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...Minister Shinzo Abe last month elevated Japan's Defense Agency to a full-fledged Cabinet-level ministry, and is aiming to change the country's pacifist constitution, which could open the door for more frequent deployments of the SDF abroad. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's Feb. 20-22 visit to Tokyo included talks on expanding coordination between American and Japanese forces. "For the past 50 years, Japan intentionally ignored the matter of defense," says Toshiyuki Shikata, a defense analyst at Teikyo University. But now, he adds, Japan is waking up to its own military power...
...years younger. The inside walls of his living room were painted electric blue, and a gold vase of plastic flowers sat on the coffee table. There was a small television in the corner, and a telephone that mewed like a cat when someone rang. More than once on my visits in April, and again last August, Kwame repeated an adage that an old schoolteacher of his had used: there is no such thing as African time. "There is no store in the world that sells an African watch or an African clock. We all use the same clock," he told...
...disagrees that you “need eight semesters of hard work. Seven semesters is okay.” He admits that after two years, he wanted a break from the Harvard grind. Despite the unusually heavy workload Lesnikowski experienced for a semester abroad, he still found time to visit Croatia, Poland, Turkey and Vienna (twice...
Remember Your Childhood Indulge in a cinematic exploration that harks back to those glorious, care-free days of childhood with a visit to the New England Aquarium to see “Lions 3D: Roar of the Kalahari!” New England Aquarium, Adult...
...Cheney's visit comes at a time of growing unease in Tokyo that the U.S. and Japan may be drifting apart - and North Korea is one of the main causes. While Japan under new conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has favored maintaining a hard line against Pyongyang, the U.S. was seen by some here as backing down at the recent Six-Party Talks, which culminated in an agreement that will give North Korea up to 1 million tons in fuel aid in exchange for shutting down its nuclear program...