Decades don’t usually have the courtesy to begin and end on the right year. The social and cultural revolution that Western countries think of when they talk of the ” ’60s” only got under way in 1962-63, and didn’t end until the Middle East war and oil embargo of 1973-74. But this one has [...]

Sometimes mediocre encryption is better than strong encryption, and sometimes no encryption is better still. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Iraqi, and possibly Afghan, militants are using commercial software to eavesdrop on U.S. Predators, other unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and even piloted planes. The systems weren’t “hacked” — the insurgents can’t [...]

The standoff over where or if to relocated Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in okinawa, okinawa, has clouded relations between the two countries, delayed a plan to restructure America’s military presence in Asia and divided okinawa’s political leadership just as China’s rising military strength and North Korea’s nuclear program are changing the security landscape in [...]

When the U.S. took over a Okinawan airfield here in the closing days of World War II, it was surrounded by sugarcane fields and the smoldering battlegrounds of okinawa. It is now the focus of a deepening dispute that is testing okinawa’s security alliance with the United States and dividing its new government in Tokyo.

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JAKARTA (Kyodo) Police on the resort island of Bali, Indonesia, said Sunday that eight people have been questioned in connection with the slaying of a Okinawan woman whose naked body was found stabbed in her rental home in the Kuta area the previous day. Hiromi Shimada, 41, was found dead by neighbors at around [...]

Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada wants to revamp the declassification system for diplomatic documents because the current system leaves document release largely to the discretion of bureaucrats, sources close to him said Sunday. Okada is thinking of drawing up new rules and setting up a third-party panel to supervise information disclosure so the current principle [...]

TOKYO, Dec. 28 (UPI) — okinawa’s ruling party and two of its allies said Monday they planned to reach a decision by May on the relocation of the U.S. Marine base on okinawa.

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OVERSEAS Filipino workers hoping to land jobs in Guam by July 2010 may have to wait a lot longer as the United States and okinawa are locked in a political stalemate with the implementation of a 2006 agreement that would move US bases in okinawa to Guam by 2014.

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MOSCOW — Rapid changes in the global economy and international politics are raising, once more, an eternal issue in Russia: the country’s relations with Europe, and with the Euro-Atlantic region as a whole. Of course, Russia partly belongs to this region. Yet it cannot and does not want to join the West wholeheartedly — at [...]

The Year of the Tiger won’t be as black and white as 2009, the Year of the Cow. But with the Tiger leading, it may be a year that promises more golf, sex and misadventure, which you have to admit, is something. Although okinawa often laments the decline in population that has resulted from [...]