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Japan's Iran Sanctions Represent Selective Justice

Saturday, September 4, 2010

By Ahmad Rashid Malik

In an announcement in Tokyo on September 3, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku said that Tokyo would impose new sanctions on Iran for alleged illicit nuclear activities.

The notion that Iran is illegally developing nuclear weapons is a view largely propagated by the United States, but not endorsed by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The announcement came as a surprise to many, as they did not expect such an announcement from Japan at this time. The fres...

The Iraq War's Damage to US-Japan Relations

Thursday, September 2, 2010

By Peter Ennis

The official end of US combat operations in Iraq has prompted a surge in commentaries on the impact of the war, none more important than Anne Applebaum's in the Washington Post on August 30. (Leave aside for a moment that 50,000 US troops remain on the ground in Iraq, in arguably a more dangerous position than before.)

Applebaum tries to assess the impact that seven years of war in Iraq has had on American society, and American foreign policy. The price, she rightly says, ha...

Editorial: The Case for Ozawa

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Although Japan possesses media organizations generally considered to be both liberal as well as conservative, the sad truth is that all of these major news organizations tend to speak with a single voice on a variety of important public issues.

This is not because only one view is defensible, but rather because these media organizations share the same interests, and utilize the same sources of information.

One of our advantages at PanOrient News is that we are truly independent, and so we ...

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