Latest in Tag: Japan Highlight
Latest in Tag: Japan
Japan to build missile defence system targeting North Korea
System could heighten tensions with China
Pentagon chief calls for calm in Japan-China spat
“It is extremely important that diplomatic means on both sides be used to try to constructively resolve these issues”, says Panetta
Chinese anti-Japan island protests continue
Newly appointed Japanese ambassador dies in hospital
US waivers 11 nations complying with Sanctions placed on Iran
Nations complying with Iranian sanctions are granted waivers to aid them in diminishing imports from Iran
Momuntum builds in Chinese protests at Japanese embassy
Island row between the two countries
Russia asserts Pacific power at APEC summit
Kremlin hoping for major economic gains by playing a regional role
The empire smiles back: Taiwan’s Japanese cherry festival
By Benjamin Yeh / AFP Taiwan loves cherry blossoms. In fact, it loves almost everything Japanese. For a nation that ruled the island for 50 years, often with an iron fist, Japan has left a very favorable impression. In the latest triumph of Japanese soft power in its former colony, tens of thousands of Taiwanese have …
Japan’s resilience lessons
By Margareta Wahlström NEW YORK: Buried in the coverage of last year’s Great East Japan Earthquake is a success story of which the world should not lose sight, because it tells us much about how we manage risk in the 21st century. It is the story of how the Japanese people, through centuries of memory …
Japan’s revenge of the mandarins
By Masahiro Matsumura OSAKA: Ever since the huge earthquake that hit Japan’s Pacific coast at Tohoku on March 11, 2011, the country’s mass media has obsessively focused on the magnitude of the physical damage and the loss of life. Repeated broadcasts of traumatic video images of the great tsunami and the damaged nuclear reactors at the …