off from the world, the port town became a door left ajar, and some of the appeal for novelists is the enduring frontier myth the city has cultivated, with its easy blend of East and West.
WORLD
Jul 18, 2015
Islamic State suicide car bomb kills over 100 in Iraq
More than 100 people were killed in a suicide car bombing at a busy market in an Iraqi town on Friday, one of the deadliest attacks carried out by Islamic State militants since they overran large parts of the country.
WORLD
Jul 18, 2015
Islamic State forces accused of using poison gas on Kurds in northeast Syria
The Islamic State group used poison gas in attacks against Kurdish-controlled areas of northeastern Syria in late June, a Syrian Kurdish militia and a group monitoring the Syrian conflict said Saturday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 13, 2015
Zero fighter plane being prepped for first flight since WWII
Almost 70 years after it was flown by the Imperial Japanese Navy, a Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane is being prepared to once again take to the skies of Japan to mark the anniversary of the end of World War II.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 13, 2015
Only legalization can win the war on drugs
More people are dying as a consequence of the bloody war on drugs than by the consumption of illegal substances.
JAPAN / History
Jul 11, 2015
Chiune Sugihara: man of conscience
Chiune Sugihara, Japanese consul in Kaunas, Lithuania, awoke on the morning of July 18, 1940, to a disturbing sight. He peered through the curtains of his bedroom window just before 6 a.m. Sugihara and his wife had been living in the consulate building since their arrival at the end of August 1939, just...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 11, 2015
The effort to educate Syria's refugee children
Lebanon is doing all it can to educate the children of refugees from Syria's civil war, but it could use some help.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 6, 2015
Failure of new U.S. weapons systems may be more than science fiction
There is a belief that the U.S. and China will never go to war because they are economically interdependent. But a closer look at history should worry everyone.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 29, 2015
Shinzo Abe's pivot to Asia
Abe should use his speech marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II as an occasion to reinforce the image of Japan as a positive force in Asia.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Jun 27, 2015
'Harp of Burma' is an adventure story concealing weighty themes
"Harp of Burma" was published in Japan in 1946, but it would be 20 years before Michio Takeyama's story of Japanese soldiers stranded in Burma after the close of World War II was translated into English. In fact, Kon Ichikawa got there first in 1956, with his stark cinematic adaptation, "Biruma no Tategoto"...
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 22, 2015
The living legacy of the Helsinki Declaration
with the resurgence of armed conflict in Europe challenging the Helsinki Final Act's fundamental principles, the 40th anniversary of its signing has taken on new meaning.

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