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This year marks the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. Three-quarters of Japan‘s population was born after the war.…
Yoichi Funabashi
Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry minces no words when he attacks President George W. Bush about his Iraq policy. Kerry calls the…
From 1946 to 1958, the United States conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands. The total volume translates into 7,000 Hiroshima-sized…
The Koizumi administration is in turmoil over the dispatch of the Self-Defense Forces to Iraq. According to public opinion polls, 70 to…
I visited Tinian Island in the western Pacific, the base from which the B-29 bomber Enola Gay took off to drop the…
“In the century and a half since (Commodore Matthew) Perry came to Japan, Japan-U.S. relations have probably never been better,” gushed Deputy…