That’s the argument made by an editorial in the Japan Times and Jun Okumura at GlobalTalk 21. The Yomiuri, meanwhile, was cautiously optimistic, suggesting that while there were positive results from the Bush-Abe summit, the future is unclear, and there is a greater need for better bilateral communication (a point I’ve stressed on a number …
Frank Jannuzi, Hitachi fellow, China expert, and Democratic staffer at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (on leave), spoke tonight at Temple University Japan on the second Armitage-Nye Report. I’m not going to give a full summary of his talk — much of it was spelling out the thinking of the report’s drafters and explaining the …
So reports Jiji regarding the meeting between President Bush and Prime Minister Abe scheduled for the end of this month during Japan’s Golden Week holidays. This is not altogether surprising; despite Ambassador Schieffer’s voicing concerns about Abe’s response to the congressional comfort women resolution (mentioned in this post), I would be shocked if the issue …
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Tobias S. Harris 