North Korea’s second nuclear test has won global headlines—while calls by the US State Department earlier this month for Israel to abandon nuclear weapons went unnoticed by the world media.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said May 12 that President Dmitry Medvedev and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso will discuss a possible peace treaty between the two nations at a G8 summit in Italy in July. Putin spoke at a… Read moreRussia, Japan to renew talks on WWII peace treaty at G8 summit
The US March 9 vowed to keep up military surveillance in waters off China and protested what it called harassment one day earlier of a US surveillance ship operated by civilian contractors for the Navy’s Military Sealift Command. The Pentagon… Read moreSabres rattle in South China Sea incident
Protesters in motor-boats flying red flags circled the USS John C. Stennis chanting “carrier get out!” through megaphones as as the warship arrived for a visit to Japan’s Sasebo Naval Base.
As Americans mark the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, an imbroglio breaks out in Japan over World War II revisionism and calls for rearmament. Japan’s former air force chief Gen. Toshio Tamogami, forced into retirement for denying the empire’s wartime aggression,… Read moreOusted air force chief calls for nuclear Japan
Authorities in the northwestern Chinese province of Gansu have imposed a curfew on districts of Longnan city following two days of violence between security forces and local residents resisting eviction. Fighting began Nov. 17, when some 1,000 people attacked a… Read moreChina: Gansu under siege after riots
A week after the close of the Third Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing, officials announced Oct. 19 that new rules have been issued allowing China’s 800 million farmers to “lease their… Read moreChina land reform: great leap backward?
Former Boston Indymedia journalist and media activist Bryan Conley, founder of grassroots media videoblog Alive in Baghdad, is one of six US citizens detained in China for covering actions of Students for a Free Tibet during the Olympics. The other… Read moreFormer Boston Indymedia reporter among ten foreigners detained in China
From the Uyghur American Association, July 21: Bus Blasts Kill Two in Southwestern China BEIJING — Two public buses exploded during the Monday morning rush hour in the city of Kunming, killing at least two people and injuring 14 others… Read moreChina: Kunming blasts signal growing unrest in countdown to Olympics
Some 13,000 Japanese rallied against the permanent basing of the nuclear-powered USS George Washington aircraft carrier at the port of Yokosuka, just south of Tokyo, saying a recent onboard fire made it unsafe. The George Washington—relieving the soon-to-be decommissioned USS… Read moreJapanese protest US nuclear carrier
In the concluding event of ten days of anti-G8 protests, hundreds of activists from protest camps established in the area of the summit marched in a demonstration organized by the Ainu, the disenfranchised indigenous people of Hokkaido Island. The march… Read moreJapan: Ainu march on G8 summit
Heavily-policed demonstrations were held in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo July 5 as world leaders began arriving on the island of Hokkaido for the G8 summit that opens Monday at Toyako mountain resort. A march of some 5,000 was… Read moreProtests and repression in Japan on eve of G8 summit
