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Will Obama Help Change Asia's Racism?

David A. Love | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

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David A. Love

President Obama's visit to Asia showed how long a journey it's been since the 1955 Bandung Conference, the historic meeting of African and Asian states striving for self-determination.

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Hatoyama's U.S. Policy May Backfire

Devin Stewart | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, Obama Japan, China, Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, North Korea, World News
Devin Stewart

If Japan truly wants to serve as a "bridge" between the United States and Asia or the West and East, it will need good relations with both sides.

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Hand-Holding Hatoyamas: Japan's First Couple Partakes In PDA (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 11.05.2009 | Style

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We have to say, Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his wife Miyuki seem crazy about each other. The recently elected prime minister has called ...

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Will Japan Go Nuclear?

Joe Cirincione | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Hu Jintao, Yukio Hatoyama, Barack Obama, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Deterrence, Nuclear Posture Review, Start Treaty, United States, Japan, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Nuclear-Free World, World News
Joe Cirincione

A small group of conservative Japanese defense officials have spread the view that if the United States reduces its nuclear arsenal, then Japan will build its own nuclear bombs.

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Japan's First Couple Does Jazz Hands At Fashion Show (VIDEO, POLL)

Huffington Post | Posted 10.09.2009 | Style

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Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his wife Miyuki sashayed down the runway at a charity fashion show in Tokyo earlier this week. Miyuki modele...

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EU's Barroso to G-20: Financial Markets Must Not Return to "Bad Old Ways"

Nathan Gardels | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

Read More: European Commission, Yukio Hatoyama, Jose Manuel Barroso, World News
Nathan Gardels

Barroso believes that, after the crash caused by the excesses of unregulated financial markets, globalization requires global governance. Here is what he had to say in advance of the G-20 meeting.

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Japan's New Government Faces Dire Economic Challenge

Sheldon Filger | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

Read More: Japanese Economy, Democratic Party of Japan, Hirohisa Fuji, Yukio Hatoyama, World News
Sheldon Filger

With Japan's export machine badly hurt due to the global contraction in trade, the agenda of the new power elite in Tokyo risks a double-dip recession.

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Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama Takes Office, Names Cabinet In Japan

AP | MALCOLM FOSTER | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

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TOKYO — Japan's parliament named Yukio Hatoyama prime minister Wednesday, as his party took power for the first time ever with promises to reviv...

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New Strategy For Afghanistan, Good News Out Of Pakistan, Japan's Elections, Hondurus Crisis, And Columbia's Undemocratic Referendum

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Yemen, Honduras, Colombia, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Japan, Pakistan, Yukio Hatoyama, Mugabe, Abc, President Alvaro, World News
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

These Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: A New Strategy for Afghanistan and A Rare Bit of Good News Out of Pakistan SI Analysis: The US ...

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Lost in Syndication: The Case of the Hatoyama Essay

Nathan Gardels | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

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Nathan Gardels

An essay published by Yukio Hatoyama, the soon-to-be prime minister of Japan, has caused a big stir abroad, which in turn caused a bigger stir back in Japan.

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Japan Breaks Out of U.S. Orbit

Diane Francis | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Gdp, Japanese Elections, Obama, U.S., Japanese Economy, Asia, Japan, China, Yukio Hatoyama, Djp, Liberal Democratic Party, World News
Diane Francis

The transfer of power in Japan marks a desire on the part of many Japanese voters to move toward Asia and out from under the West's sphere of influence.

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Japan's New Leader Reassures U.S. On Alliance

nytimes.com | MARTIN FACKLER | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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TOKYO -- Scrambling to mend fences with his country's biggest ally, Japan's next leader, Yukio Hatoyama, told the United States ambassador on Thursday...

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Dealing with the New Japan: Washington Won't Take "No" for an Answer

Doug Bandow | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

Read More: Mutual Defense Treaty, Liberal Democratic Party, Yukio Hatoyama, Democratic Party of Japan, Military Spending, Obama Administration, U.S.-Japan Alliance, Japan, World News
Doug Bandow

Only slightly less unhappy than the LDP dinosaurs who misruled Japan for so long are U.S. policymakers, who have grown used to Tokyo playing the role of pliant ally, backing American priorities and hosting its bases.

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Miyuki Hatoyama, Japan's New First Lady: I Rode A UFO To Venus (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post via Reuters | Posted 10.18.2009 | Style

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Over the weekend, Japan elected a new prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, and welcomed a new first lady, his wife, Miyuki. The Hatoyamas should make for a...

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Liberal Democratic Party's Half-Century Rule In Japan At Brink Of Ending

washingtonpost.com | Blaine Harden | Posted 09.27.2009 | World

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TOKYO -- Japanese voters are on the brink of doing something they have not been willing to do in more than half a century: throw the bums out. The opp...

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