From Japan Focus https://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=17&ItemID=9132George and Junichiro, two great buddies (if the Japanese media is to be believed) meet again, on 15 and 16 November, in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto. Since Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro is one of the dwindling band of ever-faithful Bush supporters, and since officials on both … [Read more...] about Okinawa and the Revamped US-Japan Alliance
嘘とごまかしの重ね塗り/Masuoka Ken’s latest posting
益岡 賢 2005年11月18日Read more in Japanese on this issues and more https://www.jca.apc.org/%7Ekmasuoka/Specifically:Colombia/コロンビア https://www.jca.apc.org/%7Ekmasuoka/places/colombia.htmlIraq/イラク https://www.jca.apc.org/%7Ekmasuoka/places/iraqtop.htmlAfganistan, Palestine-Israel, East Timor, U.S., Latin America アフガニスタン, パレスチナ／イスラエル, 東チモールおよびインドネシア, 米国, … [Read more...] about 嘘とごまかしの重ね塗り/Masuoka Ken’s latest posting
The Bush Plan to Bomb Al-Jazeera: Press Freedom or Freedom to Bomb the Press?
by Stephen SoldzReprinted from ZNETSee this version for full annotations: https://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=9182The British Daily Mirror newspaper reported today that, in April 2004, President Bush planned to bomb the independent Al-Jazeera television network headquarters in US ally Qatar. Tony Blair reportedly talked him out of it. In … [Read more...] about The Bush Plan to Bomb Al-Jazeera: Press Freedom or Freedom to Bomb the Press?
Power Politics and Willing Masses
By Kato ShuichiReprinted from JAPAN FOCUS, which has many articles on Japan and Asia from a more independent perspective than seen in the domestic Japanese or US press.The Sept. 11 Lower House election resulted in an overwhelming victory for the Liberal Democratic Party. Now the prospect that two great parties will alternate administrations in the manner of the prewar … [Read more...] about Power Politics and Willing Masses
Unit 731 and the Japanese Imperial Army’s Biological Warfare Program
By Tsuneishi KeiichiReprinted from JAPAN FOCUS, which has many articles on Japan and Asia from a more independent perspective than seen in the domestic Japanese or US press.[Japan's Unit 731 remains central to the fiercely contested China-Japan controversy over war crimes and war memory, and to the international debate on science and ethics. With a staff of more than … [Read more...] about Unit 731 and the Japanese Imperial Army’s Biological Warfare Program