Articles
Sorry, But Japan Still Can’t Get the War Right
TOKYO – After weeks of muddled statements, verbal gaffes and bungled photo ops, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made one thing unintentionally clear: He thinks...
Japan Assault Fleet Arrives at Pearl Harbor…Just For Practice
TOKYO – Warships from Japan’s Maritime Self Defense Force have making stops at the American naval base at Pearl Harbor for more than two decades. But it’s going...
Double-Secret Training For America’s Feuding Asian Allies
TOKYO – Even as Japan and South Korea engage in another round of trash-talk over historical issues, they are quietly – very, very quietly – continuing to...
Investors Are Betting That Japan Is at a Tipping Point
A few weeks ago I wrote a column entitled “The Barbarians Are Back,” which looked at how cash rich U.S. firms were drawing the attention of “activist investors”...
Japan Pulls Back on Denials of WWII Sex Slavery
(TOKYO) — Japan has acknowledged that it conducted only a limited investigation before claiming there was no official evidence that its imperial troops coerced...
Photo Essays
Microscopic Photos of the Elements
Ryoji Tanaka’s photographs may look like alien landscapes, but they are very much of this world. The organometallic chemist at Sagami Chemical Research Institute...
Mega Snow: James Whitlow Delano’s Buried Japan
Japan’s Aomori Prefecture might be at the same latitude as New York, but its climate can seem a lot more harsh. Nestled at the northernmost part of the country’s...
Articles from Around the Web
Hope in Japan That Shinzo Abe's' Abenomics' May Be a Cure
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic shock therapy, which combines a flood of cheap cash, fiscal stimulus and deregulation, is getting early results. ...
More South Koreans support developing nuclear weapons
Japan too is discussing such a move. SEOUL -- Perhaps it is merely basic human desire to keep up with the neighbors, but an increasing number of South Koreans are saying that...
Strategies: Japan Starts to Recharge After Two Lost Economic Decades
It's hard to tell if Japan's new experiments in economic policy will work in the long run, but they have already caused world markets to take notice. ...
Nothing entertaining in anti- Japan films, Chinese censor says
BEIJING -- China's film censors are offering hope for improved relations with Japan -- or at least, that appears to be the case at first glance. As a bitter standoff over a...
