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...Historically, Japan is a country of design," says fashion innovator Issey Miyake, who plans to open 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Japan's first museum dedicated to the subject, on March 30 in Tokyo's megacomplex, Tokyo Midtown, in Roppongi. "Everything is design, from the things people take pleasure in, from gardens, scrolls, paintings and Kabuki, to the things people use." With a name that gestures to a realm of design beyond the limits of 20/20 vision, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT is a Tadao Ando--designed building that was conceived as a forum where people could think about design. Together with...
Helicopters, it turns out, do not fly upside down. I know this by hard, albeit simulated, experience. I was on the stick of an 21-ton MH-53 helicopter, one of the largest crafts of its type in the world, at the Iwakuni Air Base in western Japan. My co-pilot and instructor - an officer in the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) - guided me as I lifted the copter off the ground and pointed it toward the virtual Akinada Sea. A little spin over the water, no problem, and then my instructor asked me to turn around for home...
...been flying a real helicopter, I'd be dead and the government of Japan would be out $50 million, the cost of one these flying monsters (it has 10). They wouldn't miss me - and they might not miss the $50 million either. Though its constitution officially prohibits war and its army and navy are innocuously called "self-defense forces (SDF)," Japan is a stealth military power, with an annual budget of around $42 billion - the sixth largest in the world. Despite all that money, Japan's armed forces have traditionally kept a very low profile, at home and abroad...
...distance of every potential hot spot in Northeast Asia, from Beijing to Pyongyang to Taipei. As he gives a group of foreign journalists a briefing on Iwakuni, Satoru Shoji, an MSDF captain with the blunt build and cauliflower ears of a rugby player, points toward the area west of Japan on a map and says, "This is the area we have to watch out for." There isn't any doubt which countries he's referring to: North Korea and China...
...support from China and Russia, and with America having no serious military option, it is unclear how much Europe will be willing to compromise its own energy-supply relationship with Iran to prevent it from going nuclear. We can wonder whether any major country, except for maybe Britain and Japan, will back America on any issue where Russia and China are opposed...