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...European Champions' League is a kind of global soccer equivalent of Major League Baseball. And Beckham joining the L.A. Galaxy as the equivalent of a Ken Griffey, Jr., choosing, in the waning years of his playing career, to sign a last lucrative contract with a franchise in Japan - certainly good for the game in Japan, but more a testament to a player's declining abilities than to the talents he exhibited in his prime...
...cruisers. The nautical fireworks were part of an SDF exercise last October involving nearly 50 warships and 8,000 sailors in Sagami Bay, south of Tokyo. The maneuvers, held just a few weeks after North Korea tested a nuclear bomb, provided a forceful reminder that, despite the unassuming name, Japan possesses an advanced military-and knows...
...defense establishment accustomed to keeping a low profile since the disasters of World War II. Abe told reporters that he was "truly proud as the Prime Minister to have produced a Defense Ministry," and the name change is just a start-Abe has said he intends to revise Japan's pacifist constitution, and may move to do so this year. Normally, such a change would threaten to destabilize a region long wary of any resurgence of Japanese militarism. But Abe has worked hard to improve relations with his neighbors-a fact reflected in their muted reaction. While Pyongyang, predictably, took...
...when, and how would it happen? How comfortable would such a development be for the West? Can China's rise be managed peaceably by the international system? Or will China so threaten the interests of established powers that, as with Germany at the end of the 19th century and Japan in the 1930s, war one day comes? Those questions are going to be nagging at us for some time--but a peaceful, prosperous future for both China and the West depends on trying to answer them...
Bionade now faces a new set of challenges. Back in Ostheim, the small factory is overflowing with equipment and materials, barely able to keep up with demand. But Kowalsky and Co. are hatching plans to sell Bionade in Japan and North America by 2008. The U.S. is a tough market, says Gary Hemphill, managing director of Beverage Marketing Corp. in New York City: "The odds are stacked against any new product. If it is something that is foreign to people, then the company has to be able to communicate what the benefits...