Tag: Japan

Energy and Environment

Japan and US agree to swap organic imports

MARY CLARE JALONICK · September 25, 2013 9:00 pm

From left, Sen. Charles Schumer, D- N.Y., Ranking member Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Caroline Kennedy of New York and committee chairman Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., arrive for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee nomination hearing on Kennedy to be Ambassador to Japan, on Capitol Hill on Thursday.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Caroline Kennedy ‘humbled’ to carry forward JFK’s legacy in Japan

Steve Contorno · September 19, 2013 4:00 am

Department of Low Expectations

The Scrapbook · September 16, 2013 4:00 am

Japan’s Sun May Be Rising

Charles Wolf Jr. · August 19, 2013 4:00 am

A huge mushroom cloud raised the sky and about 70.000 people were killed after the throwing of second atomic bomb over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, only three days after the first bomb over Hiroshima. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

‘It wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing’ — Why dropping the A-Bombs was wrong

Timothy P. Carney · August 8, 2013 4:00 am

In this Sept. 8, 1945 photo, an allied correspondent stands in front of a building that once was a movie theater in Hiroshima, Japan, a month after the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was dropped by the U.S. on Aug. 6, 1945. (AP File)

Dropping the bomb on Japan: Right or wrong?

Washington Examiner · August 8, 2013 4:00 am

About one month after the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945, an allied correspondent examines the landscape of destruction at Hiroshima, Japan. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the right thing to do

Michael Barone · August 7, 2013 4:00 am

In this Sept. 8, 1945 photo, an allied correspondent stands in front of a building that once was a movie theater in Hiroshima, Japan, a month after the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was dropped by the U.S. on Aug. 6, 1945. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

It was wrong to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Timothy P. Carney · August 7, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama is nominating Caroline Kennedy as ambassador to Japan. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

Obama chooses Caroline Kennedy as ambassador to Japan

Susan Crabtree · July 24, 2013 4:00 am

Workers at the new Nissan plant in Smyrna, Tenn., work on the assembly line in May 1983. (AP Photo)

Detroit downsizes as Japan builds plants in the right-to-work South

Sean Higgins · July 24, 2013 4:00 am

Red Alert Politics

Young Americans most likely to oppose an Internet sales tax

Jack Butler · June 21, 2013 1:20 pm

Don’t Pivot to Beijing

Vance Serchuk · April 12, 2013 1:29 pm