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...feel that Japan is in general, cool, almost like ice.' TO CHU JI, North Korean defector who fled the Stalinist nation for Japan four years ago, after deciding that Japanese "don't care about each other" and returning on June 21 to North Korea...
...Compliance brings immediate benefits to Kim's government. In return for shutting down Yongbyon, which diplomats hope will occur as early as next month, the North will receive 50,000 tons of fuel oil from the U.S. and the other participants in the six-party talks: South Korea, China, Japan and Russia...
...population and soaring competition from neighboring countries. Our government tends to envision more prosaic reforms. We need to beef up cultural power to make our cities more attractive to younger generations and foreigners. Our overemphasis on cost-benefit evaluations has precluded investment in cultural matters. Hiroaki Goda, Fukuoka City, Japan...
...party is the revolutionary vanguard of class struggle. Suzuki, you see, is a teenage Japanese communist. Bolshevism runs in her family. The daughter and granddaughter of party members, she joined the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) as soon as she turned 18. "The purpose of the JCP is to change Japan," says Suzuki. "If the party becomes bigger, then Japan will be changed into a place where my dreams are realized...
...That principled stance earned the respect of many Japanese after the war ended, and JCP members were allowed to run for office. Though the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) would come to control Japanese politics, the JCP provided a reliable leftist opposition bloc with the larger and more mainstream Japan Socialist Party...