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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Japan Times :: Tuesday, August 31, 2010





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  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    DPJ ranks seek to ward off fatal Kan-Ozawa clash
    Rivals to meet in hopes of averting party fracture
    Kyodo News
    Senior lawmakers of the Democratic Party of Japan stepped up efforts Monday to allay the rising tension between Prime Minister Naoto Kan and party bigwig Ichiro Ozawa over their expected showdown in the DPJ's Sept. 14 leadership election.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100831a1.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    GSDF holds live-fire drill at Fuji
    Kyodo News
    About 2,400 Ground Self-Defense Force personnel took part in an annual live-fire drill Sunday at the foot of Mount Fuji, using around 44 tons of ammunition in front of an estimated 28,000 spectators.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100831b2.html
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Monday, August 30, 2010

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Sunday, August 29, 2010

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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Japan Times :: Saturday, August 28, 2010





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  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Execution chamber opened to reporters
    By MINORU MATSUTANI, Staff writer
    The Tokyo Detention House execution chamber is shown to the media, giving the public its first peek at the place where death-row inmates are hanged.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100828a1.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Battle heats up between rival Kan, Ozawa camps
    Kyodo News
    Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers intensify their efforts to whip up support for the two contenders in the ruling party's presidential election, Prime Minister Naoto Kan and longtime kingpin Ichiro Ozawa.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100828a2.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Q&A
    Shedding light on death penalty
    Japan part of a shrinking roster of nations with capital punishment
    By MINORU MATSUTANI, Staff writer
    Justice Minister Keiko Chiba, who will probably be replaced next month because she lost her Diet seat in the July 11 Upper House election, allowed journalists for the first time Friday to enter the Tokyo Detention House's execution chamber.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100828a3.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Relax arms export ban so firms can profit: panel
    By MASAMI ITO, Staff writer
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100828a5.html

  • [JT EDITORIAL]
    Mr. Ozawa back in the race
    Former secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan, Mr. Ichiro Ozawa, announced Thursday that he will run in the Sept. 14 election for the next DPJ chief against Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who had expressed his intention to run. The two must do their utmost to prevent their duel from becoming an internecine power struggle.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/ed20100828a1.html
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Friday, August 27, 2010

Japan Times :: Friday, August 27, 2010





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  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Ozawa to challenge Kan for DPJ helm
    By MASAMI ITO, Staff writer
    Democratic Party of Japan heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa breaks his silence to announce he will run against Prime Minister Naoto Kan in the ruling DPJ's Sept. 14 presidential election, raising the possibility of a third prime minister in a year if he wins.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100827a1.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Fight will reshape political landscape
    By JUN HONGO, Staff writer
    Pundits are split over who will win the Democratic Party of Japan's presidential election, but agree that regardless of who takes the big prize, the outcome will drastically change the political landscape and could throw the nation's leadership into even further disarray.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100827a2.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Foreigners can vote for DPJ leader
    ¥2,000 annual fee to sign up as a party supporter is all it takes
    By ALEX MARTIN, Staff writer
    As the Democratic Party of Japan's presidential election nears, an interesting fact has surfaced regarding internal regulations on who gets to vote for the ruling party's leader — and effectively the prime minister.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100827a3.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Public flabbergasted by Ozawa election bid
    Kyodo News
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100827a4.html

  • [JT EDITORIAL]
    Flagrant disregard of disclosure
    The 6th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters in Hiroshima has held 22 news conferences, at the urging of the media, to address the Aug. 18 crash of a coast guard helicopter in the Inland Sea. This is due to the headquarters' attempt to hide information regarding circumstances of the accident. Its behavior has betrayed public trust in the Japan Coast Guard.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/ed20100827a1.html

  • [FILMS]
    Lust, power, death and deception -- welcome to paradise
    By MARK SCHILLING
    It's a common fantasy — being the only guy on an island of beautiful women. But to be the only woman on an island of men, including the good, the bad and the ugly? Somewhat different, isn't it?
    That is the situation in which Okinawan Kazuko Higa found herself toward the end of World War II, when she was stranded together with nearly 30 Japanese men on the island of Anatahan in the Marianas group. The war ended, but the men refused to admit defeat — and continued to live a primitive life on the island. Higa deftly transferred her affections from suitor to suitor, while several died competing for her favors.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/ff20100827a3.html
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Japan Times :: Wednesday, August 25, 2010





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  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    U.S. proposes new base flight paths
    Okinawa residents expected to balk at noisier, more dangerous proposed routes for military jets
    Kyodo News
    The United States has proposed a major change in aircraft flight routes for the planned relocation base for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa that could worsen noise levels and pose risks to residential areas, diplomatic sources said Tuesday.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100825a1.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Isle tour for seniors used Russian visas
    Compiled from Kyodo, Staff report
    A trip to a Russian-held island off Hokkaido involving Japanese tourists on Russian visas raised eyebrows in the government Tuesday, with Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku expressing concern the trip runs counter to Japan's territorial claim.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100825a4.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Tanker damaged in Hormuz arrives
    Kyodo News
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100825a6.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Nursing exam to include English translation
    Kyodo News
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100825b1.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Exhibit shows struggle of 'comfort women'
    By KEIJI HIRANO, Kyodo News
    An exhibition to look back on developments over the past 10 years in addressing wartime sexual slavery is now under way at a Tokyo museum and resource center on the former "comfort women."
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100825f4.html

  • [JT EDITORIAL]
    Rising pitch for power
    Political maneuvering by groups within the Democratic Party of Japan has become rampant as an election on Sept. 14 of the party's next top leader approaches.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/ed20100825a1.html

  • [JT EDITORIAL]
    Don't shrink the Diet
    At the instruction of Prime Minister Naoto Kan, the Democratic Party of Japan created a team to discuss reducing the number of Diet seats with the opposition forces. Mr. Kan says that because the government will have to ask people to shoulder a heavier financial burden in the reconstruction of state finances, Diet members will also have to make sacrifices.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/ed20100825a2.html
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

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Monday, August 23, 2010

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Sunday, August 22, 2010

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Saturday, August 21, 2010

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Friday, August 20, 2010

Japan Times :: Friday, August 20, 2010





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  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Ozawa seen eyeing run for DPJ helm
    Decision could come as early as next week
    Kyodo News
    Democratic Party of Japan kingpin Ichiro Ozawa may run in the ruling party's presidential election next month, sources said Thursday.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100820a1.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Tanker blast damage bigger than thought
    Kyodo News
    The Chiba-bound supertanker that was apparently attacked last month in the Strait of Hormuz sustained a larger impact dent, presumably from explosives, below the waterline than previously thought, the transport ministry has revealed.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100820a5.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Okada cements plans to repost top bureaucrats
    Kyodo News
    Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada has finalized plans for reshuffling senior ministry officials, including appointing Koro Bessho, deputy vice minister for foreign policy, as new deputy foreign minister for political affairs, ministry sources have said.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100820b1.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    SDP approves Tsujimoto's secession
    Kyodo News
    The Social Democratic Party on Thursday approved House of Representatives lawmaker Kiyomi Tsujimoto's secession from the tiny opposition force, refraining from punishing her for leaving.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100820b2.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Ginowan mayor to run for governor
    NAHA, Okinawa Pref. (Kyodo) The mayor of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, conveyed to supporters Thursday his intention to run for governor, sources said.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100820b3.html

  • [JT EDITORIAL]
    Dealing with disaster
    Every day another deluge. Pakistan is battling what the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs calls "the worst monsoon-related floods in living memory." Rains have triggered landslides in China that have claimed more than 1,000 lives. In Russia, rain would be welcome: Wild fires have raged for weeks, burning 2 million, destroying 4,000 homes and creating a smoggy hell for Muscovites. In each case, the government response has been criticized for being slow, late or ineffectual. While some of them may seem obvious or banal, there are lessons to be learned in how to respond to such disasters.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/ed20100820a1.html
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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Another 'pearl' in Beijing's string of ports

    Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010
    By MICHAEL RICHARDSON

    A newly constructed harbor at Hambantota, near Sri Lanka's southern tip, began filling with water recently in readiness for the first ships in November. The port — which will have a water depth of 17 meters, making it one of the deepest in South Asia — has been carved out of coastal land in a joint venture between the Chinese and Sri Lankan governments.

    China's involvement has inevitably raised speculation that Hambantota is the latest jewel in a so-called string of pearls that will pave the way for China's rapidly expanding navy to operate routinely in the Indian Ocean from secure bases in the region.

    The aim would be to challenge U.S. and Indian naval dominance in the area and ensure that China itself could protect vital trade and energy supply lines instead of having to rely on potentially hostile powers. Already, China imports over half the oil it needs and at least 75 percent is shipped across the Indian Ocean from the Persian Gulf and Africa. Moreover, China's dependence on imported oil needed to run its modern land, sea and air transport is rising.

    If direct protection of Chinese trade routes and other interests in the Indian Ocean is indeed the objective of those in China supporting development of a blue water fleet able to project power over long distances, there is still a great deal of work to be done before the "string of pearls" becomes a network of naval and air bases remotely comparable to those India already has on its mainland and on its islands in the Andaman Sea guarding the western approaches to the Malacca Strait, or even to the joint U.S.-British base on Diego Garcia atoll in the mid-Indian Ocean.

    If China has ambitions to become an Indian Ocean military power, it is doing so by stealth, starting with commercial operations. Sri Lanka's official website says the first phase of Hambantota's development now being completed cost about $360 million, with 85 percent of the funding from the Chinese government and the remaining 15 percent from the Sri Lankan government.

    Unlike Sri Lanka's main port in the capital, Colombo, on the western flank of the island, and Trincomalee, a natural deep-water harbor on the northeast coast, Hambantota is located very close to a key junction of the main international shipping lanes linking Europe, Africa and the Middle East to Asia via the Straits of Malacca and Singapore.

    About 70,000 seagoing merchant vessels, from giant oil tankers to container ships and other cargo carriers, round the southern tip of Sri Lanka each year. Hambantota is hoping to induce some of these ships to refuel, replenish and trans-ship cargo to places like India, Myanmar and the Maldives through the new port and its associated facilities, taking business away from established regional maritime hubs, particularly Singapore, which is the world's busiest port and offers a wide range of maritime services.

    The Hambantota project is being built in four stages at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion. By the time work finishes in 2014, Hambantota will be able to handle 33 ships at a time. It will have extensive bunkering, cargo handling, storage, warehouse and trans-shipment capacity. It will also have ship-building and ship-repair yards, as well as a nearby industrial zone and airport. But it will still be small in comparison to major Asian ports such as Singapore, Hong Kong and those in Japan, China and South Korea.

    Still, some Indian analysts say that access to the harbor and airport will enable China to support its naval deployments in the region more effectively. However, the head of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority said earlier this month that China would have no role in operating Hambantota, although it had provided a loan and two Chinese construction companies, China Harbor Engineering Company and Sinhydro Corporation, were helping in the port construction.

    China has made similar loans to develop commercial port facilities at Gwadar, in Pakistan not far from the entrance to the Persian Gulf, and Chittagong in Bangladesh. Neither has yet yielded much commercial benefit, let alone assured naval access, for China.

    There are signs that Beijing is now seeking to do in the Indian Ocean what the U.S. military has done in Southeast Asia since the 1990s — establish a network of "places not bases" by negotiating country-by-country agreements allowing naval ships and, in some cases military aircraft as well as service personnel, to use base facilities that remain under the control of the host government.

    This approach avoids sensitivities about foreign bases violating national sovereignty. Applied in the Indian Ocean, it could help China avoid inflaming its already complicated relations with India, while still supporting Chinese naval operations.

    Since China started sending its navy on anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden and off the Horn of Africa in late 2008 to protect Chinese merchant vessels, its warships have called mainly at Salalah, in southern Oman, and to a lesser extent in Aden, Djibouti and Karachi, to refuel, replenish and allow crews to take shore leave.

    It may only be a matter of time before these port calls are upgraded to a series of formal agreements guaranteeing access and support for Chinese naval ships. Writing in the Jamestown China Brief last month (July), Daniel Kostecka, a senior China analyst with the U.S. Department of the Navy, said that such agreements might be negotiated for ports of particular importance to the Chinese navy's missions and presence in the Indian Ocean, such as Salalah, Aden and possibly Karachi, where there are ship-repair yards and the Chinese Navy has close ties with the Pakistan Navy.

    However, it seems highly unlikely that the commercial port facilities China has helped to build at Hambantota and Gwadar will be converted into bases for the Chinese Navy. Aside from the sovereignty issue, the costs of conversion to full-fledged military use would require billions of dollars in Chinese investment. Even then, they would be vulnerable to attack from highly accurate long-range missiles in a crisis.

    Michael Richardson is a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of South East Asian Studies in Singapore.

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Japan Times :: Thursday, August 19, 2010





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    [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Pre-'45 posts accounts top \4 billion
    19 million from war zones yet to claim savings
    NAGOYA (Kyodo) Japan Post Bank Co. is holding about ¥4.3 billion, including accrued interest, in nearly 19 million unclaimed savings accounts that were established in Japanese-administered territories up until 1945, sources said Wednesday.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100819a1.html

    [NATIONAL NEWS]
    GSDF choppers Pakistan-bound
    Kyodo News
    Ground Self-Defense Force helicopters will be sent to flood-hit Pakistan to provide disaster relief, government officials said Wednesday.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100819a3.html

    [NATIONAL NEWS]
    New U.S. documents pinpoint sites of Iwojima burials
    Kyodo News
    The government has found 83 new U.S. documents concerning the burial of remains of Japanese soldiers who died on Iwojima, one of the fiercest battlefields in the Pacific theater, government sources said Wednesday.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100819a8.html

    [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Frampton pens songs to abductee
    Kyodo News
    Peter Frampton, a British rock singer who attained worldwide fame in the 1970s, has released an album with two songs dedicated to Megumi Yokota, one of several Japanese women who remain missing after being abducted to North Korea decades ago.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100819b2.html

    [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Flickers of hope for nuke abolitionists
    Cause growing but 'realists' still hold upper hand
    By CHARLES J. HANLEY, The Associated Press
    HIROSHIMA — In Hiroshima, this place where a fearful age was born one fiery instant 65 years ago, the Flame of Peace still flickers on, awaiting the day when the world is rid of nuclear weapons.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100819f1.html

    [BUSINESS NEWS]
    ASIA SEMINARS
    Growing Asia should still engage U.S.
    Growing Asia should still engage U.S.
    For balanced regional development, security, China-centric world landscape must be avoided
    By TAKASHI KITAZUME, Staff writer
    The post-crisis geoeconomic trend threatens to create a division between Asia and the United States as Asian economies led by China continue to grow strong while the U.S. becomes more domestically focused, said Simon Tay, chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20100819d1.html

    [BUSINESS NEWS]
    ASIA SEMINARS
    Strikes at Japanese affiliates show lack of understanding the Chinese
    Strikes at Japanese affiliates show lack of understanding the Chinese
    By TAKASHI KITAZUME, Staff writer
    Japanese companies need to have a better understanding of the rapidly changing popular sentiments in China and improve communication with workers at their affiliated plants in the country, veteran journalists from local Chinese newspapers said at a recent seminar in Tokyo.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20100819d2.html

    [JT EDITORIAL]
    Corporate social responsibility
    On Aug. 4, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, the second and third richest men in the world, announced that 40 American billionaires had followed their lead in pledging to give half of their fortunes to charity. They plan to turn their efforts next to China and India.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/ed20100819a2.html

    [OPINION]
    Mixed views in rising China
    By FRANK CHING
    While voices in China continue to be raised against American naval exercises near the China coast and asserting Beijing's increased influence in global affairs, other voices are now being heard questioning the wisdom of China's increasing assertiveness.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/eo20100819fc.html

    [OPINION]
    Another 'pearl' in Beijing's string of ports
    By MICHAEL RICHARDSON
    A newly constructed harbor at Hambantota, near Sri Lanka's southern tip, began filling with water recently in readiness for the first ships in November. The port — which will have a water depth of 17 meters, making it one of the deepest in South Asia — has been carved out of coastal land in a joint venture between the Chinese and Sri Lankan governments.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/eo20100819mr.html
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Japan Times :: Tuesday, August 17, 2010





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  • [BUSINESS NEWS]
    China edges Japan as No. 2 economy
    GDP growth in April-June slows to annualized 0.4%
    Compiled from AP, Kyodo
    Japan lost its place to China as the world's No. 2 economy in the second quarter as receding global growth sapped momentum and stunted a shaky recovery.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20100817a1.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    U.S. fudges Senkaku security pact status
    WASHINGTON (Kyodo) The Obama administration has decided not to state explicitly that the Senkaku Islands, which are under Japan's control but claimed by China, are subject to the Japan-U.S. security treaty, in a shift from the position of George W. Bush, sources said Monday.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100817a1.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    U.S. forces told America-made baby monitors mar radio signals
    NAGOYA (Kyodo) The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry has warned the U.S. forces in Japan over unauthorized radio waves emitted by baby monitors used in the homes of military personnel because they disrupt taxi and trucking company radio transmissions.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100817a2.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Artifact transfer may cause friction
    Ownership question could keep in Japan some Korean items seized during colonial rule
    Kyodo News
    Despite Prime Minister Naoto Kan's promise last week to give back artifacts to South Korea taken from the Korean Peninsula during Japan's colonial rule, major differences on the matter between the two countries could lead to a new diplomatic flash point, experts say.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100817a3.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Ozawa grilling to come after DPJ poll
    Kyodo News
    Prosecutors plan to question Ichiro Ozawa on a voluntary basis for a fourth time over misreported funds, but not until after the Sept. 14 election for president of the Democratic Party of Japan, sources said Monday.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100817a5.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    JETs press to keep program intact
    NEW YORK (Kyodo) U.S. alumni of the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program are calling on the Japanese government to continue the international exchange and teaching program, now under review for spending cuts, saying it is essential for bilateral understanding.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100817a8.html

  • [JT EDITORIAL]
    Redressing rights violations
    In mid-June, Justice Minister Keiko Chiba and two lieutenants at her ministry — both Diet members — disclosed in an interim report the idea of creating a new commission to redress human rights violations. The report calls for setting up a new human rights protection commission as an extra-ministerial bureau of the Cabinet Office. It is not known when the Kan administration will send a related bill to the Diet. It must do its utmost to ensure the independence of the planned body.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/ed20100817a1.html

  • [JT EDITORIAL]
    Salaries of public servants
    The National Personnel Authority on Aug. 10 recommended cutting the salaries of national public servants by an average 1.5 percent, or ¥94,000 yearly, and reducing their annual bonuses to 3.95 months worth of salary from the current 4.15 months.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/ed20100817a2.html

  • [LIFE IN JAPAN]
    ZEIT GIST
    Appeals to culture, tradition ignore the historical facts
    Small-scale hunts of past don't justify trips into Australia's backyard, argues Chris Burgess
    By CHRIS BURGESS
    In the upcoming Australian general election, there is one issue that the major parties unanimously agree on: opposition to Japanese whaling. Voters are overwhelmingly antagonistic to whaling and Australian politicians have demonstrated an increasing willingness to listen to public opinion.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fl20100817a1.html

  • [LIFE IN JAPAN]
    THE ZEIT GIST
    Racist undercurrents taint whaling rhetoric
    Dougal McNeill sees uncomfortable parallels with past anti-Asian campaigns in Australasia debate
    By DOUGAL MCNEILL
    Sea Shepherd's Web site describes him as "the first New Zealander to be taken as a prisoner of war from the Southern Ocean to Japan," and there is no doubting Peter Bethune's popularity in this country. His trial in Tokyo earlier this year for interfering with Japan's annual whale hunt dominated New Zealand media, and direct action at sea connects with long-standing cultural currents to do with whales and whaling.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fl20100817zg.html
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Monday, August 16, 2010

Japan Times :: Monday, August 16, 2010





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  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Kan expresses remorse for casualties of war
    DPJ chief vows to pursue peace on surrender's 65th anniversary
    By ALEX MARTIN, Staff writer
    Commemorating 65 years since the end of World War II, Prime Minister Naoto Kan delivered a speech Sunday expressing deep remorse for the damage Japan inflicted on its neighbors and its own people during the war, vowing to work toward global peace.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100816a1.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Cabinet skips visit to Yasukuni
    Unified effort to avoid political strife ends ritual's 30-year streak
    By KAZUAKI NAGATA, Staff writer
    In a rare move, Prime Minister Naoto Kan and his entire Cabinet opted not to visit Yasukuni Shrine on Sunday, the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II, avoiding a ritual that has become a constant source of friction with South Korea and China.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100816a2.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Shrine decision draws both praise and protest
    By MIZUHO AOKI and KAZUAKI NAGATA, Staff writers
    Peace activists rejoiced Sunday over the fact that Prime Minister Naoto Kan and his Cabinet didn't visit Yasukuni Shrine this year, while conservatives slammed the decision.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100816a3.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Soviet attack trumped A-bomb role: historian
    BRUSSELS (AP) As the United States dropped its atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, 1.6 million Soviet troops launched a surprise attack on the Imperial Japanese Army in East Asia. Within days, Emperor Hirohito's million-man army in the region had collapsed.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100816a4.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    China, Japan stick to negative views
    Kyodo News
    About 70 percent of Japanese and 60 percent of Chinese have negative impressions of each others' countries on food safety, historical differences and a bilateral dispute over resource development, according to the results of a poll released Saturday.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100816a5.html

  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Two marines arrested in Okinawa
    NAHA, Okinawa Pref. (Kyodo) A 19-year-old U.S. Marine has been arrested on suspicion of stealing and a 33-year-old U.S. airman for an alleged traffic violation in separate cases in Okinawa Prefecture, the police said Sunday.
    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100816a8.html
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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Japan Times :: Sunday, August 15, 2010





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  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Japan to join Hague child-custody treaty in '11
    Move to return 'abducted' kids to home countries
    Kyodo News
    Japan will become a party to a global treaty on child custody as early as next year amid growing calls abroad for Tokyo to join it and help resolve custody problems resulting from failed international marriages, government sources said Saturday.
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  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Beijing proposes maritime measures
    Kyodo News
    China has proposed to Japan specific measures aimed at building a maritime communication system between defense officials of the two governments to prevent accidental clashes in the East China Sea and other waters, sources with the Japanese and Chinese governments said Saturday.
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  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Hibakusha filmed before time runs out
    By MIZUHO AOKI, Staff writer
    An American filmmaker recorded the images and voices of aging atomic-bomb survivors so they could pass down their memories to younger generations and make them think more about nuclear weapons.
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  • [MEDIA]
    BIG IN JAPAN
    Does cost of peace consign the Japanese to frailty or strength?
    By MICHAEL HOFFMAN
    A series of articles in the Aug. 1 edition of The Big Issue Japan, a biweekly magazine sold by homeless people, is addressed "to adults who have never known war." Few major powers, past or present, can equal Japan in that regard. Sixty-five years of peace in a bellicose world have turned war in this country into a fading memory, fading all the faster due to the education system's tendency to avoid the issues raised by the last war. No Japanese under 65 has "known war"; none under 80 is likely to have fought in one. Few under 50 can even imagine such a thing.
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  • [LIFE IN JAPAN]
    JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
    Japan annexes Korea, apology accepted after 600 years, Osamu Tezuka's first full-length animation
    By EDAN CORKILL
    100 YEARS AGO
    Sunday, Aug. 28, 1910
    Korea annexation
    We are reliably informed that the Treaty of Union between Japan and Korea was signed on the 22nd, and that its principal features are as follows:
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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Japan Times :: Saturday, August 14, 2010





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  • [NATIONAL NEWS]
    Futenma noise compensation unchallenged
    NAHA, Okinawa Pref. (Kyodo) A high court ruling that ordered the state to pay compensation to residents near a U.S. military base in Okinawa over aircraft noise was partly finalized Thursday as the government did not file an appeal against the decision by the deadline the same day.
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    Kan apology irks 'all North Koreans': envoy
    PYONGYANG (Kyodo) North Korea is "disappointed" by Prime Minister Naoto Kan's recent apology only to South Korea for Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, a senior North Korean official said Friday.
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  • [OPINION]
    North Korea's 'Dear Leader' cleans house
    By LEE BYONG CHUL
    SEOUL — There was a time, not long after the Cold War's end, when almost everyone assumed that North Korea would soon collapse. The sudden death in 1994 of Kim Il Sung, the founder of the tyrannical, economically disastrous North Korean experiment, reinforced this belief. That was then.
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Friday, August 13, 2010

Japan Times :: Friday, August 13, 2010

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