Posts About Japan
Abe Visits Yasukuni Shrine
Hong Kong - Japan's media will report that Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, paid a secret visit to Yasukuni Shrine.
U.S. Must Now Protect Japan
China/USA - China won't be helpful at all in disarming the North Koreans. Only the U.S. can save Tokyo from being nuked now.
An Explosion of Japanese Nationalism
Tokyo, Japan - After Sunday's explosion, Japan's new hawkish Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, might bring nationalism and nukes to foreign policy.
North Korea Doesn't Threaten Me
New Delhi, India - To deny North Korea food would mean punishing its people, not its government. Bottom line: Japan needs nukes too.
Costly Oil and Unrealized Markets Hurt Asia
Cairo, Egypt - When discussing the economic relationship between the Middle East and Asia one is discussing oil. Other aspects to their relationship include finance, construction, development, and the potential for the Middle East to be an emerging export market....
French Kids Are Coming
The Anglo-Saxon market economy is widely regarded as superior to other economic models, including the French, in many ways. But the French system has succeeded in the single most important realm: producing future generations.
S. Korea, Pull Kim's Financial Plug
Tokyo, Japan - The three billion U.S. dollars per year meant to prevent mass starvation must stop. It's funding nukes.
U.S. Must See India and China as Diplomatic Allies
Tokyo, Japan - Three Asian countries out of the world's top five energy consumers are conspicuously missing from the international efforts to end the crisis in Middle East. This, however, does not mean that China, Japan and India are not interested in stability. Quite the contrary....
Strike: Chastise That Naughty Boy!
Tokyo, Japan -- North Korea has been toying with dangerous weapons for so long, wrongly hoping that it can intimidate neighboring grown-ups. It is time to teach the ill-bred child that bad behaviors are not tolerated in the real world....
Iran Needs Much More Than Military Power
Tokyo -- Iran has lots of housekeeping jobs to do before it even dreams of being the dominant power in the Middle East....
China’s Premier in Japan: Melting Ice or Stoking Fire?
China’s Premier Wen Jiabao travels to Japan this week in what he is calling an “ice melting” visit, the first such visit since 2000. Why are China's leaders so eager to warm relations across the Sea of Japan?
Martin Scorsese's Movie, The Departed, Weakens Hong Kong Classic
The movie The Departed -- a remake of the Hong Kong classic Infernal Affairs -- may be the hottest movie of the year in America, but here in Asia most critics and movie-goers agree that the original is far superior.
Democracy Takes Time
Paris, France -- The war in Iraq shows us, in retrospect, that the USA was right not to intervene in the Hungarian upheaval of 1956. It would have unleashed a bloody and protracted war in Europe, even if it ended in victory. Thirty-five years after the failed revolt in Hungary, the whole Soviet block collapsed from inside without any bloodshed....
PostGlobal Bloggers
M. J. Akbar, New Delhi, India Mubashar Jawed Akbar is a leading Indian journalist and author. He's the founder and editor-in-chief of The Asian Age, a daily multi-edition Indian newspaper with a global perspective and editor-in-chief of The Deccan Chronicle, a news daily based in Hyderabad. He has written books including Blood Brothers, Nehru: The Making of India, Kashmir: Behind the Vale, Riot After Riot, The Shade of Swords, and India: The Siege Within. Kyoko Altman, Hong Kong, China Kyoko Altman is a writer based in Hong Kong. She has worked as a correspondent and anchor for CNN and...
Tread Softly, Make China Responsible
Taiwan has been effectively independent from mainland China for a very long time, and the islanders should have the right to decide their own destiny. But President Chen should pursue this goal with utmost caution. If he does not give Beijing an excuse for war, China will have to accept the consequences of acting aggressively -- which Japan and South Korea would not tolerate.
Equality = Industralization + Education
Seoul, South Korea - Women flood leadership positions where I live. Why? Because of industrialization, and education.
Mideast Stability Critical for Asia
Seoul, South Korea - The Asian Games slated to be held this year in Doha underscore the closing distance between Asia and the Middle East. The Middle East is Japan and South Korea's largest energy source and an increasingly vital oil supply line for China and India. These are the four biggest economies of Asia....
