'Unburdening'? Japan and S. Korea see unexpected thaw in relations.
As Japan and Korea prepare to mark 70 years since the end of World War II, signs of a thaw are emerging between the two US allies after years of a deepening freeze. This week, at a different...
View ArticleSouth Korea—chilly ties— / ROK media fanning anti-Japan sentiment
The Yomiuri ShimbunSouth Korean mass media reports on Japan have had undeniably grave ramifications on bilateral relations. For example, take Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Matsushima Air Base in...
View ArticleNot friends yet: Japan, South Korea mark 50-year treaty
TOKYO (AP) — Foreign ministers from Japan and South Korea are due to hold a rare meeting on the eve of the 50th...
View ArticleNot friends yet, but Japan and South Korea are talking
TOKYO (AP) -- Foreign ministers from Japan and South Korea held a rare meeting Sunday on the eve of the 50th anniversary of their countries normalizing relations marred by Japan's colonization and...
View ArticleNot friends yet: Japan, S. Korea marking 50-year treaty
TOKYO — Foreign ministers from Japan and South Korea are holding a rare meeting Sunday on the eve of the 50th anniversary since their countries normalized relations marred by Japan's colonization and...
View ArticleNot friends yet: Japan, S. Korea mark 50-year treaty
TOKYO (AP) -- Foreign ministers from Japan and South Korea are holding a rare meeting Sunday on the eve of the 50th anniversary since their countries normalized relations marred by Japan's colonization...
View ArticleJapan, S. Korea mark 50-year treaty
Yet, the ties between the most important U.S. allies in Asia are so low that one hoped-for outcome of the meeting is an agreement for the...
View ArticleJapan More Unpopular Than Ever in Korea
Public opinion in Korea has worsened significantly over the last decade, and now more than half of Koreans have a negative opinion of Japan, a survey suggests. The findings come from a poll by the...
View ArticleFleet review a sign that Japan-South Korea relations are improving
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — South Korea’s plans to join a Japan Self-Defense Forces fleet review next month may be a sign of warming relations between the United States’ most important allies in the Far...
View ArticleDonald Trump 'considering woman and gay man for top roles'
President-elect Donald Trump is considering a woman and an openly gay man to fill major positions in his new leadership team. It would be seen as history-making moves that would inject diversity into a...
View ArticleThe Next U.S. Foreign/Military Policy
From Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, October 2011 as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan appeared to be ending: There are those on the American political scene who are calling for us not to reposition...
View ArticleResults for the first nine months of 2016 (Legrand SA)
(Source: Legrand SA) 11/10/2016 07:30Results for the first nine months of 2016 Solid results in the first nine months of 2016 Healthy total growth in sales: +4.1% (including +2.1% organic growth) Rise...
View ArticlePM Lee Hsien Loong's interview with Wall Street Journal (WSJ) (Prime...
(Source: Prime Minister's Office of Singapore) Click on any of the links below to jump directly to the respective section, or scroll down for the full transcript of the interview. 1. On America's Role...
View ArticleClueless Trump Roils Relations in the Pacific
Asia considers how to defend itself when the U.S. becomes not an ally, but a business acquaintance. Despite the attention being given to America’s roiling wars and conflicts in the Greater Middle East,...
View ArticleThe Bush Administration, U.S. Nuclear War-Fighting Policy & the War On Iraq
“The most ambitious (damage limiting) strategy dictates a first strike capability against an enemy’s strategic offensive forces which seeks to destroy as much of his megatonnage as possible before it...
View ArticleMust They be Enemies? Russia, Putin and the US
Most Americans know very little about Russia, and what they do know is subverted by many decades of U.S. government anti-Soviet and anti-Russian propaganda. From 1917 to Dec. 26, 1991, when the USSR...
View ArticleAsia Power Women 2016
Director/Chairman Reliance Industries/Reliance Foundation See Story, Meet Nita Ambani, The First Lady Of Indian Business. Chairman & Managing Director State Bank of India Bhattacharya is facing her...
View ArticleThe Evolution Of Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs And The Bad Boy Family Through...
May 20 2016, 2:35 AM ET Share this article: The launch of VIBE was the definitive introduction of the power of Hip-Hop and culture to move the crowd. Before the Internet, before email, before social...
View Article“This Crooked System”
Summary I have no hope of getting justice in this crooked system. —Umar Daraz, Karachi, January 2016 How do you expect us to recover stolen items from hardened criminals? Do you think they will agree...
View ArticleAfter the Flash (American University)
(Source: American University) At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 2015, a large bronze bell tolled 10 times. Its haunting tone echoed throughout a city that aside from...
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