Nancy Pelosi seems to be trying to outdo George Bush.
On a visit to Israel, she said that if countries want to be friends with the US, they must treat Iran as a pariah nation, and totally support America’s aggressive policy towards Iran.
This has rankled Japan, a longtime American friend. America forced Japan to give up […]

Well Japan is back among the coalition of the willing. Our nearly final effort in the GWOT was to provide an oil tanker with a destroyer escort. The tanker was refueling coalition Naval vessels, primarily those of Pakistan.
The ruling LDP has seemed obsessed with passing this law, to exclusion of all else. […]

For those of you who are getting tired of ridiculous comments and verbal attacks by American politicians. In Japan, we are getting swamped with our politicians worrying about UFO’s. The link provided does not fully give the comments by Defense Minister Ishiba, but he said that in the movies the Japanese Self Defense […]

Best of the Blogs started with an email list called the Ancient Thespians, for men who “would rather burn out than rust.” I am cheered by the Japan Times front page today, where, top front and center, between a snarky “China hit for alternating joint communique” (to eliminate some caveats that appear in the Japanese […]

Barack Hussein Obama says we shouldn’t return to the “divisive” rhetoric… well, I don’t know where the likes of him and Shrum and Frum and the rest of them bobbleheads have been cuz we never left the Plains of Divisiveness.  Remember when Lyndon Johnson was around…  Labor Day used to mean something.  Welcome to post […]

Uninspected since Walter Mondale was Dem veep.  That’s where.  Bipartisanship at its best.  Could this be the reason that Kobe beef costs so much more than Nolan Ryan’s “beefmaster” rib eyes??? 

Both The Japan Times and The Asahi Shimbun headline the same story this morning. The Tokyo High Court has, as The Japan Times puts it,
expanded on a lower court ruling and ordered NHK and two production companies to pay damages to a women’s rights group for altering the content of a documentary on a mock […]

The Japan Times leads with the story that made headlines in yesterday’s Japanese papers, Cops raid Paloma over gas leak death. Other stories peaking above the fold are Canada’s apology to Syrian-born Canadian Maher Arar, whom U.S. authorities deported to Damascus where he was imprisoned and tortured for over a year; the U.S. banning luxury […]