TODAY'S EDITORIALS
Shot in the arm for nursing care
A program bringing Indonesian nurses to Japan has been branded discriminatory and falls short of offering the kind of conditions that would lure Japanese nursing professionals back.
Bumpy road to devolution
Prefectural governors do not appear to be enthusiastic about the new powers they are being offered.
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Victory for Turkish democracy
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Tough budget environment
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Mr. Fukuda begins anew
(Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008)
The death of Doha?
(Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008)
The responsibility to tax
(Friday, Aug. 1, 2008)
Paying up to be promoted
(Friday, Aug. 1, 2008)
All for one, one for all
(Thursday, July 31, 2008)
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LATEST OP-ED STORIES
Terrorism and the Games
By GWYNNE DYER
All the troops in China won't stop a determined Uighur — or even Tibetan — separatist from carrying out a small attack during the Olympics.
Say no to 'NPT' of climate change
By BRAHMA CHELLANEY
States that become wealthy early wish to preserve their prerogatives in a climate-change regime, despite their legacy of environmental damage.
Stop criticizing China, it has come so far
By LIJIA ZHANG
Maybe the Beijing Olypmics will rid Westerners of their fears borne of ignorance.
Triumph of the totalitarian will in Beijing
By NINA L. KHRUSHCHEVA
Like the Berlin Games of 1936, Beijing's Olympics — planned by the son of Hitler's architect — were conceived as a coming-out party for a totalitarian regime.
The challenge of Hiroshima
By HIDEKO TAMURA
I was a sixth grader waiting for my mother when the bomb dropped. On that day in Hiroshima, many of my relatives and classmates simply disappeared. And on that day of two suns, my mother did not come home.
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