How to avoid a war between the U.S. and China
To avoid a war, the U.S. and China must activate top-level diplomacy, build strong crisis-management mechanisms and enrich the rules of engagement in the South China Sea.
Is 'proactive peace' just a new term for war?
"Have you ever heard the roar of a jet fighter?" Kiyokatsu Kikuchi has. "No words can describe it. When they're flying directly over my house it feels like my head's being split open." For 40 years this has been going on. Kikuchi, 67, lives near the ...
Is the world getting more peaceful? Maybe not
While some academics believe the world is getting more peaceful, new research suggests they might be getting their math wrong.
It's all fun and games until war breaks out
Not far from where I live is a kind of amusement park where you can play soldier. It has a lot of chain-link fences and gray structures that look like bombed-out buildings. On weekends, men, and sometimes women, dressed in camouflage and armed with ...
McCain: SDF should expect to see action in Korea, deploy to Mideast, South China Sea
Sen. John McCain, chairman of the U.S. Armed Services Committee, expresses hope that the Self-Defense Forces will be operating in the Middle East and the South China Sea under Japan’s new security policy.
Philippine prison chief's humane treatment of Japanese POWs a lesson in forgiveness: son
"You must stop the cycle of violence, the cycle of hatred." That is the reply Alfredo Bunye offered his son, Ignacio, some 60 years ago, when Bunye was a Philippine prison officer. Ignacio, 70, who was the presidential spokesman during the administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, was ...
Three Cabinet ministers visit Yasukuni Shrine after Abe meets Xi
The visits by Eriko Yamatani, Haruko Arimura and Sanae Takaichi were likely to infuriate nations that view the shrine as a symbol of Japan's past militarism.
Yemenis forced to take to sea from Aden as civil war rages through ancient port
The rocket that tore through a minivan outside the Aden Grand Hotel last week killing nine men, women and children was a clear message that it was time to leave. Yemen's civil war had come too close for comfort. As Shiite Muslim fighters closed in ...
Battle of Iwojima forgotten, except toll
When Yoshitaka Shindo was a boy, he did not hear much from his family about his grandfather, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, commander of the Japanese troops who fought and died in the bloody Battle of Iwojima. The battle, in which nearly 7,000 U.S. Marines and Navy sailors ...
China's planned military parade to mark the end of World War II is likely to be held at the site Japan attacked in 1937 to trigger the Second Sino-Japanese War, according to two officials with direct knowledge of the plan. The September parade to commemorate ...
Filipino historian notes importance of WWII's Battle of Manila
The fierce monthlong Battle of Manila fought 70 years ago should not only be remembered for the destruction and loss of lives, but also for its strategic importance in the entire Pacific War, according to a Filipino historian. Ricardo Jose, a history professor at the ...
Americans must tell Washington no more war
No matter how disastrous the outcome, the American war lobby of fools lives on, insisting that the idea to go to war was sound and that any problems resulted from engaging too few troops, not doing enough bombing, ending an occupation too soon or ...
