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...that it won't sell Beijing its best stuff. China wanted a new 4,100-km oil pipeline to go from Siberia directly into its territory, to ensure control over supplies; instead, Russia is building the main line to Nakhodka on the Pacific, from where it can sell to Japan, the U.S. and Korea, with just a branch to China. Perhaps the greatest potential deal the two could strike is on manpower. Russia's male life expectancy has slumped to 58. It faces a declining population and will need millions of new workers to keep its economy chugging. China could...
DIED. RYUTARO HASHIMOTO, 68, controversial former Prime Minister of Japan; of multiple organ failure; in Tokyo. A short-tempered politician and dapper dresser, Hashimoto achieved international fame as Trade Minister in 1995, when he feuded with Washington in an auto-sales dispute. As Prime Minister from January 1996 to July 1998, he launched financial reforms modeled on London's "Big Bang" deregulation and defused a crisis over U.S. bases in Okinawa. An expert swordsman, he quit politics last year after a scandal involving donations to his party...
...Washington. TR, as Theodore Roosevelt was popularly known, captured, to an extraordinary degree, the imagination of the American people. At the same time, he also captured the respect of much of the world, culminating with his being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for helping negotiate peace between Russia and Japan...
...Because of its association with the wartime State Shinto religion, Yasukuni has remained an enduring symbol for die-hard nationalists since Japan's defeat in 1945. Starting in 1959, priests there have quietly enshrined more than 1,000 convicted war criminals, including hundreds of military men who personally committed atrocities, ordered them to take place, or refrained from stopping them. At the shrine's museum, memorabilia from kamikaze pilots and the Burma death railway are displayed in an unequivocally celebratory and exculpatory style. Visitors there are told, for example, that U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt purposely drew Japan into...
...Many Japanese say such historical distortions at Yasukuni museum are disseminated by an ultra-conservative minority affiliated with the shrine, and that mainstream Japan has confronted its war past head on. Koizumi's Yasukuni visits are highly controversial in Japan itself, with public opinion split roughly in half. Yasuo Fukuda, a candidate to succeed Koizumi, has picked up support by publicly criticizing Koizumi's Yasukuni fetish. One of Japan's most influential business associations has called for the erection of a new, non-denominational memorial where the next prime minister can pay his respects instead. That may be the only...