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...that North Korea had kidnapped Japanese nationals, including Megumi Yokota, Abe became the face of Tokyo's response. When a group of surviving abductees visited Japan, Abe insisted they not return to the North. "From then on he was very popular on TV and among the general public," says Jun Iio, professor of government at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. This July, when North Korea test-fired missiles, Abe pushed for economic sanctions, and hinted that Japan needed to develop offensive capabilities to ensure its self-defense. The crisis proved a breaking point for Japan's traditional pacifist...
...Nevertheless, the vast majority of Chinese feel little restriction in voicing their growing faith. "My previous goal in life was to earn lots of money," says Zhou Jun, a Shanghai entrepreneur who runs a solar-heating company and converted to Tibetan Buddhism in 2004. "But now after studying Buddhism, I realize there is much more to life, and I want to share that lesson with everyone." Zhou now donates a chunk of his earnings to build new Tibetan Buddhist temples in western China, and has imparted the Buddha's teachings to his business partners. Tempering a capitalist impulse with...
...Bush?and Hu?manage to mollify those in Congress spoiling for a fight, then the risk of a trade war breaking out will ease. And eventually, free-market mechanisms?not ham-handed political intervention?may resolve the current bilateral trade tension. Jun Ma, chief China economist at Deutsche Bank, believes China is now in the midst of a historic economic shift. Investment spending is decelerating and consumption is picking up, although the shift is likely to take years to unfold. That, in turn, could bring China's trade surpluses down, as new opportunities open up for foreign companies that make...
These were elegant renditions of fashion's sober new mood. But some designers took the trend to an extreme, covering models' heads with paper-bag-like scarves, as the Japanese designer Jun Takashi did at Undercover, or at the show of Dutch duo Viktor & Rolf, shielding faces with fencing masks...
Read the Complete Interrogation Log: From the TIME Archive Jun 20, 2005 Inside the Interrogation of Detainee 063To get the "20th hijacker" to talk, the U.S. used a wide range of tactics...