Japan’s new drift: Neo-conservative or neo-imperialist?

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Japan’s new drift: Neo-conservative or neo-imperialist?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com For a people who, to superficial appearances, convey an impression of extreme politeness, calmness and all-around good manners, some Japanese in quite high places are doing their best these days to alter this image. The Japanese have so many ways of saying, sorry, with so many gradations of […]

Pyongyang poker: N. Korea ups the ante with the U.S., Japan, S. Korea and China

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Pyongyang poker: N. Korea ups the ante with the U.S., Japan, S. Korea and China

John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Shortly after the Security Council unanimously condemned the recent North Korean missile launch and demanded that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea abandon nuclear testing, Pyongyang’s rulers decided to up the political ante. They announced that they are on the verge of a third nuclear test and for good […]

Japan finding unlikely allies in repelling Beijing’s campaign of ‘cartographical aggression’

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Japan finding unlikely allies in repelling Beijing’s campaign of ‘cartographical aggression’

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com MANILA — Japan is probing the possibilities of a most improbable alliance in a corner of Southeast Asia that once lay at the heart of the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.” The term “co-prosperity” was a euphemism for Imperial Japan’s policy of prospering off impoverished people from Burma […]

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