Joseph S. Nye is the University Distinguished Service Professor and former Dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is the author of "The Future of Power." November 21, 2011 There are three good reasons for President Obama’s decision to rotate regularly 2,500 Marines through an Australian base. Obama is right to 'pivot' American foreign policy toward East Asia. It sends the right me
The offices of Ennet, a new power company trying with difficulty to compete with the giant Tepco.Credit...Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times TOKYO — In a direct act of rebellion against Tokyo Electric Power Company, which owns the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the local government in Tokyo is moving swiftly to build a huge natural gas facility that would generate as much electricity as a nucl
An advertisement for Olympus in Tokyo. Japanese officials said at least $4.9 billion in Olympus funds were missing.Credit...Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg News Editors’ Note, Aug. 3, 2021: This article, relying on statements made in a police memo, includes errors. It refers incorrectly to payments being probed by Japanese police. While some of the payments identified in the police memo were made by Nob
transcript ‘They Came in the Dark’: Settler Violence Intensifies in the West BankSince the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, extremist settlers in the West Bank have been emboldened, displacing more than 1,000 Palestinians, according to the United Nations. “Since 7th of October, the soldier came and sit down under this tree. And they put the Israeli flag here. And right now, if we try to cross 10 meters,
An oil terminal in Misurata, Libya, in May, after an attack by Qaddafi forces. Rebuilding will be a major task in Libya for years.Credit...Bryan Denton for The New York Times WASHINGTON — The guns in Libya have barely quieted, and NATO’s military assistance to the rebellion that toppled Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi will not end officially until Monday. But a new invasion force is already plotting its o
Libyans celebrated Sunday in Benghazi, where Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, the chairman of the Transitional National Council, spoke.Credit...Joao Pina for The New York Times BENGHAZI, Libya — The leader of the transitional government declared to thousands of revelers in a sunlit square here on Sunday that Libya’s revolution had ended, setting the country on the path to elections, and he vowed that the new
TO THE STREET Many downtown workers encountered demonstrators last week at Zuccotti Park, some with a group called Occupy Wall Street.Credit...Michael Kirby Smith for The New York Times By late morning on Wednesday, Occupy Wall Street, a noble but fractured and airy movement of rightly frustrated young people, had a default ambassador in a half-naked woman who called herself Zuni Tikka. A blonde w
Afghan policeman stood over the body of an insurgent at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Wednesday.Credit...Kuni Takahashi for The New York Times KABUL, Afghanistan — Raising the death toll sharply, American and Afghan officials said Wednesday that the complexity and execution of the siege of the American Embassy and NATO’s headquarters in Kabul bore the hallmarks of a militant group based in Pakistan
U.S. Sees Array of New Threats at Japan’s Nuclear Plant United States government engineers sent to help with the crisis in Japan are warning that the troubled nuclear plant there is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely, and that in some cases are expected to increase as a result of the very measures being taken to keep the plant stable, according to a confidential a
TOKYO — The president of a nuclear plant operator said on Thursday that he may resign as a result of a scandal over faked e-mails that has added a bizarre new twist to a decision whether to allow Japan’s idled reactors to restart in the wake of the Fukushima disaster. The president of Kyushu Electric Power, Toshio Manabe, told reporters that he must take responsibility for the e-mails, which were
In Japan Reactor Failings, Danger Signs for the U.S. TOKYO — Emergency vents that American officials have said would prevent devastating hydrogen explosions at nuclear plants in the United States were put to the test in Japan — and failed to work, according to experts and officials with the company that operates the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant. The failure of the vents calls into question the
Masataka Shimizu, center, president of Tokyo Electric Power, and company officials knelt to ask forgiveness of residents in a shelter in Koriyama.Credit...Kyodo/Reuters TOKYO — Given the fierce insularity of Japan’s nuclear industry, it was perhaps fitting that an outsider exposed the most serious safety cover-up in the history of Japanese nuclear power. It took place at Fukushima Daiichi, the pla
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