Articles tagged with: politics
New challenge for Japan
Japan Poem Lover, an English news editor for over 20 years who covers developments on Japan’s political and economic scenes, has a new challenge for Japan when he asks: “Who is truly qualified to serve the …
Gwynne Dyer: Japan’s August election is a revolution
Hey BT’ers! I received this email today from a longtime reader. He asks: ” What do you think about the following article?” He continues by saying: “For me, the part that really stuck out was mentioning the …
Our Man in Abiko: Japan Election: The Morning After
Our Man in Abiko brings an easy to digest, and corrected, report on Japan’s election below. Before you get to Our Man in Abiko, here is an interesting tidbit on Yukio Hatoyama and the DPJ: …
How to prepare for the collapse of North Korea
Here is an interview with former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense Joseph Nye (whom I and many thought would become the US Ambassador to Japan). Dr. Nye says that the United States must confer with …
Who is US Ambassador to Japan John Roos?
The Nikkei Shimbun asked: “How good is the next ambassador to Japan, John Roos?” Check out the translation of their interviews with ex-Vice President Walter Mondale and Stanford University Professor Emeritus Daniel Okimoto below.
The U.S. …
Japan’s Leadership Deficit
Observing Japan’s Tobias Harris, doctoral candidate in political science at MIT, has written a great piece for the Far Eastern Economic Review on the lack of Japan’s leadership. Harris is the author of Observing Japan …
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