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…that became lucrative hits in her native Japan. In a double-meta passage, Currie has Agatha Christie tell the story of his biggest professional setback through her detective Hercule Poirot. Frustrated…

…The shortage was caused by crop failures and the Japanese invasion of Burma and nearby countries that had previously supplied rice to India. Herman concludes that without Churchill the Bengal…

…any warmth for the Japanese people, but rather to avoid a repeat of the twentieth century’s deadly struggle for mastery of the Western Pacific between Russia, China, and Japan. But…

…To begin with, there is the geographic importance of Taiwan. Taiwan is part of the so-called “first island chain,” stretching from Japan through Okinawa and Taiwan to the Philippines and…

While President Obama hugged the survivors of Hiroshima on the quiet but assumed apology for President Truman’s decision to end the fighting against Japan by destroying two cities, other victims…

…hating the Japanese, and the Chinese hating the Japanese (and that’s just East Asia!)—tends to be subdued in our American melting pot. In America I see a place where people…

…like Japanese couples stolen off beaches during dates or a young Japanese teenager taken off the street on her way home from school, defy explanation. Over the last several weeks,…

…happens next? …Perpetual military occupation of 24 million resistant Chinese speakers … China’s other neighbors all turn enemy. Japan and South Korea pushed to become nuclear weapons states … and…

…cut us off from the region, it would also seriously impede the United States from providing security assurances to allies like Japan and the Philippines. If Japan loses confidence in…

…pioneering set of school choices in the first place. … Internment was just a lovely way of providing more housing options to people. Before, U.S. citizens and noncitizens of Japanese…

U.S. President Trump and Chinese President Xi held their highly anticipated summit at the Group of 20 meeting in Osaka, Japan on Saturday. Was it a successful meeting? That depends…

…increasingly recognized as a fundamental obstacle to settling the solar system. For example, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Japan, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have all been recently reviewing their…

…over the East China Sea. The East China Sea, which stretches between China and Japan and is claimed by both, has gotten less coverage because China has not built the…

…RV4 (Japanese); from your LG smart phone (South Korean), you learned that a Japanese immigrant to Britain won the Nobel Prize for Literature from Sweden; you and your coworkers had…

…save the American economy from its current fiscal crisis. Similarly back in 1986, when President Reagan was using his populist skills to force Japan to reduce protectionist barriers, a group…

…“North East South West” — Japandroids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1cRSpSk5D4 “North East South West” gives you the usual Japandroids features. There’s the Canadian apologetics. The brief tempo shifts. The over-enunciated vocals. But there…

…100 highest murder rates. I added to the sample countries that compare to the United States culturally such as European countries, Australia, Japan, etc. I deleted countries for which I…

…stone that Japan will never go nuclear? Or maybe even South Korea or Taiwan? And would you like missiles pointed at you? Should Japan send a missiles over North Korea…

…It happened in China, Japan and South Korea in the latter half of the 20th century….” So the WSJ article begins. India’s sin is not to have followed this same…

For the first time in history, the leaders of the Quad—the informal alliance of India, Japan, Australia, and the United States—met in a virtual conference, agreeing to jointly form supply…

…trying to, you know, work propaganda against the Japanese, stir up problems between the Japanese-Americans in that alliance, which seems to me to be pretty clearly the kind of thing…

…is on what appears to me to be trying to, you know, work propaganda against the Japanese, stir up problems between the Japanese and Americans in that alliance, which seems…

…Japanese could not stop them, then the Battle of Midway itself, which won America the war in the Pacific. That this story has never been adequately told on film is…

Starting this October, Japan Airlines will no longer address passengers as “ladies and gentlemen.” A company press release announced “gender-based honorific titles … will be abolished,” replaced with gender-neutral greetings…

…flies them over U.S. ally, Japan, and toward Guam. Testing is also necessary to prove the reliability of those missiles. Two, we have diplomatic channels open, including at the very…

…Portuguese and Japanese knew, when one controls Taiwan, one controls the sea lanes to Japan and the Philippines. A free Taiwan, on the other hand, bars the way from China’s…

…“to avoid controversy and guarantee a China release.” After Paramount released an early trailer of “Top Gun: Maverick” in summer 2019, people quickly pointed out that the image of Japanese and Taiwanese…

…If Iran was indeed behind the attack, it was a brazen act—one of the tankers hit was Japanese-owned, just as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was visiting Iran to attempt…

…grows rich, and the strains on China’s nascent pension programs will be enormous. The parallels between China’s current demographic and economic malaise and Japan’s demographic and economic decline are striking….

…in response to the trailer — “Every trailer gets worse, but seeing it in Japanese makes it perfect: like a cheap Japanese knock-off using second-tier U.S. actors and violating all…

…Houston and told the judge I was goin’ to Japan for the first exhibition, had about 500,000 dollars to pick up, the end of it me makin’ money. I didn’t…

…Page Act included a provision to prohibit contracted labor from “China, Japan, or any Oriental country” that was not “free and voluntary.” A few years after the Page Act, the…

…would go back to the family to help keep the house warm and food on the table. With the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United…

…after every game in the iconic 1996 series with grandmaster Garry Kasparov. Robots that make the news, such as the acrobatic “parkour bot” shown off by Boston Dynamics, are always…

It’s been a big month for sci-fi primates. On Apr. 8, Elon Musk’s start-up Neuralink announced they created a cyborg monkey who can play MindPong using a brain chip. The…

…Superman, the strongest Superhero on the planet, is coming out.” Taylor further explained what a new Superman should fight for: “Can a seventeen-year-old Superman battle giant robots while ignoring the…