Japan

Japan Steps Up

January 21, 2014 4:33 pm

In this Monday, Jan. 20, 2014 photo provided by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, fishermen on boats drive bottlenose dolphins away during the selection process in Taiji, western Japan. Japanese fishermen have finished killing some of the 250 dolphins trapped recently in what activists say was the biggest roundup they have witnessed in the last four years. Sea Shepherd, best known for its anti-whaling activities, said the fishermen first selected 52 dolphins to keep alive for sale to aquariums and other customers. They included a rare albino calf and its mother. (AP Photo/Sea Shepherd Conservation Society) NO SALES

Energy and Environment

Group: Japan’s dolphin roundup biggest in 4 years

Washington Examiner -

January 21, 2014 3:16 pm

U.S. Amb. to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, Sparks Outrage Over Deep Concern for Local Tradition

Daniel Halper -

January 20, 2014 12:44 pm

Magazine

Foolish Consistency

The Scrapbook -

January 20, 2014 5:00 am

Lately, South Korean President Park Geun-hye has tried to dial down the anti-Japanese tone in Seoul, but many South Koreans now rate Japan as a security threat on par with, or exceeding, North Korea or China. (AP Photo/Jung Yeon-je, Pool)

Columnists

North Korea is Asia’s wild card

James Jay Carafano -

January 19, 2014 5:00 am

News

China-Japan disputes spill onto opinion pages

Matthew Pennington -

January 18, 2014 3:55 pm

Suntory Holdings Ltd., a privately owned Japanese company, announced on Monday the purchase of Beam Inc. for $13.6 billion.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Bruce Schreiner)

Beltway Confidential

Kentucky congressman: Jim Beam sale to Japan ‘a failure of our tax code’

Charlie Spiering -

January 15, 2014 5:00 am

Obama has yet to learn one of the important secrets about the world since 1945: However much the international community likes to condemn

Foreign Policy

Here’s the world’s dirty little secret — it loves ‘US imperialism’

Arthur Herman -

December 30, 2013 5:00 am

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, follows a Shinto priest to pay respect for the war dead at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. Abe visited Yasukuni war shrine in a move sure to infuriate China and South Korea. The visit to the shrine, which honors 2.5 million war dead including convicted class A war criminals, appears to be a departure from Abe's

Foreign Policy

US ‘disappointed’ by Japanese PM’s visit to war shrine

Meghashyam Mali -

December 26, 2013 5:00 am

A Chinese national flag billows in front of a building of Shandong Province Supreme People's Court in Jinan, in eastern China's Shandong province. (AP/Alexander F. Yuan)

Columnists

Coalition of democracies key to getting China to behave

James Jay Carafano -

December 16, 2013 5:00 am

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