U.S. Ambassador to Skip Peace Ceremony in Japan Over Israel’s Omission
Doves flying at an annual peace ceremony in Nagasaki, Japan, in 2022, on the anniversary of the American atomic bombing of the city. Credit...Kyodo, via Reuters The U.S. and British ambassadors to Japan said on Wednesday they would not attend Nagasaki’s annual peace memorial ceremony this week, which marks the day the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city, because Israel had not been in
Campus Protests Give Russia, China and Iran Fuel to Exploit U.S. Divide
A protester with a Palestinian flag on a Columbia University building on Monday. So far, there is little evidence that U.S. adversaries have provided material or organizational support to the protests.Credit...Amir Hamja/The New York Times An article on a fake online news outlet that Meta has linked to Russia’s information operations attributed the clashes unfolding on American college campuses to
Tokyo Journal; A Wizard of Animation Has Japan Under His Spell (Published 2002)
''Harree Pottah'' may be a smash box office hit in America but in Japan the current sensation is ''Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi,'' an animated fantasy about a sulky, pudgy-faced, 10-year-old girl trapped in a bathhouse with Japanese gods and spirits. Ultimately, the heroine rises from sulkiness to fend off dragons and sorceresses while trying to lift a curse on her parents, who were turned into p
Opinion | Is America on the Mend?
Almost four years have passed since Covid-19 struck. In America, the pandemic killed well over a million people and left millions more with lingering health problems. Much of normal life came to a halt, partly because of official lockdowns but largely because fear of infection kept people home. The big question in the years that followed was whether America would ever fully recover from that shock
They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost? (Published 2022)
The medical guidance was direct. Eleven-year-old Emma Basques had identified as a girl since toddlerhood. Now, as she worried about male puberty starting, a Phoenix pediatrician advised: Take a drug to stop it. At 13, Jacy Chavira felt increasingly uncomfortable with her maturing body and was beginning to believe she was a boy. Use the drug, her endocrinologist in Southern California recommended,
Opinion | In Defense of J.K. Rowling (Published 2023)
“Trans people need and deserve protection.” “I believe the majority of trans-identified people not only pose zero threat to others but are vulnerable.” “I respect every trans person’s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them.” “I feel nothing but empathy and solidarity with trans women who’ve been abused by men.” These statements were written by J.K. Rowling, the author o
A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean? (Published 2023)
His pronouncements could hardly sound more drastic. In interviews and public appearances, Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale, has taken on the question of how to deal with the burdens of Japan’s rapidly aging society. “I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” he said during one online news program in late 2021. “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of
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