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COMMENTARY / World
Oct 15, 2000
Olympic success puts Sydney at the top
By Alan Goodall
SYDNEY -- So you liked watching the world’s best-ever Olympic Games? Wait, there’s more. Hold that remote control for the next sports extravaganza from Australia, the Sydney 2000 Paralympics.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 14, 2000
Cambodian media: cowed and corrupt
By Peter Eng
PHNOM PENH -- They don’t have to worry as much as before about getting shot on the street or having grenades thrown at their houses. But Cambodia’s journalists still labor under a government that doesn’t like dissent. And the country still has to put up with journalists who create problems for themselves...
COMMENTARY
Oct 14, 2000
Prospects are brightening for Ukraine
By Doug Bandow
KIEV -- Yugoslavia is in political crisis; Eastern Europe is yet again living up to its reputation for volatility. But recent elections have delivered both stability and hope further east.
COMMENTARY
Oct 13, 2000
Communists to ‘tolerate’ SDF
By Minoru Tada
The national convention of the Japan Communist Party is expected to approve a proposal in November to revise its charter in order to tolerate the mobilization of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces in a military emergency. The policy turnaround to match the party’s basic stance to reality was long overdue....
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 13, 2000
Will Arab fury translate into action?
By David Hirst
BEIRUT -- In his workshop in suburban Beirut, Reef Hammoudi has been painting Israeli and American flags at the rate of 50 a day, so high is the demand from people demonstrating in support of the new Palestinian “intifada.” He does them on nonabsorbant cloth just an hour or so before they are due for...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 12, 2000
In Labor’s moment of crisis, Blair delivers
By Glyn Ford
The recent Labor Party conference in Brighton saw Prime Minister Tony Blair in an unprecedented position. Set against a backdrop of enormous public discontent, evident in the response to the fuel strike by the major oil companies, the Labor Party staged its centenary conference. The phony peace that...
COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE
Oct 11, 2000
U.S. race is too close to call
By Bob Keefe
The 2000 U.S. presidential election campaign closely resembles a roller-coaster ride. The candidates are gyrating up and down in the polls, both in momentum and in spirit.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 9, 2000
Palestinians fight decades of injustice
By Sam Bahour
AL-BIREH, West Bank -- Areen, my 6-year-old daughter, has been unusually quiet. This normally energetic, very talkative child could not fully understand why school was canceled on Saturday after she was dressed and ready to go. On Sunday, during the news broadcast of the death of 12-year-old Mohammed...
COMMENTARY
Oct 9, 2000
The crystal balls grow opaque
By Takamitsu Sawa
All kinds of “self-confident” experts make predictions in the mass media about the economy and politics. In Japan, such experts are rarely held accountable if they err in their predictions. In the late 1980s, when the bubble economy peaked, Japanese experts expressed the following opinions that later...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 9, 2000
Taiwan’s ‘experiment in government’ fails
By Andrew Perrin
TAIPEI -- The ground heaved and shook in Taiwan’s turbulent political landscape last Tuesday, and by the time the dust had cleared after the sudden resignation of Prime Minister Tang Fei, President Chen Shui-bian’s 5 month-old model for government -- in his words, “a government for all the people” --...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 9, 2000
ASEAN+3 gives Asia hope for the future
By George Sioris
CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- A new acronym emerged recently in the world of international relations: APT. For those unaware of its meaning, we translate: “ASEAN Plus Three,” i.e., the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus Japan, China and South Korea.
COMMENTARY
Oct 9, 2000
A chicken in every pot, TVs in every home
By Doug Bandow
WASHINGTON -- With a tough election looming in the United States, congressional Republicans have opened the Treasury to every interest group with a letterhead. Budget analysts Stephen Moore and Stephen Slivinski figure this Congress may end up as the biggest social spender since the 1970s.
Japan needs caregivers. Young Indians are answering the call.
Young people in India's northeast are increasingly studying Japanese in hopes of building new lives and careers in Japan.
Prior to launch, Japan ‘strongly urged’ China to reconsider missile test in Pacific
A missile is fired from a Chinese Navy nuclear-powered submarine on Monday.
Suspected Asian fraud ring exec served fresh warrant in Japan
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and Osaka Prefectural Police have issued arrest warrants for three people, including a suspected fraud network leader, over alleged immigration and residency violations.
Japan might be giving the currency market the silent treatment
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama has issued verbal warnings recently using the same language and the same tone, saying authorities “will take appropriate action at any time, as necessary.”
Japanese teen arrested for booting users off streaming service
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a 15-year-old boy for allegedly creating a malicious program and canceling subscription accounts on the Bandai Channel.
Japan bets on character IP to drive global growth
Born on social media platforms in 2022, Opanchu Usagi has become a major hit, especially among Generation Z.
Filmmaker explores history of discrimination against foreign nationals in Japan
Takashi Nishihara, the director of "Now and Then," in Tokyo on Wednesday. The director has spent 10 years traversing politically charged terrain while exploring youth-driven grassroots political movements that scrutinize the status quo.
Japanese nail salons are tourists’ new obsession
Tourists in Japan have always been interested in quintessentially Japanese approaches to modern culture, and, increasingly, visits to nail salons have become the new hot thing.
Okinawa’s prized seaweed under threat as oceans warm
Local harvesters gather <i>mozuku</i> during low tide at Hyakuna Beach in the city of Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture. As the planet warms, rising ocean temperatures are placing increasing pressure on the seaweed industry.
‘Defense,’ not ‘warfare,’ stressed as pacifist Japan beefs up capabilities
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi attends an annual training session near Mount Fuji at Higashifuji Training Field in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, on June 7.

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