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Saturday, August 2, 2014

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News about Japan, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

  1. Jul. 17, 2014
    Nuclear plant in southern Japan clears initial safety hurdle that could make it the first nuclear facility to restart under new safety regulations designed after 2011 Fukushima disaster. MORE
  2. Jul. 12, 2014
    Strong earthquake hits Japan's northern coast near Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which was crippled in 2011 earthquake and tsunami; earthquake sets off minor, eight-inch tsunami and injures at least one person. MORE
  3. Jul. 10, 2014
    Japanese Prime Min Shinzo Abe appears to be slowing efforts to expand role of military after polls show significant drop in his administration's approval rating. MORE
  4. Jul. 5, 2014
    Chinese Pres Xi Jinping, during visit to South Korea, calls attention to China and Korea's allied fight against Japan in 1590s; analysts say statement shows that Xi's main purpose is to disturb America's alliances in Northeast Asia. MORE
  5. Jul. 3, 2014
    Editorial contends it is disturbing that Japan's Prime Min Shinzo Abe has reinterpreted his country's pacifist postwar Constitution so that military can be more assertive; asserts change has increased anxiety in region that needs to reduce tension. MORE

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Japan: Names Given to Disputed Islands

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Japan on Friday gave names to five uninhabited islets in an island group at the center of a territorial dispute with China as part of efforts to reinforce its claim, drawing quick condemnation from Beijing.
August 2, 2014, Saturday
MORE ON JAPAN AND: China , Japan , South China Sea , Vietnam

Confronting Sexuality and Identity in China

By KERRI MACDONALD
A chance conversation at a Beijing bar led Tomoko Kikuchi to explore the world of drag queens in a society where attitudes have slowly changed.
July 30, 2014, Wednesday

Private, Killed 70 Years Ago in the Pacific, Is Laid to Rest

By DAVID S. JOACHIM
Pfc. Randolph Allen, killed in 1943 in the Battle of Tarawa, was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Every year, the military identifies the remains of dozens of service members who died in the last century’s wars.
July 30, 2014, Wednesday

Behind the Cover Story: Elizabeth Green on America's Math Crisis

By RACHEL NOLAN
Elizabeth Green, a co-founder and the chief executive of Chalkbeat, wrote this week’s cover story about the Common Core and the challenges in overhauling the way math is taught. Here, she talks about why teachers in the U.S. are chronically...
July 28, 2014, Monday

China's Leaders Draw Lessons From War of 'Humiliation'

By CHRIS BUCKLEY
The 120th anniversary of the start of the First Sino-Japanese War has unleashed a spate of images, speeches and official commentary drawing lessons from China’s defeat.
July 28, 2014, Monday

Why Do Americans Stink at Math?

By ELIZABETH GREEN
The Common Core should finally improve math education. The problem is that no one has taught the teachers how to teach it.
July 27, 2014, Sunday

A Troubled Outlook for China-Japan Ties

By AUSTIN RAMZY
The decay in the countries’ relations “has spiraled beyond an island sovereignty dispute and risks an armed conflict neither wants,” the International Crisis Group says in a new report.
July 25, 2014, Friday

Hackers Find Way to Outwit Tough Security at Banking Sites

By NICOLE PERLROTH
A new cyberattack allows criminals to bypass the security mechanisms at banks in Austria, Japan, Switzerland and Sweden.
July 22, 2014, Tuesday

Abe Reinterprets Japan’s Constitution

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is taking a new approach to Japan’s post-war pacifist Constitution.
July 21, 2014, Monday
MORE ON JAPAN AND: Constitutions , Japan , Abe, Shinzo

Undermining China, One Knockout at a Time

By AMY QIN
An essay by a Chinese commentator that has been widely republished argues that the “highest level” of the cyberwar between the United States and China has included the insidious advance of American culture via the Internet.
July 17, 2014, Thursday
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Multimedia

In the Wake of Disaster interactive
In the Wake of Disaster
A year after the tsunami, communities in Japan are still grappling with how to assess the risk of radiation exposure.
Side-by-Side Look at Destruction and Renewal in Japan interactive
Side-by-Side Look at Destruction and Renewal in Japan
Toru Yamanaka, a photographer for Agence France-Presse, visited places in Japan destroyed by the March 2011 tsunami, photographing them from the same perspective that other photographers captured a year earlier.
Status of the Nuclear Reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant interactive
Status of the Nuclear Reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant
At the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant, explosions have damaged four of the buildings, and fuel is in danger of melting and releasing radioactive materials.
Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami multimedia
Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami
Compare satellite images of areas of Japan before and after the disaster.
Hazards of Storing Spent Fuel interactive
Hazards of Storing Spent Fuel
Dangerous conditions can occur if water drains from pools storing radioactive fuel rods.

Japan at a Glance

Official Name: Japan
Capital: Tokyo (Current local time)
Government Type: Constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government
Chief of State: Emperor Akihito represented by Shinzo Abe, prime minister
Population: 127.43 million
Area: 145,902 square miles; slightly smaller than California
GDP Per Capita: $33,100
Year of Independence: 660 B.C.
Web site: Kantei.go.jp

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Books


  • The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945
  • By John Toland, 1971
  • MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975
  • By Chalmers Johnson, 1982
  • Divided Sun: MITI and the Breakdown of Japanese High-Tech Industrial Policy, 1975-1993
  • By Scott Callon, 1995
  • We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs and the Forging of the Electronic Age
  • By Bob Johnston, 1998
  • A Japanese Mirror: Heroes and Villains of Japanese Culture
  • By Ian Buruma, 1984
  • "Shadow Shoguns: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Postwar Political Machine"
  • By Jacob Schlesinger, 1997
  • "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II"
  • By John Dower, 1999
  • "Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia"
  • By Richard Samuels, 2007

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