Word: tokyo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tokyo-based Swiss photographer Andreas Seibert set out to document the lives of some of the 130 million Chinese migrant workers who, through their toil, help make China the economic powerhouse it is today. Over the next six years, Seibert traveled to a dozen Chinese provinces and captured images of construction workers, waitresses and scavengers, among others, many of whom he says live a precarious existence due to hazardous working conditions or shady employers. Seibert's strength is in his long-form documentary storytelling, such as when he follows a Mr. Zhou, a solar-panel-factory worker...
...world relations, one of greater communication, collaboration and cooperation, even among historic foes. "As I have said, in an interconnected world, power does not need to be a zero-sum game, and nations need not fear the success of another," Obama said Saturday morning, in a speech at Tokyo's Suntory Hall, a modern concert hall...
...Tokyo speech Saturday, Obama addressed both concerns, but he did not lay out specific benchmarks for achieving them. "None of this will come easy," Obama said of his foreign policy goals in the region, "nor without setback or struggle." In the meantime, he seemed to be suggesting, it was important to make a public show of unity and a promise of greater engagement to come. Perhaps after that, he can begin to find solutions to the more challenging problems. As Obama concluded his speech, his rhetoric soared even higher. "At this moment of renewal," he said, "in this land...
...official message on the President's travels through Asia is that the U.S. cares about the region. "America understands the importance of Asia in the 21st century," White House aides repeat, in various iterations, with some frequency. On Friday night in Tokyo, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes went so far as to call Obama, "the first Pacific President that the U.S. has had" - a reference to Obama's childhood years in Hawaii and Indonesia. (See pictures of the first eight months of Obama's diplomacy...
...running up against international and domestic events. On the flight to Asia, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs came to the press cabin on Air Force One only to be barraged with 12 consecutive questions about Afghanistan, followed by a question about Iraq. Later on Friday night, in Tokyo, during a briefing by Gibbs and Rhodes about Obama's speech on Saturday morning laying out a vision of U.S.-Asian relations, another news event intervened: White House counsel Greg Craig was leaving the White House, to be replaced by Obama's personal and campaign attorney, Bob Bauer...