Life’s a beach: Heading surfward on peaceful Kujukuri-hama. CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON PHOTOS Kujukuri: the long, long beach on Tokyo’s doorstep By CHRISTOPHER … Continue reading TRAVEL: Kujukuri — the long beach on Tokyo’s door-step
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/LG13Dh01.html A yellow card for Japan’s government TOKYO – For the second time in a year, Japanese voters, who are … Continue reading POLITICS: Japan voters give rulers a yellow card
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http://www.cnngo.com/tokyo/play/why-japan-winning-604967# At 5am Japanese fans flood Shibuya to cheer a well-deserved victory over Denmark. To understand why Japan is winning … Continue reading Why Japan is winning at World Cup in South Africa
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/LF23Dh01.htmlTOKYO – If you’re shopping in Tokyo for a new television to watch the football World Cup, would you still … Continue reading ECONOMY: A taxing problem for Japan
http://www.tinmoi.vn/Thai-Lan-Khi-qua-bom-nhan-khau-duoc-kich-no-05160412.html Thái Lan: Khi ‘quả bom nhân khẩu’ được kích nổ Bài viết cập nhật lúc: 06:36 ngày 15/05/2010 … Continue reading Vietnamese web piracy of CJ comment on Thailand
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/seealso/2010/05/daily_view_thai_violence.html Daily View: Thailand protests Clare Spencer | 10:36 UK time, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 Commentators try to explain and analyse the … Continue reading CJ quoted about Thailand on BBC News website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldhaveyoursay/2010/05/is_this_the_end_of_the_re… On air: Has the past week changed Thailand? Despite the fact that four senior Thai anti-government protest leaders … Continue reading CJ quoted on BBC about Thailand demographic timebomb
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Whats-Driving-the-Violen… What’s Driving the Violence in Thailand? On Thursday, as the Red Shirt protesters who rallied in Thailand’s capital for … Continue reading CJ quoted in the Atlantic Wire on Thailand
http://www.cfr.org/publication/editorial_detail.html?id=2016 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -Thai “Red Shirt” Clashes Intensify-U.S. Iraq Drawdown Plan On Track-Afghans Protest NATO-Led Raid-Three Arrested in Times Square … Continue reading CJ quoted in Council on Foreign Relations in Washington
Healing Thailand’s broken spirit Special to The Japan Times BANGKOK — To pacify a divided nation, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva … Continue reading commentary: Healing Thailand’s broken spirit
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http://www.fccj.or.jp/files/JULY%20issue.pdf Bangkok’s Stupid War by Christopher Johnson The banality of war and the folly of our attempts to cover … Continue reading Bangkok’s Stupid War — FCCJ magazine
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Most of the Red Shirt protesters in central Bangkok are middle-aged women, many with kids. See the full gallery on … Continue reading THAILAND: Women of the Red Zone
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A turning point in Thailand By CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON BANGKOK — Massive occupations of two areas of central Bangkok the past … Continue reading rise of radical migrants
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Inside their bamboo fortress in central Bangkok, Red Shirt protesters have been sleeping on hard hot streets for 30 days … Continue reading Inside Bangkok’s bamboo fortress, portraits of Red Shirts
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Check out this Globe and Mail article “The protesters’ true colours” at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-protesters-true-colours/arti… Christopher Johnson From Friday’s Globe and Mail … Continue reading Thailand needs social contract — Globe and Mail
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/is-japan-hurtling-t… Soaring debt, unsustainable government spending, slashed credit ratings. The problems that forced Europe to pledge a financial bailout for … Continue reading ECONOMY: Japan crawling into debt crisis?
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http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fv20100502a1.html The Zen nothingness of Zamami Japan on ¥1,000 a day? It’s certainly possible by cycling and camping on this … Continue reading Zen Nothingness of Zamami Island
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If Japan wants to host an Olympics again, it could learn a lot from Vancouver about how to hold a … Continue reading Japan’s No Fun Olympic Games
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As JAL’s sudden demise has shown, the most powerful person in Japan is not Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, or even … Continue reading The Source who Crashed Japan Airlines
Japan’s coaches criticize Olympic performance Christopher Johnson. The Globe and Mail. Feb 28, 2010 Like Canada in 2010, Japan had high hopes of owning … Continue reading Japan at Olympics — Globe and Mail
See the full gallery on Posterous http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/fears-rise-about-a-return-o… When Japanese companies run into deep trouble, the chief executive officer often resigns … Continue reading ECONOMY: Japan offended by US treatment of Toyota
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/as-shares-dive-new-ceo-boar… At 55, Masaaki Ueda was looking forward to retiring soon with a generous pension after 32 years of loyalty … Continue reading ECONOMY: Shares dive, new CEO boards JAL
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/the-jal-family-feud/article… Across Japan, thousands of members of the “JAL family,” from ground staff to pilots to the airline’s CEO, have … Continue reading ECONOMY: The ‘JAL family’ feud
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/in-deflation-era-japan-a-li… In 1989, when Mitsuo Tate left Tokyo to work in England, Japan’s cost of living was the world’s … Continue reading ECONOMY: In deflationary Japan, a Life of Minus
only journalist in Lhasa, breaks uprising worldwide http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0314/p01s03-wogn.html Police keep tight lid on Tibet after protests The region sees its … Continue reading Protests erupt in Lhasa, Tibet — CS Monitor
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Christopher Johnson, Associated Press dispatch, 14 October 1999 SUAI, East Timor (AP) – Australian peacekeepers on Thursday investigated bloodstains, bullet … Continue reading East Timor massacre — Associated Press
Basketball: World championships reflect a new parity http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/sports/11iht-hoops.2766103.html http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/11/sports/hoops.php SAITAMA, Japan — For the first time in its 115-year history, basketball … Continue reading Basketball: global parity — NY Times, IHT
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,445013,00.html See the full gallery on Posterous Monday, Apr. 21, 2003 Golf of Siam By Christopher Johnson It’s only … Continue reading Golf of Siam — TIME magazine
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