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Archives: Japan
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![On 71st Anniversary of Hiroshima, the Fear of a Nuclear Trump](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003332im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/08/on-71st-anniversary-of-hiroshima-187x137.jpg)
On 71st Anniversary of Hiroshima, the Fear of a Nuclear Trump
TeleSur | - - Donald Trump also recently asked a national security expert three times why, since the US has nuclear weapons, it can’t use them. Japan marked the 71st anniversary of…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003332im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/Atomic_bombing_of_Japan-750x445-187x137.jpg)
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the single greatest acts of terrorism in human history?
by Akil Awan | (The New Statesman) - - Surely 70 years is long enough for us to put to rest the tired canard of the atomic bombings on Japan being "the…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003332im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/hiltzik-187x137.jpg)
How Dropping the A-Bomb on Japan initiated the Military-Industrial Complex
By Michael Hiltzik | (Author, Big Science) | - - This summer -- August 6 and 9, to be precise -- marks the 70th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003332im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/photo-1-750x422-187x137.png)
The Yasukuni Shuffle: China and Japan duke it out via T.V. Serials on the Wrongs of WW II
By Philip J Cunningham Everyday hundreds, if not thousands of Chinese and Japanese kill one another on Chinese television. Hundreds of Anti-Japan war dramas were churned out last year and the genre…![Is Obama right that America’s Future is in Asia, not the Middle East?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003332im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2014/04/is-obama-right-that-americas-fut-187x137.jpg)
Is Obama right that America’s Future is in Asia, not the Middle East?
(by Juan Cole) Barack Obama, brought up in Hawaii and having lived as a child in Indonesia, is the first Pacific president, and his current trip to Asia, beginning in Japan, is…![US Pivot to Asia Should Deploy Soft Power, not the Marines](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003332im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2014/01/us-pivot-to-asia-should-deploy-s-187x137.jpg)
US Pivot to Asia Should Deploy Soft Power, not the Marines
(By John Feffer) In a future update of The Devil's Dictionary, the famed Ambrose Bierce dissection of the linguistic hypocrisies of modern life, a single word will accompany the entry for "Pacific…![Dr. Makhijani speaking on PBS Newshour this week. (Sreenshot)](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003332im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/fukushimas-strontium-neverending-187x137.jpg)
Fukushima’s Strontium Leaks a Neverending Crisis? (Germanos)
Andrea Germanos writes at Commondreams courtesy VOAnews As the disaster at Fukushima plant continues to unfold, one nuclear expert is warning that "this is an accident that’s shockingly not stopping."Arjun Makhijani, President…![merevegy](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003332im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2013/07/merevegy1.jpg)
Middle East Regional Contention over Egypt’s New Government
The change of government in Egypt produced starkly different reactions in various Middle Eastern countries, which tells us something about the situation there. With the exception of maverick member Qatar, the Gulf…![Japan’s Feed-in Tariff Kicks off Explosive Renewables Growth (Video Report)](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003332im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2013/11/japans-explosive-renewables.html-187x137.jpg)