Showing posts with label Abductees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abductees. Show all posts
Thursday, August 06, 2009

Let’s Hope No One Draws Parallels between the Abductees and the Two American Journalists…

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Joe’s comment here gives me good chance to unleash yet again a couple of my pet peeves—regarding the abductees and Prime Minister Koizumi. ...
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Some Implications of South Korea’s Help on Japan’s Abduction Issue

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I’ll have to issue a corrective regarding my previous post on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit regarding a possible meeting with ...

A Few Thoughts on Hillary Clinton’s Upcoming Visit

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I thought that the AP wire that I linked to in this previous post implicitly said everything that absolutely needed to be said about Secre...
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Sunday, October 12, 2008

North Korea Delisted; Life Goes on

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Last January, I made the following speculation on what it would take to move beyond phase two: It is barely conceivable that the lame-duck ...
Friday, August 15, 2008

New Deal on Abduction Issue: The Japanese Version and Other Things

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This is the summer holiday season, when the regular Tuesday Cabinet sessions and the subsequent press briefings customarily held by attendin...
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Saturday, July 05, 2008

Danzig-Nye Essay on “Obama’s Thinking”

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Richard Danzig and Joseph Nye, two foreign policy establishment figures who have signed on to the Obama campaign, have co-produced an Asahi ...
Saturday, June 14, 2008

The Fix Is in on Delisting North Korea as State Sponsor of Terrorism

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Yesterday, the Chief Cabinet Secretary made the announcement, later confirmed by the Foreign Minister , that the North Korean authorities ha...
Wednesday, October 31, 2007

The Japanese Government Needs Better Public Communications on the Need for Movement on the Remaining Abductees

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Once every five years, the Japanese government conducts a public opinion poll on the protection of human rights, and one of the things it tr...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

If Anyone Can Prolong the Honeymoon with the Media, It's Prime Minister Fukuda

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I did not make it up when I wrote that "[Mr. Fukuda] had charmed the entire Kantei press into longing for his triumphant return."...
Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Full Text of Joint Document of the Second Session of the Sixth Round Six-Party Talks

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Here .
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

070925What the State Department Thinks of North Korea as a Sponsor of Terrorism

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Ever wondered what the bureaucrat-vetted version of U.S. policy concerning North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism looked like? I though...
Sunday, September 16, 2007

The Candidates Talk the Talk Differently; Will They Walk the Walk Differently Too?

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The two candidates are seen as ideological opposites, but their differences seem more style than substance, if their appearance on today...
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Where Did the Abductees Issue Become Part of the Response to the WMDs?

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The Japanese Government issues an annual report titled: Report on the Government's Undertaking Concerning the Tackling of the Abductees...
Friday, April 27, 2007

North Korea: The Abduction Saga Continues with an Arrest Warrant. So Who Wants to Know?

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Unless you are nuts about Japan (which you must be, if you're reading this blog, c'mon), you have missed the biggest long-running JM...