The new cabinet of Japan´s Primie Minister Abe continues its new nationalist and militarist line. After dispitaching F-15´s to the disputed Diaoyu or Senkaku Islands, to which both Japan, China and Taiwan lay claimes, the…
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When President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono hosts bilateral talks with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday the two leaders are expected to evaluate the progress of the Indonesia-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) to…
TOKYO: Nine U.S. F-22 stealth fighters were stationed at the U.S. Air Force’s Kadena base in Japan’s Okinawa for a four-month deployment, local media reported late Monday. The fighters that arrived at the base…
The Malthusian prediction from more than two hundred years ago that the world’s population would continue growing unchecked until the world starved from overpopulation is now proving false. Now experts are claiming that within…
In 2012 and even more so after last months land slide election victory of the LPD and prime Minister Abe, Japan has embarked on a militant nationalist path that causes Japan´s neighbors as well as…
Corruption and Cover-Up Lead to SPREAD – Rather than Containment – of Radiation from Fukushima Disaster We’ve previously noted: Japan has severely underplayed the amount of radiation from Fukushima, putting Japanese residents and U.S. navy sailors in jeopardy…
It is all about barbed wire, warnings and checkpoints. And to make it worse, Futenma air force base is right in the middle of an extremely densely populated urban area. Several middle-aged Japanese citizens are…
Dokdo or Takeshima? Almost simultaneously with the aggravation of the territorial dispute between China and Japan, a long-standing dispute has sharply escalated between Japan and South Korea over ownership of the Dokdo Islands (Korean name),…
It’s hard these days to be optimistic about Japan’s economy or have much faith in Japan as the Rising Sun, a global economic power, Asia’s industrial and technological powerhouse or about any other laudatory…
“Senkaku” or “Diaoyu”? The position of the main opponents. The crisis in Sino-Japanese relations broke out on Sept. 10, 2012, after Tokyo`s decision to buy out the Senkaku islands (in Chinese they are called the…