By Bennett Richardson | Contributor to The Christian Science MonitorTOKYO ? When Japanese soldiers crossed over into Iraq Monday, it marked the first time the nation's troops entered a combat zone since World War II.But the send-off for this 40-person advance team was not the splashy news event one might have expected. Television coverage was mostly limited to file … [Read more...] about -Japan limits media coverage of Iraq war
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-Japanese Discrimination Against Korean and other Ethnic Schools
by Eriko Arita For half a century, Japan has permitted ethnic minorities, notably Koreans, to run their own schools while refusing to recognize these schools' graduates by denying their students the right to sit for entrance examinations at national universities. The controversy has centered above all on the rights of graduates of pro-North Korean schools. The issues came to … [Read more...] about -Japanese Discrimination Against Korean and other Ethnic Schools
-Will Japan Follow the U.S. Lead and instigate a new Korean War? Read this and then consider curre
Wrong Again:US policy on North Koreaby Bruce CumingsIn June 1994, Bill Clinton came close to launching a 'pre-emptive strike' against North Korea's nuclear reactors at Yongbyon, about sixty miles north of Pyongyang. Then, at the last minute, Jimmy Carter got North Korea to agree to a complete freeze on activity at the Yongbyon complex, and a Framework Agreement was signed … [Read more...] about -Will Japan Follow the U.S. Lead and instigate a new Korean War? Read this and then consider curre
-America’s Empire of Bases
by Chalmers JohnsonAs distinct from other peoples, most Americans do not recognize -- or do not want to recognize -- that the United States dominates the world through its military power. Due to government secrecy, our citizens are often ignorant of the fact that our garrisons encircle the planet. This vast network of American bases on every continent except Antarctica … [Read more...] about -America’s Empire of Bases
-Japan Through the Eyes of a “Quasi-Refugee”
by Suh KyungsikWHAT IT MEANS TO BE A QUASI-REFUGEE I first became aware of the relevance of the idea of refugee to my own life when I read Ghassan Kanafani's writing in the late 1970s. Kanafani (b. 1936), a Palestinian refugee, was a spokesman for the People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In 1972 he was assassinated in Beirut by a car bomb. … [Read more...] about -Japan Through the Eyes of a “Quasi-Refugee”