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...Hawks and Kangaroos Re "After Koizumi" [July 3]: you reported that Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe is known as a hawk and has even questioned the validity of the post-World War II Tokyo Tribunals war-crimes trials. I strongly support his position. Japan was forced to accept the judgments of the Tokyo Tribunals, a kangaroo court set up by the Allied forces as an act of revenge against Japan. It is high time that Japan declare it is not bound by the Tokyo Tribunals. Misao Nakaya Naha, Japan...
...Chinese characters our ancestors imported from China. In fact, on my solo trip there, I managed to communicate with a tea-shop owner for about an hour without talking. We did it, of course, by writing Chinese characters and smiling over cups of tea. Tetsuro Umeji Kudamatsu, Japan...
...When she was in college at Colgate, Edwards studied with Frederick Busch, who became a mentor. After earning her MFA in fiction and an MA in theoretical linguistics, both from the University of Iowa, she and her husband spent five years teaching English in Southeast Asia - Malaysia, Japan, and Cambodia. "It was a time of great learning and great growth and great excitement," she says. "The chatter of everyday life fell away, and it allowed me to listen more fully to the stories I wanted to tell. It also allowed me to take risks that I wouldn't have probably...
...population growth and greed, are pushing to extinction the other wonderful life-forms that share this little planet with us. Of course, one remedy would be to boycott all goods from nations that persist in the barbaric practice of commercial whaling. I refuse to purchase any goods made in Japan or any other country that voted for a return to the murder of whales. Jon Ralph Cape Town, South Africa
...Pickens, who owns a ranch in West Texas, says more than 100,000 horses are slaughtered in the U.S. every year for consumption as a "delicacy" by diners in Europe, mostly France and Belgium, as well as Japan - an idea that repulses and outrages him. "I can't imagine slaughtering a horse [to eat]," says Pickens, "It's absolutely un-American." The horses are slaughtered at one of three plants, two in Texas and one in Illinois, all owned by a Belgian entrepreneur. "We don't eat horsemeat here, so it does seem peculiar that someone from Belgium owns...