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Issues | LIGHT GIST Dec 25, 2012

The year in quotes: 25 windows on the way things were in 2012

by David Mcneill

It was a year dominated by Japan's spats with its most powerful neighbors, China and South Korea, over tiny specks in the sea, and by national soul-searching over nuclear power and the calamity that struck Japan in March 2011. It ended with the stunning ...

Issues | LIGHT GIST Nov 27, 2012

I have a dream: a 'young first' Japan that works for all

by Glenn Newman

It is a political season. Barack Obama was recently re-elected president of the United States, China has anointed Xi Jinping as its new leader, and Japanese politicians are jockeying for position in advance of a general election to be held on Dec. 16. In ...