The islands sit within a grouping known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, which is the subject of a long-running sovereignty dispute. As well as stirring deep nationalist emotions, the argument is important because of the potential for exploitation of undersea resources....
The Russian Revolution of 1905–07 considerably influenced the upsurge in the working-class and the democratic movement in Japan. In 1904 there were six strikes, involving 879 workers; in 1907 there were 57 strikes, involving about 10,000 workers. The Japanese Socialist Party was created in ...
16 incident in which a Russian patrol boat fired on a Japanese crab fishing vessel near a disputed island and killed a crew member. FOCUS: Japan in dilemma in resolving territorial dispute with Russia TOKYO - Two Japanese crab fishing boats are refusing to leave waters off North Korea despite...
the Russian Federation, South Korea and Taiwan respectively. Ironically, it is these two contradictory forces which Tokyo should be worried about and the same applies to America. After all, at the moment it does appear that Japan is on its own when it comes to the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute. Th...
TOKYO -- Japan said its warplanes used flares to warn a Russian reconnaissance aircraft to leave northern Japanese airspace on Monday. Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara told reporters that the Russian Il-38 plane breached Japan’s airspace above Rebun Island, just off the coas...
Yet this was all already obvious in the Russian Revolution, when Lenin realized that the "workers" did not know how to run factories. Management by bureaucrats, on the other hand, as a solution, never worked well. Instead, it was a formula for self-interest and stagnation, as was already...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan said its warplanes used flares to warn a Russian reconnaissance aircraft to leave northern Japanese airspace on Monday. Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara told reporters that the Russian Il-38 plane breached Japan’s airspace above Rebun Island, just off the coast of...
territorial dispute South Korean city council lays claim to Japanese island in escalating territorial disputeSouth Korean city council lays claim to Japanese island in escalating territorial dispute
The Crab Cannery Ship is a novella about a season of crab fishing near the Russian peninsula of Kamchatka. Neither factory nor ship, local fishermen and other laborers from Hokkaido have to endure unspeakable hardships to feed their families, until, at last, there is an uprising… Upon the ...
to be located and documented -- SHINANO, off Cape Ushio, Japan; TAIHO, SHOKAKU, HIYO, in the Philippine Sea north of Yap Island; ZUIKAKU, ZUIHO, CHIYODA, CHITOSE off Cape Engano, Luzon; HIRYU and SORYU off Midway; SHOHO in the Coral Sea north of Misima Island; RYUJO off Guadalcanal....