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JAPAN: Cloud of Asian Nuclear Rivalry Over Hiroshima
Getting India and Pakistan to abandon nuclear weapons is a tall order, but that is what peace activists, who gather in Hiroshima this week to mark the world's first atomic bombing, hope to see.POLITICS-JAPAN: New Premier has Little Room for Error
Japan's new prime minister Keizo Obuchi, named premier on Thursday, is counting on his low-key, consensual style to muster the political strength to pull Japan out of its worst post-war recession.POLITICS-JAPAN: New Leader Under Intense Public Scrutiny
The ruling party has chosen Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi as its new leader -- who will later assume the premiership -- to steer Japan out of its worst post-war economic crisis and help lift the rest of Asia from the doldrums.RIGHTS-JAPAN: Women Still Shackled to the Home
Japan is far from the most progressive nation when it comes to women's status, but a new government report shows that the old obstacles to gender equality may even be more deeply rooted in society than earlier thought.MONGOLIA: Herdsmen Learn A Lesson Or Two About Market Economy
Anxiety is written all over Tumurkhuyag's face as he watches strangers take their pick off a sampling plate and start to munch.POLITICS-JAPAN: Economic Crisis Causes Another Leader to Tumble
Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto resigned on Monday after a stunning defeat by his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in parliamentary elections, a public rebuke to the government's inadequate response to the economic crisis.DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN-MONGOLIA: Economic Reforms Exact Heavier Price On Women
Life had never been easy for Jinsmaa, who lives in a small arid town in the South Gobi Desert. But when the national government decided to embark on free market reforms nearly a decade ago, things got even tougher for her.JAPAN: Economic, Political Reforms At Stake in Elections
Raita Taguchi lost his job in one of Japan's leading machinery companies six months ago, and is now bent on voting for any party but the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Sunday's national parliamentary election.WOMEN-MONGOLIA: Economic Reforms Exact Heavier Price On Women
Life had never been easy for Jinsmaa, who lives in a small arid town in the South Gobi Desert. But when the national government decided to embark on free market reforms nearly a decade ago, things got even tougher for her.MONGOLIA: Economic Transition Gives Rise To Streetchildren
Nyamochir's family lives 200 km away from the capital, but the scrawny 14-year-old is never far from home these days. That's because he prefers to live on the streets, specifically inside a six-metre deep hole that actually holds part of Ulan Bator's heating system.ECONOMY: Japanese Urged to Look Beyond Asia
Latin American countries, having fully recovered from the economic shock in the last decade, are sounding a "wake-up" call to Japan to increase its presence in the region.DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN-MONGOLIA: Sputtering on Free Market Track
He lost his job three years ago and what he now makes from selling bedsheets and other wok here in the bustling capital of Mongolia is not even a third of what officials say a Mongolian family needs to live decently.DEVELOPMENT-MONGOLIA: Sputtering on Free Market Track
He lost his job three years ago and what he now makes from selling bedsheets and other work here in the bustling capital of Mongolia is not even a third of what officials say a Mongolian family needs to live decently.ECONOMY-JAPAN: Falling Yen May Drag the Rest of Asia With It
For the first time in ten years, Junko Shimzu and her family will spend their summer vacation not lazing on Waikiki Beach or some other exotic destination outside Japan, but at an ancestral home a mere three-hour drive from Tokyo.RELIGION BULLETIN-JAPAN: Cult Re-emerges With Recruits Thirsting For Spirituality
Its leader is in police custody and many of its former members marginalised, but the religious cult behind the deadly nerve gas attack on a Tokyo subway three years ago is attracting fresh recruits and revitalising itself.ENVIRONMENT-JAPAN: Not Warm Enough on Global Warming?
Japan may be a signatory to a global pact to curb global warming, but an international environmental group says Tokyo has to show a clearer commitment regarding the needed decrease in greenhouse gases.JAPAN: Cult Re-emerges With Recruits Thirsting for Spirituality
Its leader is in police custody and many of its former members marginalised, but the religious cult behind the deadly nerve gas attack on a Tokyo subway three years ago is attracting fresh recruits and revitalising itself.ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN-JAPAN: Incinerators’ Foul Fumes Choke Prefectures
Just a decade ago, Tokorozawa's lush forests and abundant wild flora beckoned to tens of thousands of cityfolk from nearby crowded Tokyo, who made their homes there.ENVIRONMENT-JAPAN: Incinerators’ Foul Fumes Choke Prefectures
Just a decade ago, Tokorozawa's lush forests and abundant wild flora beckoned to tens of thousands of cityfolk from nearby crowded Tokyo, who made their homes there.DISARMAMENT: Japan Speaks Loudly, But is Anyone Listening?
Japan should be wielding impressive clout as the world's biggest aid donor and a non-nuclear weapons state, but so far it is unable to do much except shake its head over nuclear tensions heating up in South Asia.JAPAN: Tojo, War Criminal, ‘Rehabilitated’ in New Film
A new Japanese movie is creating a row at home and abroad for glorifying Gen Hideki Tojo, the wartime leader who was hanged by Allied powers as a war criminal 50 years ago.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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