ITALY What's in a name? If the name is Friday, shame and ridicule, according to Italian judges who banned a couple from naming their child like the character in Robinson Crusoe.
...A debate over flying saucers kept Japanese politicians occupied for much of last week, even d... by many in Asia as a symbol of Japan's militarism. 225 The value in dollars of an acre of land on th...
AFEW YEARS ago, nobody in Asia gave much thought to the Senkaku islands. They form a cluster of eight pimples in the East China Sea, mid-way between Taiwan and Japanese Okinawa, devoid of people, culture and -- by all accounts -- beauty. Yet suddenly, they have become the focus of a dispute between China and Japan which is growing so bitter that doomsters fear Beijing might even go to war over them.
... the world the nature of Japanese militarism. Tokyo's soldiers marched on the Chinese Nationali...
A YEAR ago relations between Japan and China were at rock bottom. So bad were the vibes that it was a case of 'please don't mention the war'. Under any circumstances. But that's just what Japan's prime minister Junichiro Koizumi had done by going out of his way to make a number of high-profile visits to the Yasukuni war shrine in Tokyo. Although its name means "peaceful country" the memorial and its adjoining museum are regarded as shrines to Japanese militarism from the Russo-Japanese war through various Sino-Japanese wars to the second world war and it doesn't help that among the 2.5 million names commemorated there, 18 are those of class A war criminals. At a time when the countries of south Asia were attempting to put their houses in order and strengthen their burgeoning economies,...
AFEW YEARS ago, nobody in Asia gave much thought to the Senkaku islands. They form a cluster of eight pimples in the East China Sea, mid-way between Taiwan and Japanese Okinawa, devoid of people, culture and -- by all accounts -- beauty. Yet suddenly, they have become the focus of a dispute between China and Japan which is growing so bitter that doomsters fear Beijing might even go to war over them.
... the world the nature of Japanese militarism. Tokyo's soldiers marched on the Chinese Nationali...
AFEW YEARS ago, nobody in Asia gave much thought to the Senkaku islands. They form a cluster of eight pimples in the East China Sea, mid-way between Taiwan and Japanese Okinawa, devoid of people, culture and -- by all accounts -- beauty. Yet suddenly, they have become the focus of a dispute between China and Japan which is growing so bitter that doomsters fear Beijing might even go to war over them.
... the world the nature of Japanese militarism. Tokyo's soldiers marched on the Chinese Nationali...
THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Antony Beevor (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Pounds 25) HEW STRACHAN MORE than 20 million Chinese died in the Second World War and some Chinese historians believe the real figure is twice that. If we are to come to grips with the rise of China at the start of this century, we need to be more aware of its history in the last one. Its war began before the war in Europe, with Japan's invasion in 1937, and ended after that, with a civil war lasting until 1949. The legacy of that war still continues in the state apparatus of the People's Republic.
... the murderous regimes of fascism and militarism. This does not mean that he underplays the horrors...
In the first decade of the 21st century, there can have been no more muscular critic of the Left than the conservative historian, Professor Niall Ferguson - darling of the American neo-conservative Right. Curious, therefore, that his latest book, Civilization, forecasts the imminent and catastrophic end of Western capitalism. Indeed, his thesis is not dissimilar to that of his bete noire, Karl Marx, in that Ferguson sees the collapse of the West as the result of its internal contradictions leading, not to a slow decline, but a catastrophic and rapid collapse following a profound financial crisis. "What we are living through," he says," is the end of 500 years of Western predominance".
... doesn't include imperialism, slavery, militarism, land enclosures, ruthless exploitation of workers... similar books in the 1980s forecasting that Japan would overtake America and take over the world. Ja...
Lacking the affluence of the South, militarism is the only card Kim Jong-II can play CHURCHILL once referred to Russia as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. That's also a pretty good description of the Peoples' Democratic Republic of Korea, aka the fiefdom of the ailing dictator, Kim Jong-il.
...Despite being sandwiched between China and Japan, the Koreans have maintained their independence (w...
QUESTION The great German philosopher Immanuel Kant was born in and spent his entire life in Konigsberg, yet this once-celebrated city no longer appears on the map. What became of it? KONIGSBERG was the capital of East Prussia and the most easterly German city, located on the Baltic coast on the Pregel River. It was one of the more attractive cities of the German empire. Kant was born there in 1724 and is thought never to have travelled more than a few miles beyond it in the course of his entire life. This isolated existence is particularly curious given his highly influential writings on international relations.
... for it as the centre of Prussian militarism for so long. He ordered that it be completely remo... include two from the Netherlands, two from Japan and four from the U.S. The decision on which bid t...
PRIME Minister Shinzo Abe expressed sympathy for victims of Japan's war-time aggression yesterday as the country commemorated the 62nd anniversary of its surrender in the Second World War. But rightists criticised Abe for failing to pay his respects at a war shrine in Tokyo that honours fallen soldiers.
... the shrine a monument to Japan's past militarism because it includes executed war criminals among t...
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