The United States and the UN secretary-general have made a big mistake in urging Japanese officials to evade or eliminate the constitutional restrictions that prevent Japan from deploying military forces overseas. Their intentions may be admirable. Boutros Boutros-Ghali's pronouncements make clear ...
Does Japan even want an apology? Advertisement Likely not. A secret 2009 state department cable published by Wikileaks in 2011 indicated Japan was cool to the idea and worried that it would only serve to energize anti-nuclear activists in the country. ...
As is known to all, the problems and conflicts between China and Japan are both historical and contemporary. Since the late 19th century, Japanese imperialists had wreaked havoc throughout Asia, and especially in China, for almost 50 years. However, it not only refuses to reflect on its wart...
“The Japanese government does not desire or intend or expect to have forthwith armed conflict with the United States. . . . Were it a matter of placing bets, the undersigned would give odds of five to one that Japan and the United States will not be at ‘war’ on or before...
And so we remain caged in military thinking and the need to win, rather than understand. But as long as we feel no need to understand North Korea, we don’t have to bother trying to understand ourselves. Or face what we have done....
(though france, japan, russia and others have done interesting work with fish and amphibians.) even if you are just talking about recreational sex, sex is a part of life and not something nasa needs to hide from. no one is asking nasa to regulate the sexual activities of their flight ...
But it does have a critical mass. Otherwise it would not become critical. What you avoid in a well designed power reactor is 'prompt' criticality where an active core becomes supercritical on prompt neutrons only. Normally a critical reactor is stable on a fraction of pro...
In recent years, that narrative has been called into question. True, Japan remained feudal while European countries industrialized, but that does not mean the floating world was completely resistant to change. As Pitelka mentions in his lecture, Sakoku Japan was surprisingly urban. With around a ...
Question: Why did France join WW2? World War II and Europe: World War II (1939-1945) pitted Nazi Germany and its allies against France, Great Britain, and their allies. For the second time in 25 years, a massive war engulfed the continent. In many ways, World War II was just finishin...
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