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Updated Apr. 14, 2017 11:54AM EDT / Published Mar. 17, 2015 1:40PM EDT RANGOON, Burma — A bar manager from New Zealand and his two colleagues have been jailed in Burma for two and a half years with hard labor because they used a psychedelic image of Buddha wearing headphones for a drinks promotion. The men were arrested under a draconian religious law after extremist monks voiced outrage against t
Updated Apr. 14, 2017 12:06PM EDT / Published Feb. 16, 2015 4:45PM EST TOKYO — On February 11, a well-known author and former education advisor to Japan’s prime minister published a column in one of Japan’s largest newspapers praising the racial segregation in South Africa—apartheid—as a model for Japanese immigration policy. In the last few days, the column by Ayako Sono, 83, has become a source
TOKYO — One of this country’s largest newspapers took the occasion of the Founding of Japan holiday earlier this week to publish a column by a noted author who advocates apartheid. Japan should solve the problem of a dwindling population by bringing in foreign workers, she wrote, but it should make sure that they live segregated from the natives. The author of the column, Ms. Ayako Sono, is a well
Updated Apr. 14, 2017 12:26PM EDT / Published Jan. 28, 2015 11:57AM EST ROME — Blatant anti-Islamic racism was bound to happen sooner or later as fear continues to spread across Europe after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris. And there is nothing subtle about a new measure being considered in Italy’s often-xenophobic northern regions. This week, the northern Italian region of Lombardy passed a pr
Face It, Obama. Without Assad, You’ve Got No Strategy in Syria If the administration does not come up with a clear plan to defeat the jihadis and end the Syrian war, Congress should not sign on to it. In his State of the Union speech, President Obama pressed Congress to grant him war powers to combat the Islamic terrorists in Syria and Iraq. Congress should not oblige him—until he presents a convi
Updated Apr. 14, 2017 12:25PM EDT / Published Jan. 23, 2015 5:55AM EST TOKYO—ISIS says it will kill two Japanese hostages if the Japanese government fails to pay a $200 million ransom by 12:50 a.m. ET Friday. But The Daily Beast has learned that the current crisis might have been averted last year if the Japanese government had not interfered in negotiations to save the first hostage captured by t
Updated Apr. 14, 2017 2:37PM EDT / Published Oct. 10, 2014 12:51PM EDT After Pakistani Malala Yousufzai and Indian child advocate Kailash Satyarthi jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, official reaction in Pakistan was overwhelmingly positive. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called her the “Pride of Pakistan” and said girls and boys should “take the lead from her struggle and commitment.” The
Updated Apr. 14, 2017 2:52PM EDT / Published Sep. 26, 2014 12:00AM EDT TOKYO, Japan — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be speaking to the United Nations this Friday, but he may not be very welcome. In late July, the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination urged Japan to crack down on the growing cases of “hate speech” targeting foreign residents. The U.N. committee urge
Updated Apr. 14, 2017 3:07PM EDT / Published Aug. 11, 2014 2:10PM EDT No, Obama has not proposed toppling Iraq’s government by force like his predecessor once did. But the president has instructed his diplomats in Washington and Baghdad to find an alternative to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Since June those diplomats have quietly supported a member of Maliki’s own political party to be th
Updated Jul. 12, 2017 4:36PM EDT / Published Jun. 03, 2014 6:02AM EDT TOKYO, Japan – On Wednesday, Japan’s House of Representatives is expected to pass legislation making the possession of child pornography illegal, according to senior members of the ruling party. It’s taken them a while. Japan is the only major developed country in the world that hasn’t put a universal ban on child porn. The crea
Updated Jul. 12, 2017 12:57PM EDT / Published Feb. 28, 2014 2:23PM EST Private security contractors working for the Russian military are the unmarked troops who have now seized control over two airports in the Ukrainian province of Crimea, according to informed sources in the region. And those contractors could be setting the stage for ousted President Viktor Yanukovich to come to the breakaway re
Updated Jul. 12, 2017 12:55PM EDT / Published Feb. 27, 2014 9:39PM EST Bitcoin, the virtual currency that has been racing toward acceptance as a genuine currency, had a colossal setback this past Tuesday, when a major Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, based in Tokyo, went off-line. Thousands of customers are unable to withdraw deposits and CEO Mark Karpeles is not talking to the press about what happened
Updated Jul. 12, 2017 12:34PM EDT / Published Feb. 07, 2014 1:50PM EST In September of 2012, the U.S. Department of Treasury imposed sanctions on Japan’s second largest yakuza crime syndicate, the Sumiyoshi-kai and its leaders including Chairman Hareaki Fukuda. The sanctions make it possible to freeze their U.S. assets and block their transactions with American entities. They also forbid any US ci
Japan’s Miss International Takes on Mob-Backed Entertainment Complex When Ikumi Yoshimatsu refused to work for any mafia-connected talent agency, she found out standing up for the right thing is a sure way to get knocked off your throne. The 53rd Miss International was crowned Tuesday in Tokyo, but her predecessor, the first Japanese woman to win the title in 52 years, Ikumi Yoshimatsu, was not th
Thatcher is remembered as The Iron Lady only because she possessed completely negative traits such as persistent stubbornness and a determined refusal to listen to others. Every move she made was charged by negativity; she destroyed the British manufacturing industry, she hated the miners, she hated the arts, she hated the Irish Freedom Fighters and allowed them to die, she hated the English poor
Updated Apr. 21, 2017 10:48AM EDT / Published Apr. 08, 2013 11:54AM EDT In his 1988 song “Margaret on the Guillotine,” Morrissey wondered when British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, then in her final stretch as party leader, would make his “dream real” and...well...die. Twenty-five years later, one can presume that the former Smiths frontman is experiencing a rare moment of good cheer. Because
This quote, delivered by Gandalf the Grey in Peter Jackson’s interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic children’s book, The Hobbit, acts as a warning to its viewers: This is not your grandpa’s Hobbit. Along with shooting the film in revolutionary 48 frames per second (presented in 3D), the adaptation was radical in its content, hand-picking what would be included from the book, and turning senten
Moments after Harvey Weinstein violently raped Annabella Sciorra inside her Manhattan apartment, he boasted, “I have perfect timing,” the Emmy-nominated actress testified Thursday at the movie mogul’s sex-crimes trial. Sciorra, best known for her role in The Sopranos, told jurors in Manhattan Supreme Court that in 1993 or 1994 Weinstein showed up at her door and forced himself inside her 17th-floo
Updated Jul. 14, 2017 1:27AM EDT / Published Oct. 18, 2012 6:45AM EDT We are announcing this morning an important development at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Newsweek will transition to an all-digital format in early 2013. As part of this transition, the last print edition in the United States will be our Dec. 31 issue. Meanwhile, Newsweek will expand its rapidly growing tablet and online presenc
We are a nation on downers, with a president on uppers and a Secretary of State that is, as the kids would say, tripping. Secretary of State and 56-year-old adult man Mike Pompeo threw a full-fledged tantrum Friday when NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly dared ask him tough questions about his role in the Ukraine scandal that led to President Trump’s impeachment. Pompeo was emotionally reactive throughout th
Updated Jul. 13, 2017 9:48PM EDT / Published Jul. 30, 2012 3:00PM EDT Dear Governor Romney: Today, in Jerusalem, you compared the Israeli economy to Palestine’s and suggested, by implication, that Palestinians lacked everything from a progressive culture to “the hand of Providence.” You and I were management consultants in Boston. Here are some facts: The Palestinian Authority gets about $2 billio
“It Takes a Lot to Rattle Me” How Hope Solo survived it all—and put U.S. women's soccer in position to bring home gold again. By Andrew Romano Photograph by Jeff Riedel for Newsweek; Hair and Makeup: Vickie Granado for MC2 What To Do About Sarah? Mitt Romney hasn’t invited Palin to the GOP convention, and the Tea Party is livid. By Peter J. Boyer Photo illustration by Gluekit; Source: Scott Olson
I’m staring at a computer screen, watching the tweets about Kobe Bryant in a state of abject shock and horror. Even as the reports are confirmed, I keep clinging to some vague hope that the life of one of the greatest players in NBA history didn’t end early Sunday morning. But it’s there, confronting me and basketball fans all over the world like some kind of horrible sucking nullity. Bryant’s Sik
Updated Jul. 13, 2017 5:29PM EDT / Published May 05, 2012 9:45AM EDT In my column for the National Post, I explain why Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, wants to have Israel's elections in September: Israeli governments often have collapsed before their term ended. Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is doing something almost unheard of in Israel: voluntarily scheduling an election much ear
Updated Jul. 13, 2017 3:17PM EDT / Published Apr. 30, 2012 12:00PM EDT ''I don't believe in a leadership that makes decisions based on messianic feelings,'' Yuval Diskin, the former head of the Israeli Secret Service said this past week. The gathering was to celebrate Israeli’s Independence Day in the Tel Aviv suburb of Kfar Saba. He was speaking in code. One cannot use the word “messianic” in Isr
Updated Jul. 13, 2017 3:21PM EDT / Published May 01, 2012 12:30PM EDT Honesty is difficult, perhaps distasteful, in talking of man just now dead. Honesty nonetheless requires saying that Benzion Netanyahu would be briefly eulogized as a historian, and more briefly recalled as a footnote to forgotten Zionist rivalries, were it not for his other legacy: the son whose politics, view of history, and r
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