The Pacific War is a part of The Greater East Asia War. (The Pacific War + The Japan-China War = The Greater East Asia War) Communists of the world drove Japan into war. The Comintern played a particularly important role. Sorge and Hotsumi Ozaki who belonged to the Comintern were active in Japan.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton assured Japan on Friday of U.S. support in Tokyo's dispute with Beijing over a string of islands and invited new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Washington in late February for a meeting with President Barack Obama.
China's foreign ministry has strongly criticised the US for backing Japan's control of a disputed group of islands in the East China Sea.
Mrs Clinton had warned that the US opposed any action that would undermine Japanese administration of the islands
Senkaku islands (Japanese territory) The archipelago consists of five islands and three reefs Senkaku islands is territory of Japan and form part of Okinawa prefecture Japanese business man Kunioki Kurihara owned three of islands and sold them to the Japanese state
Senkaku Islands are important militarily and play a role to disturb aggression to the Pacific of the Chinese navy.
The North's National Defense Commission said the moves would feed into an "upcoming all-out action" that would target the United States, "the sworn enemy of the Korean people."
North Korea to carry out third nuclear test 'aimed at US' (THE TELEGRAPH) 24 Jan 2013 North Korea plans to carry out a third nuclear test and more rocket launches aimed at "arch-enemy" the United States.
Hackers from China have "persistently" infiltrated the New York Times for the last four months, the US paper says.
It said the attacks coincided with its report into claims that the family of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao had amassed a multi-billion dollar fortune.
The hackers used methods which have been "associated with the Chinese military" to target the emails of the report's writer, the paper said.
The New York Times said the hacking was focussed on the computers of David Barboza, the paper's bureau chief in Shanghai who wrote the report, and one of his predecessors, Jim Yardley.
The hackers had installed malware which enabled them to access any computer using the New York Times network, steal the password of every employee, and access 53 personal computers, mostly outside the Times offices.
The Times said experts had found that the attacks "started from the same university computers used by the Chinese military to attack United States military contractors in the past".
Hackers from China have infiltrated the computer systems of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), in the second reported attack on a major US news outlet.
The Journal says the hackers were trying to monitor its China coverage.
The New York Times reported earlier that Chinese hackers had "persistently" penetrated its systems for the last four months.
Beijing has been accused by several governments and companies of carrying out cyber espionage for many years.
Beijing has been accused by several governments, foreign companies and organisations of carrying out extensive cyber espionage for many years, seeking to gather information and to control China's image.
Mark W. Lippert (Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs (APSA)) who is visiting Japan said that North Korean long-range missile is menace to U.S. mainland.
APSA talked about the possibility that North Korea completed ICBM in the future. APSA supposed that there is still technical problem for nuclear warhead development of NK.
Japan says it may release evidence to prove a Chinese naval frigate locked its fire-control radar onto a Japanese ship near disputed islands.
Tokyo said it might release the data after Beijing rejected accusations it had targeted the destroyer last month.
The incident would be the closest the two countries have come to exchanging fire in the reignited dispute over the islands in the East China Sea.
"The government is considering the extent of what can be disclosed," Kyodo news agency quoted Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera as saying.
Earlier this week, Mr Onodera said a Japanese military helicopter was also targeted with a similar type of radar by another Chinese frigate on 19 January.
The U.S. says it believes its ally Japan's allegation that China activated its weapons-guiding radar last month in an escalation of tensions between the two Asian powers in the East China Sea.
China denies Japanese claims that Chinese naval vessels locked their radar onto a Japanese destroyer and helicopter. It accuses Japan of fabricating reports to smear China.
But State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Monday that the U.S. was briefed by Japan, and quote, "we have satisfied ourselves that it does appear to have happened."
China and Japan are embroiled in a territorial spat over a cluster of tiny islands called Senkaku in Japanese. Washington says it takes no stance in the sovereignty dispute, but opposes "unilateral actions" undermining Japan's administration of the islands.
A secretive branch of China's military is probably one of the world's "most prolific cyber espionage groups", a US cyber security firm has said.
Mandiant said Unit 61398 was believed to have "systematically stolen hundreds of terabytes of data" from at least 141 organisations around the world.
The White House said it has taken its concerns about cyber-theft to the highest levels of China's government.
In an indication of the military sensitivity around the Shanghai site pinpointed by the report as home to the hacking group, the BBC's John Sudworth and his camera crew were briefly detained by soldiers when they went to film the facility. They were only released once they had handed over their footage.
'Extensive campaign'
In its unusually detailed report, US-based computer security company Mandiant said it had investigated hundreds of data breaches since 2004, most of which it attributed to what it termed "Advanced Persistent Threat" actors.
The most prolific of these actors is APT1, which Mandiant says is "a single organisation of operators that has conducted a cyber espionage campaign against a broad range of victims since at least 2006".
The firm said it had traced the hacking activities of APT1 to the site of 12-storey building in the Pudong area of Shanghai. It said that Unit 61398 of the People's Liberation Army "is also located in precisely the same area" and that the actors had similar "missions, capabilities and resources".
The White House has vowed to fight foreign theft of US trade secrets, a day after a report linked China's military to prolific cyber-theft.
The administration's strategy document warned that such activity threatened US economic and national security. The US says it has repeatedly raised concerns with China about cyber-attacks and stolen trade data.
A secretive branch of China's military is most likely one of the world's "most prolific cyber espionage groups", a US cyber security firm has said. Mandiant said it had traced the hacking activities of APT1 to the site of a 12-storey building in the Pudong area of Shanghai. The BBC's John Sudworth went along to investigate but was stopped and briefly detained.
The asking security experts which powerful Washington institutions have been penetrated by Chinese cyberspies, and this is the usual answer: almost of them.
The list of those hacked in recent years includes law firms, think tanks, news organizations, human rights groups, contractors, congressional offices, embassies and federal agencies.
The trial in China of an elderly man accused of murder during the Cultural Revolution has sparked online debate.
(photo)The Cultural Revolution radicalised young Chinese into acts of violence against "elites"
The man, reportedly in his 80s and surnamed Qiu, is accused of killing a doctor he believed was a spy. The Cultural Revolution, launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, was an era of violence against intellectuals and other alleged bourgeois elements. Mao's 10-year Cultural Revolution was intended to produce massive social, economic and political upheaval to overthrow the old order. Ordinary citizens - particularly the young - were encouraged to challenge the privileged, resulting in the persecution of hundreds of thousands of people who were considered intellectuals or otherwise enemies of the state. The BBC's John Sudworth in Shanghai says the topic of what went on during the Cultural Revolution remains highly sensitive in China and public discussion of it is limited, but that the trial has caused fierce debate online.
The BBC has said shortwave broadcasts in English of World Service radio are being jammed in China.
"The BBC strongly condemns this action which is designed to disrupt audiences' free access to news and information," said the statement.
The BBC has experienced several instances of satellite services being jammed in recent years. Shortwave jamming is less frequent, it says, although it has hit transmissions by BBC Persian in Iran and was historically used to block broadcasts during the Cold War.
BBC director of global news Peter Horrocks said the jamming in China was being timed to cause maximum disruption to BBC World Service English broadcasts there.
"The deliberate and co-ordinated efforts by authorities in countries such as China and Iran illustrate the significance and importance of the role the BBC undertakes to provide impartial and accurate information to audiences around the world," he said.
Shinzo Abe, Japan's hawkish prime minister embroiled in a row with China over tiny islands, has invoked Baroness Thatcher's reflections on the Falklands war to stress the importance of the rule of law at sea.
Mr Abe, in a speech to parliament said Japan's national interests "lie in making the seas, which are the foundation of our nation's existence, completely open, free and peaceful."
Mr Abe went on to quote a remark from Baroness Thatcher's memoirs, reflecting on the Falklands war, in which she said Britain was defending the fundamental principle that international law should prevail over the use of force.
The war over the remote South Atlantic archipelago began when Argentine troops landed on the Falkland islands on April 2, 1982, and ended 74 days later with their surrender. The conflict killed about 650 Argentine and 255 British troops.
Continuing in his own words, Mr Abe said: "The rule of law at sea. I want to appeal to international society that in modern times changes to the status quo by the use of force will justify nothing."
Mr Abe, who took office in December after his conservative party's big election win, reiterated in his speech that the islands are Japanese territory, and urged Beijing not to escalate tensions.
He added, however, that Sino-Japanese relations were vital for Japan and said his door was always open to dialogue.
Abe also stressed the importance of the U.S.-Japan security alliance days after his summit with President Barack Obama.
U.S. memeber of the House of Representatives Randy Forbes (Republican) spoke as follows. (free translation) If U.S.A. expresses strongly that U.S.A. supports ally Japan, it restrains China most. U.S.A. expects stable of th East Asia, but China craves war. Japan and United States must issue clear messages for Japanese Senkaku Islands defense against the Chinese Communist Party. -U.S.A. supports Japan about Japanese Senkaku Islands -U.S.A. monitors aggression of China in detail
Yukichi was a Japanese author, Enlightenment writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur and journalist who founded Keio-Gijuku University, the newspaper Jiji-Shinpo and the Institute for Study of Infectious Diseases. His ideas about government and social institutions made a lasting impression on a rapidly changing Japan during the Meiji Era. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern Japan. He is called a Japanese Voltaire.
Kagawa stars as Man Utd extend lead (BBC) 2 March 2013 1742GMT Shinji Kagawa scored a hat-trick as Manchester United beat Norwich at Old Trafford and extended their lead at the top of the Premier League to 15 points. ttp://http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21556837
United deservedly opened the scoring when Kagawa volleyed past Mark Bunn in first-half stoppage time.
Norwich pressed for an equaliser but Kagawa ended their hopes with a neat finish before dinking a third.
Wayne Rooney sealed the victory with a stunning effort as United warmed up for the visit of Real Madrid in style.
Shinji Kagawa claimed his first hat-trick for United, with two nimble assists from Rooney, who completed the rout with a majestic finish.
The United manager also praised Kagawa, a ?12 million pound Japanese import from Borussia Dortmund last summer, who became the first Asian player to score a Premier League hat-trick.
Data from Connected China shows an increasing emphasis on provincial-level party leadership experience for Politburo members. In 1992, only nine of 23 Politburo members served as a provincial or municipal-level party chief. In the current Politburo, 19 of the 25 have held or currently hold a provincial post at this level, including Sun Zhengcai who is party secretary in Chongqing.
A businessman linked to a global football match-fixing ring is helping Singapore authorities with their inquiries, police say.
Tan Seet Eng, also known as Dan Tan, is said to be the central figure in a match-fixing organisation under investigation by Interpol.
Earlier, Italy arrested a suspected associate of Dan Tan in Milan.
Investigators have been critical of Singapore for allowing alleged match fixers to live there freely.
Dan Tan's name has appeared frequently in police reports about global corruption.
ethnic Chinese Criminal networks Dan Tan - alleged global match fixer
Believed to be an ethnic Chinese, in his late 40s Reportedly called "the boss" and "the capo" by his accomplices Seldom seen in public, he told a Singaporean newspaper in 2011 that he was innocent of all match-fixing charges Implicated by Interpol in fixing of hundreds of sports events, mostly football matches Reported to have a personal net worth of more than 58m doller (38m pound)
One of the battle front of the spy wars between China and U.S.A. is Okinawa.
According to Ministry of Defense, approximately 15,000 people of the personnel of U.S. Armed Forces in Okinawa live outside their base.
A large number of wiretaps were discovered in the apartment of a member and the person concerned of the United States Armed Forces.
According to the person related to the Pentagon, there was the case that data were stolen from home PCs and a wiretap was installed in at the home in Okinawa of the U.S. officer.
No.1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy is back and the stakes have never been higher.
Jack Ryan has only just moved back into the Oval Office when he is faced with a new international threat. An aborted coup in the People's Republic of China has left President Wei Zhen Lin with no choice but to agree with the expansionist policies of General Su Ke Qiang. They have declared the South China Sea a protectorate and are planning an invasion of Taiwan.
The Ryan administration is determined to thwart China's ambitions, but the stakes are dangerously high as a new breed of powerful Chinese anti-ship missile endangers the US Navy's plans to protect the island. Meanwhile, Chinese cyberwarfare experts have launched a devastating attack on American infrastructure. It's a new combat arena, but it's every bit as deadly as any that has gone before.
Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus may be just the wild card that his father needs to stack the deck. There's just one problem: someone knows about the off-the-books intelligence agency and threatens to blow their cover sky high.
Wikipedia: Threat Vector (novel) ttp://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat_Vector_(novel) Threat Vector is a political thriller novel by Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney published on December 4, 2012. The novel features the former CIA agent and president Jack Ryan and his son Jack Ryan Jr.
The plot centres on a plan by the People's Republic of China to invade Taiwan. China orchestrate crippling cyber attack against the U.S.
North Korea has threatened to exercise its right to stage pre-emptive nuclear attack against anyone who threatens them, with state media warning of a "thermonuclear war".
North Korea on Thursday vowed to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, amplifying its threatening rhetoric hours ahead of a vote by U.N. diplomats on whether to level new sanctions against Pyongyang for its recent nuclear test.
North Korea has announced it has scrapped all of its peace pacts with South Korea, cutting off the hotline between the nations' capital cities. That is why, the Korean War becomes "the State of War" that North Korea suggests from March 11.
A provocation by North Korea which South Korea assumes is following six items.
1. Cyberterrorism and normal terrorism for Seoul
2. Marine military attack such as the patrol sinking
3. Attack by the artillery in the neighborhood of military boundary
President Barack Obama has said in a TV interview that the US is engaging in "tough talk" with China about its alleged cyber attacks on America.
Mr Obama told ABC News some, but not all, hacking originating from China was state sponsored, although he played down congressional talk of a cyber war.
He spoke a day after US intelligence chiefs said cyber attacks had replaced terrorism as the main security threat.
Mr Obama was asked in the interview with ABC News, broadcast on Wednesday, about claims from US lawmakers that the scale of attacks on American firms and infrastructure amounted to a cyber "war" with China.
"You know, there's a big difference between them engaging in cyber espionage or cyber attacks and obviously a hot war," the president said.
(Washington, DC)?The chairmen of the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China today urged the Chinese government to end repressive policies against the Tibetan people and to resume a dialogue with the Dalai Lama amid ongoing and tragic Tibetan self-immolations, which have surpassed 100.
"We hope for an end to these tragic self-immolations soon. The Chinese government can reduce tension, but not through its current policy of harsher regulations and heavier security," said Senator Sherrod Brown, Chairman of the Commission. "Ending policies that deny Tibetans their freedoms of expression, association, and religion, while showing greater tolerance for cultural diversity, and resuming a dialogue with the Dalai Lama or his representatives without preconditions would go a long way toward easing tensions."
"In recent years, Chinese officials have tightened controls on Tibetan Buddhism and monastic institutions, used excessive force against peaceful demonstrators, promoted resettlement and educational policies that have threatened and disrupted Tibetan culture and language, and closed Tibetan areas off to the outside world," said Congressman Chris Smith, Cochairman of the Commission. "Reversing these policies and allowing international observers into the region would do much to alleviate the situation."
HONOLULU A defense contractor who works in intelligence at the U.S. Pacific Command has been charged with giving national security secrets to a 27-year-old Chinese woman with whom he was romantically involved, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Monday.
Benjamin Pierce Bishop, 59, is accused of sending the woman an email last May with information on existing war plans, nuclear weapons and U.S. relations with international partners, according to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Honolulu.
To receive a briefing on cybersecurity threats in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2014 and the Future Years Defense Program.
A secretive branch of China's military is probably one of the world's "most prolific cyber espionage groups", a US cyber security firm has said. Mandiant said Unit 61398 was believed to have "systematically stolen hundreds of terabytes of data" from at least 141 organisations around the world. The most prolific of these actors is APT1, which Mandiant says is "a single organisation of operators that has conducted a cyber espionage campaign against a broad range of victims since at least 2006".
Japan and the United States started the drafting of the Japan-U.S. joint military operation to defend Japanese Senkaku Islands against China. Shigeru Iawasaki, Chief of Staff of the Japanese self defense force and Samuel J. Locklear, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command will agree that they hasten strategy drafting in Hawaii.
If the People's Liberation Army invades Japanese Senkaku Islands, Japan and the United States jointly accomplish defense operation.
Hindustan times (an Indian news paper) dated April 7 repoted that activity in the Indian Ocean of the Chinese nuclear submarines threatened security of India.
An increasing number of Chinese submarines venturing into the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) pose a grave danger to India's security interests, a classified defence ministry document has revealed. Citing subsurface contact data shared by US forces, the document said at least 22 contacts were recorded with vessels suspected to be Chinese attack submarines patrolling outside Beijing's territorial waters last year. It has warned that the "implicit focus" of the Chinese navy appears to be undermining the Indian Navy's edge "to control highly-sensitive sea lines of communication".
[ENTER THE DRAGON] (The invasion of China) 45 number of submarines the Chinese navy has, compared with just 14 in the Indian Navy. STRING OF PEARLS Beijing has a network of ports/facilities in Bangladesh (Chittagong), Myanmar (Sittwe and Coco Island), Sri Lanka (Hambantota) and Pakistan (Gwadar) surrounding India.
Sir Winston Churchill will feature on the new design of a banknote which will enter circulation in 2016, the Bank of England has announced.
The wartime leader's image is planned to feature on the reverse of the new 5 pound note, together with one of his most celebrated quotations.
Churchill was chosen owing to his place as a ''hero of the entire free world'', said Bank governor Sir Mervyn King.
The artwork will also include: Churchill's declaration ''I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat'' which came in a speech in the Commons on 13 May 1940 A view of Westminster and the Elizabeth Tower from the South Bank A background image of the Nobel Prize for literature, which he was awarded in 1953
A failing student who tried to bribe his tutor while carrying a loaded air pistol has been jailed for 12 months. (Yang Li told the tutor: ''I am a businessman.'')
Yang Li, 26, placed 5,000 pounds in cash on the professor's table but when he was told to leave, the gun fell from his pocket. Sentencing Li at Bristol Crown Court, Judge Michael Longman told him the weapon had caused ''fear'' and ''alarm''. Li, who admitted bribery and possessing an imitation firearm, was also ordered to pay 4,800 pounds in costs. The court heard the innovation and technology management masters student had arranged the meeting with his University of Bath professor on 23 November. Mark Hollier, prosecuting, said Li was awarded a 37 per cent mark in his dissertation - three marks off the 40% needed to pass - and wanted to discuss his options. (Yang Li was carrying the air pistol when he went to meet his professor at the University of Bath)
Yang Li offered University of Bath professor 5,000 pounds in cash to change mark for dissertation, court told. Yang Li had a 0.177 air pistol with him when he went to meet his professor, Bristol crown court heard.
President Franklin Roosevelt was admired as a humanitarian--yet he shut America's doors to Jews fleeing the Holocaust. He called himself the champion of "the forgotten man," but when it came to the Jews under Hitler's jackboot, FDR turned away. Dr. Rafael Medoff's new book reveals starting new evidence about FDR's most shameful hour--his willingness to turn a blind eye to the systematic annihilation of six million European Jews. Medoff's groundbreaking research has uncovered documents revealing FDR's private opinions about Jews-- shocking new evidence that pulls back the curtain on why he refused to admit refugees or bomb the railways leading to Auschwitz. This gripping historical account of the real story of President Roosevelt's record on the Holocaust is a stunning expose of how FDR could have saved many innocent lives, yet chose not to.
China's government and military have targeted US government computers as part of a cyber espionage campaign, a US report on China says.
China has been accused of multiple cyber-attacks on US interests, which it denies
Intrusions were focused on collecting intelligence on US diplomatic, economic and defence sectors which could benefit China's own defence programme, it says.
This is the first time the Pentagon's annual report has directly linked such attacks to the Beijing government.
China called the report "groundless", saying it represented "US distrust".
A report from state news agency Xinhua cited Sr Col Wang Xinjun, a People's Liberation Army (PLA) researcher, describing the report as "irresponsible and harmful to the mutual trust between the two countries".
Both China and the US were victims of cybercrimes and should work together to tackle the problems, the agency quoted him as saying.
The Pentagon report also criticises a "lack of transparency" in China's military modernisation programme and defence spending.
President Franklin Roosevelt was admired as a humanitarian--yet he shut America's doors to Jews fleeing the Holocaust. He called himself the champion of "the forgotten man," but when it came to the Jews under Hitler's jackboot, FDR turned away. Dr. Rafael Medoff's new book reveals starting new evidence about FDR's most shameful hour--his willingness to turn a blind eye to the systematic annihilation of six million European Jews. Medoff's groundbreaking research has uncovered documents revealing FDR's private opinions about Jews-- shocking new evidence that pulls back the curtain on why he refused to admit refugees or bomb the railways leading to Auschwitz. This gripping historical account of the real story of President Roosevelt's record on the Holocaust is a stunning expose of how FDR could have saved many innocent lives, yet chose not to.
China's government and military have targeted US government computers as part of a cyber espionage campaign, a US report on China says.
Intrusions were focused on collecting intelligence on US diplomatic, economic and defence sectors which could benefit China's own defence programme, it says. This is the first time the Pentagon's annual report has directly linked such attacks to the Beijing government. China called the report ''groundless'', saying it represented ''US distrust''. A report from state news agency Xinhua cited Sr Col Wang Xinjun, a People's Liberation Army (PLA) researcher, describing the report as ''irresponsible and harmful to the mutual trust between the two countries''. Both China and the US were victims of cybercrimes and should work together to tackle the problems, the agency quoted him as saying. The Pentagon report also criticises a ''lack of transparency'' in China's military modernisation programme and defence spending.
'Exfiltrating information'
''In 2012, numerous computer systems around the world, including those owned by the US government, continued to be targeted for intrusions, some of which appear to be attributable directly to the Chinese government and military,'' the report from the US Department of Defense said. The attacks were focused on ''exfiltrating information'' that ''could potentially be used to benefit China's defence industry, high technology industries... and military planners,'' it said. It added that this was particularly concerning because the ''skills required for these intrusions are similar to those necessary to conduct computer network attacks''.
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced today the next Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (DDG) will be named USS Paul Ignatius and USS Daniel Inouye.
''As secretary of the Navy it is my privilege to name these ships to honor a respected naval leader and a true American hero.'' Mabus said. ''For decades to come, the future USS Paul Ignatius and USS Daniel Inouye will represent the United States and enable the building of partnerships and projection of power around the world.''
The future USS Paul Ignatius (DDG 117) honors Paul Ignatius who served as secretary of the Navy 1967--1969 and as assistant secretary of defense under President Lyndon Johnson. The future USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118) is named to honor former Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii. Inouye was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in Tuscany, Italy, during World War II and later became a U.S. senator. USS Paul Ignatius and USS Daniel Inouye will be the first naval ships to bear these names.
Arleigh Burke-class destroyers conduct a variety of operations from peacetime presence and crisis management to sea control and power projection. They are capable of fighting air, surface and subsurface battles simultaneously and contain a myriad of offensive and defensive weapons designed to support maritime warfare.
DDG 117 and DDG 118 are part of the DDG 51 multiyear procurement with the contract award to the building yard pending. The ships will be 509 feet long, have a beam length of 59 feet and be capable of operating at speeds in excess of 30 knots.
A Russian politician sparked a brief media storm claiming Edward Snowden, the US intelligence whistleblower, had agreed to an offer of political asylum from Venezuela, only to delete a Tweet referencing the offer minutes later.
The former CIA and National Security Agency (NSA) computer technician has been stranded in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport since June 23, after flying in from Hong Kong and having his passport revoked by US authorities. He had sought asylum from more than 20 countries in an attempt to evade the US justice system after exposing a vast US surveillance programme but had been thus far rebuffed. Alexei Pushkov, the head of the Russian lower house of parliament's international affairs committee, initially said on Twitter: "As was expected, Snowden agreed to (Venezuelan President Nicolas) Maduro's offer of political asylum. ''Apparently this option looked like the most reliable one to Snowden.'' There was immediate confusion however as Mr Pushkov deleted the tweet, but not before it had been picked up by a number of media organisations. He could not immediately be reached for comment.
The case of Yuri Rastvorov In this case, a Russian spy (Yuri Rastvolov, MVD agent in Tokyo) for fear of execution in the Soviet Union took refuge in U.S.A. in 1954. Rastvolov revealed that there were a lot of cooperators of Russian espionage in a Japanese returned soldier*1.
*1. According to the certain information, 500 Japanese returned soldier who were made to write a spy written oath, the potential cooperator seemed to be 8,000 returned soldiers. ttp://http://espionagehack.webs.com/index2.html#r3
The counterespionage organization of GHQ (General Head Quarter; General of the Army Douglas MacArthur oversaw the occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951) and the Russian spy organization (NKVD, MVD, NKGB, KGB, FSB, GRU, SVR) performed many fierce battle in Tokyo.
''The Seat of Great Japanese Empire promotes a breakdown to Soviet Union and communism'' reported by stationed-in-Bern Chinese Nationalist Party military officer in June, 1945. This diplomatic cryptogram was decoded and reported as ULTRA, and it is kept now by The National Archives United Kingdom, London.
This document supports that Soviet Union communism spread among the center of Great Japanese Empire.
Comintern member They let Japan make war on U.S.A. intentionally and let Japan defeat and were going to achieve a communism revolution in Japan.
A LEAKED document from China has raised embarrassing questions over the validity of a law degree awarded to its leader, Xi Jinping, in 2002 at a crucial moment in his rise to rule over the country of 1.3bn people. Analysis of Xi's unpublished dissertation for the degree, a copy of which was handed to The Sunday Times in Hong Kong last week, lends weight to claims among Chinese academics that he used others to help with his thesis. The contents of the work, A Tentative Study on China's Rural Marketisation, also appeared to have little to do with the discipline of law. Critics of the Communist party allege that Xi, 60, was granted the post-graduate doctorate by the prestigious Tsinghua University merely to burnish his credentials for political leadership.
A defector from the NKVD in Japan in January 1954, Rastvorov approached a Secret Intelligence Service officer after he had taken English lessons from an elderly British lady in Tokyo and negotiated his resettlement, but at the last moment he changed his mind and opted to go to the United States. Once in America, Rastvorov identified his contacts in Japan and gave his name to two articles published in Life magazine. He later married his Central Intelligence Agency debriefer, with whom he had two daughters, after being divorced by his wife in Moscow, a ballerina. Under the name Martin Simons, he was an enthusiastic tennis player but an unsuccessful businessman and had to be bailed out financially by his CIAhandlers. Convinced his life was in danger, he always kept a gun handy. Rastvorov/Simons died in 2004 and his obituary, which made front-page news, was based largely on his CIA file, which was hastily declassified for the purpose by his lifelong friend, CIA counterintelligence expert Paul Redmond.
American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate and Beyond p.92 ttp://http://www.amazon.com/dp/0471789828 Spies were indeed everywhere. Befitting my status in Japan, I had joined the prestigious Tokyo Lawn Tennis Club as would have been expected of me if I was truly a civilian. I didn't know it, but a Soviet KGB agent, Yuri Rastvorov, under cover as the second secretary of the Soviet Mission, had done the same thing in an attempt to recruit an American. His efforts had proved fruitless, however, and he was recalled to Moscow. Unproductive agents were dealt with severely in the Soviet Union, so he defected to the British embassy on a cold winter morning.
The Louvre discovered fake tickets that at first appeared ''in every way identical to the genuine article, ''the spokesperson said.
Then, at the end of August, Belgian customs officers seized more than 4,000 forged Louvre passes in a parcel from China.
The counterfeit tickets being worth at least 36 euro (48 dollar) each, that haul alone would have saved the scammers at least 144,000 euro (about 191,000 dollar).
The United States and Japan moved Thursday to modernize and expand their defense alliance to counter new challenges, including a nuclear-armed North Korea and potential aggression from China over disputed territory.
China has criticised the US space agency Nasa over its decision to bar Chinese scientists from attending a conference in the United States.
The meeting is a key event for scientists searching for planets beyond the solar system. Nasa has rejected applications from Chinese nationals, citing a new security law. In Beijing, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying called the move ''discriminatory''. The conference is for US and international teams who work on Nasa's Kepler space telescope programme. It will be held at Nasa's Ames research centre in California next month.
Boycott Nasa has based its ban on a new law which prohibits anyone from China setting foot in any of its buildings. The law, passed in March, is part of a broad and aggressive move initiated by congressman Frank Wolf, chair of the House appropriations subcommittee that has jurisdiction over Nasa. The counter-espionage legislation aims to restrict foreign nationals' access to Nasa facilities. Nasa's decision has angered many US scientists who say Chinese students and researchers in their labs are being discriminated against. A growing number of US scientists have decided to boycott the meeting in protest, with senior academics withdrawing individually, or pulling out their entire research groups. Rep Wolf himself called Nasa's decision ''inaccurate''. He said the purpose of the law was to prevent Nasa from co-operating with the Chinese government and Chinese-owned companies, not individuals.
In the United States, anti-Japan propaganda was intense before the WWII as well as the present. The wirepuller of the anti-Japan propaganda was the Chinese Communist Party and the American Communist Party and Comintern. The prewar consul general to New York; Kaname Wakasugi reported the actual situation of the anti-Japan propaganda to Japanese government by a secret telegram, but the report wasn't reflected to a Japanese Policy. (The then Japanese Government was penetrated by the Comintern)
Wakasugi warned the Japanese Government that Japan mustn't be instigated to Japan-U.S. estrangement espionage by the Comintern. However, the Japanese Prime Minister of Fumimaro Konoe who was controlled by the Comintern brought Japan close to the Pacific War.
Jack Ryan has only just moved back into the Oval Office when he is faced with a new international threat. An aborted coup in the People's Republic of China has left President Wei Zhen Lin with no choice but to agree with the expansionist policies of General Su Ke Quiang. They have declared the South China Sea a protectorate and are planning an invasion of Taiwan. The Ryan administration is determined to thwart China's ambitions, but the stakes are dangerously high as a new breed of powerful Chinese anti-ship missiles endanger the US Navy's plans to protect the island. Meanwhile, Chinese cyber warfare experts have launched a devastating attack on American infrastructure. It's a new combat arena, but it's every bit as deadly as any that has gone before. Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus may be just the wild card that his father needs to stack the deck. There's just one problem: someone knows about the off-the-books intelligence agency and threatens to blow their cover sky high.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says other countries want Japan to adopt a more assertive leadership role in Asia to counter the growing power of China.
Mr Abe told the Wall Street Journal there were "concerns that China was trying to change the status quo by force, rather than by the rule of law". Relations between China and Japan have been strained over recent years. China said on Saturday that if Japan shot down Chinese drones, this would be considered ''an act of war'' by Beijing. The statement was referring to reports that Mr Abe had approved defence plans that envisaged using air force planes to shoot down unmanned Chinese aircraft in Japanese airspace. Another contentious issue between the two countries is the dispute over a group of islands. The islands, in the East China Sea, are controlled by Tokyo, but claimed by Beijing. But analysts say the nations' rivalry reflects the power shift created by China's meteoric economic and diplomatic rise while Japan has been mired in a two-decade economic slump. China has warned against Japanese nationalism in a region where Japan's colonial expansionism is still bitterly remembered.
'Act of war'
In the interview, Mr Abe said he had realised that ''Japan is expected to exert leadership not just on the economic front, but also in the field of security in the Asia-Pacific''. He promised policies to counter Japan's waning influence. Other countries wanted Japan to stand up to China, Mr Abe said without naming any.
''There are concerns that China is attempting to change the status quo by force, rather than by rule of law. But if China opts to take that path, then it won't be able to emerge peacefully,'' Mr Abe says.
As the BBC's Celia Hatton explains, the BBC team were pulled over by the police when they tried to film the aftermath of the crash
Chinese state media have said at least five people died and 38 others were injured after a vehicle crashed in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Three of those killed were inside the car and the other two were bystanders. The square was evacuated and quickly reopened after the vehicle went into the crowd in front of the Tiananmen rostrum at midday. Images posted online showed a vehicle in flames, amid barricades. There has been no explanation for the crash. Other pictures on social media showed a column of smoke rising from the scene of the crash. Three people inside the vehicle died, Beijing police said on its official microblog account, adding that one female tourist from the Philippines and a male tourist from Guangdong province had also died. Senior leaders from both the central government and the local authorities in Beijing and the Ministry of Public Security have visited the scene, it said. An investigation is under way and the injured have been taken to hospital, Beijing police said.
Tiananmen Square was the scene of the 1989 pro-democracy protests which were ended by a military crackdown. The site is generally kept under very tight security both because of its proximity to key political institutions and so that is does not serve as a hub for protesters and petitioners. Incidents do occur, nonetheless. In 2011, a man set himself on fire at Tiananmen Square following what officials said was a legal dispute, close to the square's portrait of Chairman Mao. Two years before that, three people set themselves on fire in a car at a busy intersection near Tiananmen Square over what the authorities called personal grievances.
China's leaders may have thought that by frequently dispatching ships and planes into Japan's territory around the tiny Senkaku Islands they would cause Tokyo to bow to their demands. Instead, their strategy of harassment and intimidation has accomplished the opposite--and then some.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has rallied Japanese to defend their territorial sovereignty, and he may succeed in reinterpreting the Japanese constitution to allow Japan to come to the military aid of its allies.
Japan has also strengthened its ties with Southeast Asia. Smaller regional powers have come to see Tokyo as a potential defender, along with the U.S., of the peace against a hegemonic Middle Kingdom.
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The danger now is that the chances of accident, miscalculation or even a shooting incident grow with each Chinese foray near the islands. That's what makes Japan's demonstration of political resolve and military capability all the more important, but Japan cannot be left on its own. The U.S. took the Senkakus from Japan after World War II and returned them in the early 1970s, effectively settling the question of their sovereignty for American purposes. The more explicit the Obama Administration is that the Senkakus are Japanese, the likelier Beijing is to back down.
According to the historical materials of U.S. forces, comfort women had large sum of money and they could buy anything which they wanted. The real image of the comfort women was totally different from ''the sex slave'' whom Korea claimed. ttp://http://sankei.jp.msn.com/politics/news/131105/plc13110509210006-n1.htm (from Sankei Shimbun) 5 Nov. 2013
Korea is spreading groundless propagandas of comfort women of WWII as ''sex slaves''. How was the true life at that time of comfort women? According to the historical materials of U.S. forces, the real image of the comfort women was totally different from "the sex slave" whom Korea claimed.
United States Office of War Information (ONI), Psychological Warfare Team
PREFACE This report is based on the information obtained from the interrogation of twenty Korean ''comfort girls'' and two Japanese civilians captured around the tenth of August, 1944 in the mopping up operations after the fall of Myitkyin a in Burma
A ''comfort girl'' is nothing more than a prostitute or ''professional camp follower'' attached to the Japanese Army for the benefit of the soldiers.
LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS; They lived well because their food and material was not heavily rationed and they had plenty of money with which to purchase desired articles. They were able to buy cloth, shoes, cigarettes, and cosmetics to supplement the many gifts given to them by soldiers who had received ''comfort bags'' from home.
Offshore Control: A Proposed Strategy for an Unlikely Conflict by T.X. Hammes, Institute for national strategic studies, Strategic Forum June 2012 NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY ttp://http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a577602.pdf
Any U.S. military strategy for Asia must achieve five objectives: 1. access for U.S. forces and allied commercial interests 2. assurance to Asian nations that the United States is both willing and able to remain engaged in Asia 3. deterrence of China from military action to resolve disputes 4. victory with minimal risk of nuclear escalation in the event of conflict 5. credibility in peacetime.
A Proposed Strategy The strategy of Offshore Control works with willing Asia-Pacific nations to ensure that the United States can interdict China's energy and raw material imports and industrial exports, while protecting our partners.
Five Key Assumptions. 1. China starts the conflict 2. There is a high probability that a conflict with China would be a long war 3. Any major conflict between the United States and China would result in massive damage to the global economy. 4. The United States does not understand China's nuclear decision process 5. In space or cyber domains, a first strike provides major advantages
North Korea is a failing state. Its government could collapse in the coming months or years, causing an immense humanitarian disaster and potentially other, even more serious consequences. This report assumes that the Republic of Korea (ROK) would decide to intervene in such a crisis with U.S. assistance and seek Korean unification. Nei-ther the ROK nor the United States is adequately prepared for such an intervention. Inadequately prepared, the ROK and the United States could suffer many serious consequences, including a failed or aborted intervention, a destabilization of the region, and possibly broader warfare.
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The immediate past U.S. commander in Korea, GEN Walter Sharp, summarized the North Korean situation this way:
Combined with the country's disastrous centralized economy, dilapidated industrial sector, insufficient agricultural base, malnourished military and populace, and developing nuclear programs, the possibility of a sudden leadership change in the North could be destabilizing and unpredicable.
Such a sudden change could occur if the current North Korean leader, Kim Jong-Un, is assassinated, leaving no clear successor and the potential division of the senior North Korean leadership into factions that would likely wage civil war against each other. Such a government collapse would develop into a humanitarian disaster, one that would likely force ROK, U.S., and Chinese intervention to resolve the resulting threats both within the region and beyond.
Japan is surrounded by military threats therefore potent intelligence is indispensable for Japan.
Japan should have the central intelligence agency, and the agency shoule have shields and swords. Furthermore, Japanese intelligence agency must be closely connected to the national security council.
The nation which lacks in intelligence should annihilate, therefore Japan should have own intelligence organization. author; Atsuyuki Sassa ttp://http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4759313176
The Chinese military authorities succeeded in a coup d'etat and have already taken over the Chinese government. Xi Jinping is only a puppet of the Chinese military authorities.
Yasukuni Shrine is equivalent to Arlington National Cemetery - Kevin M Doak, Professor and Nippon Foundation Endowed Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Georgetown University (Sankei Shimbun) 28 Dec 2013 ttp://http://sankei.jp.msn.com/life/news/131228/trd13122809350004-n1.htm
The war dead of the Boshin War (1868-1869, the Civil War for Japan) is enshrined in Yasukuni shrine. Therefore Yasukuni shrine is equivalent to American Arlington National Cemetery.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants to only remember the Japanese war dead killed in action at home and abroad. Yasukuni shrine worship of the prime minister isn't justification of the war and doesn't mean militancy.
Prime Minister Abe performed the memorial service of the foreign war dead (include American, Chinese etc.) at ''Chin-Kon-Sya''. This shows will for the peace.
An eccentric Chinese tycoon announced on Tuesday he wants to buy The New York Times.
Chen Guangbiao, the self-made owner of a recycling empire, said he is due to meet a ''leading shareholder'' in the Times on Jan. 5 to open negotiations, even though the company's chairman, Arthur Sulzberger Jr, has long insisted the Times is not for sale. ''There's nothing that can't be bought for the right price,'' Chen Reuters.
The FBI has arrested a Chinese national for allegedly setting fire to the Chinese consulate building in San Francisco, damaging the compound.
Yan Feng, 39, who lives in a suburb of the city, handed himself in to police on Friday, two days after the fire. He is said to be a permanent US resident with no criminal record. No-one was injured by the fire, but Chinese officials said the building was ''severely damaged'' and condemned it as a ''vicious, destructive act of arson''. Consular officials said an unidentified person had parked a van in front of the building then poured two cans of petrol on the main gate and set it ablaze. FBI Special Agent in Charge David Johnson refused to discuss a motive for the crime, but said the agency was not investigating the case as an act of terrorism. Mr Feng faces charges of property damages and arson. ''We're looking at it purely as a criminal matter,'' Mr Johnson said.
SAN FRANCISCO?The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS), the San Francisco Police Department, and the Daly City Police Department have arrested without incident last Friday an individual suspected of damaging the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China office in San Francisco. According to a criminal complaint, Yan Feng, 39 of Daly City, California, detonated incendiary or explosive devices in the vicinity of the front entrance of the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco on January 1.
Kenichiro Sasae is Japan's ambassador to the United States.
China has been conducting a global propaganda campaign against Japan, the most recent example of which was the Jan. 10 Post op-ed by Cui Tiankai, China's ambassador to the United States. But his op-ed was wrong, and China's leaders clearly misread global attitudes. It is not Japan that most of Asia and the international community worry about; it is China.
First of all, the Yasukuni Shrine, which was the focus of Beijing's most recent round of anti-Japan op-eds, is a place where the souls of those who sacrificed their lives for the country since the Meiji Restoration of 1868 have been enshrined. Japanese people visit the shrine to pray for the souls of the war dead - more than 2.4 million - not to glorify war or honor or justify a small number of Class A war criminals.
Last month, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the shrine and Chinreisha, a memorial for all war dead around the world, to make a pledge for everlasting peace based on his deep remorse for the past. Like many other Japanese people, he said he wished to visit the shrine in sincere remembrance of the suffering and sacrifice of Japan's soldiers and non-Japanese alike. He did not go to pay homage to Class A war criminals nor to hurt the feelings of the Chinese or Korean people.
It is important to note that China began raising this issue with political motives in 1985. At that time, more than 20 visits by prime ministers to Yasukuni had gone unchallenged, even after 14 Class A war criminals had been enshrined there in 1978.
Among thousands of Chinese users of tax havens revealed in the ICIJ files are relatives of the country's top leaders and some of China's wealthiest men and women. Explore their links to power and to the offshore economy.
The Red Nobility Xi Jinping - Deng Jiagui (Brother-in-law of President Xi Jinping) offshores: Excellence Effort Property Development Ltd., British Virgin Islands 2008
A non-profit organisation estimates that more than 1tn dollars in illicit funds flowed out of China from 2002-2011
A trove of leaked financial documents 160 times bigger than the famous Wikileaks classified cables has now revealed the secret offshore banking dealings of thousands of well-connected people in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The brother-in-law of Xi Jinping, China's president, is among those named in an investigation into how the country's political, military and business elites are using secretive offshore companies
Relatives of top Communist Party leaders, including the brother-in-law of Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, are allegedly using offshore tax havens that help 'shroud' their wealth, leaked financial documents show.
Despite initial high expectations, the Indian Air Force appears to be souring on a joint development deal with Russia for a new fifth-generation fighter jet, according to the Business Standard, a major Indian business publication. The Russian prototype is ''unreliable, its radar inadequate, its stealth features badly engineered,'' said Indian Air Force Deputy Air Marshall S Sukumar at a Jan. 15 meeting, according to minutes obtained by the Business Standard.
That contrasts sharply with high hopes voiced by the Indian government when the joint project, to which the Indian government has contributed 6 billion dollars, began.
''[The new plane] will have advanced features such as stealth, supercruise, ultra-maneuvrability, highly integrated avionics suite, enhanced situational awareness, internal carriage of weapons and Network Centric Warfare capabilities,'' the Indian government said in a December 2010 press release. Those are all hallmarks of ''fifth generation'' aircraft.
The Indian Air Force did not respond to a request for comment.
But it is hardly surprising that the invisible-to-radar Russian fighter planes don't quite live up to the billing, according to defense experts reached by FoxNews.com.
The Outbreak of China-U.S. War (the title in Japanese), Threat Vector (Original title) [writer: Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney]
Volume One ttp://http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4102472533 Chinese People's Liberation Army started aggression of the South China Sea! The Chinese Communist Party has begun to use the land, the sea, the sky, space and cyberspace for war.
Volume Two ttp://http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4102472541 The Cyber strike force which Xi Jinping instructs is ''Unit 61398''. The People's Liberation Army invaded an air boundary of Taiwan and invaded the Philippine sea area. The crisis of the U.S.-China all-out war is looming.
Volume Three The People's Lieration Army blockaded the South China Sea. The Chinese Navy fired four anti-ship missiles and damaged an Indian aircraft carrier. The American President surrendered to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Volume Four The attack of Xi Jinping's ''Unit 61398'' destroyed the central of America and paralyzed the whole land of America. Will U.S.A. surrender to China? This book is like the last will and testament of Tom Clancy.
That is the assessment of a top U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, who told colleagues that China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) is currently conducting training exercises in a practice scenario in which the military takes the Senkaku Islands, near Taiwan.
''We witnessed the massive amphibious and cross-military region enterprise,'' Capt. James Fannell, deputy chief of staff intelligence and information operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet (PACFLEET) said at the West 2014 conference on Feb. 13 in San Diego.
''[We] concluded that the PLA has been given the new task to be able to conduct a short, sharp war to destroy Japanese forces in the East China Sea following with what can only be expected a seizure of the Senkakus or even a southern Ryukyu [islands] ? as some of their academics say.''
China has been training for a ''short, sharp war'' against Japan in the East China Sea, a senior US military officer has claimed, in comments that underline the growing military tensions in the western Pacific.
Ukrainian interim President Olexander Turchynov has warned Russia against any ''military aggression'' in Crimea. He said Russia's troops from Russia's Black Sea Fleet should not move outside their naval base in Sevastopol. The warning comes after armed men seized Crimea's regional parliament and the government headquarters of the Russian-majority region.
Russia has put 150,000 combat troops on high alert near its border with Ukraine. The Russian defence Ministry says it is taking measures to guarantee the safety of the Black Sea Fleet, which is based in Crimea. In Ukraine, a new government is due to be approved by parliament later as it seeks to address the tensions which are threatening the country.
A Russian intelligence agency (SVR, FSB, ex-KGB) which Putin commands takes over Ukraine secretly, and Putin instigates Russian Ukrainian to segregation of Ukraine. President Obama and EU and the U.K. which are pro-communism leave Ukraine in a lurch. Jack Ryan and The Campus who are the hero in the novel of Tom Clancy save Ukraine, but there isn't the hero in real world.
We overdo the talk of turning points and milestones in covering summits, but, when it comes to the G7 at The Hague, it's very hard to see it in any other terms.
Events in Ukraine have profoundly changed Western perceptions towards Russia and it's very hard to envisage any rapid return to business as usual. Arriving in the Netherlands for this summit, President Barack Obama said the US and Europe were united in imposing sanctions that would bring ''significant consequences to the Russian economy''. Michael McFaul, the former US ambassador in Moscow, wrote on Monday morning that President Putin ''embraces confrontation with the West... [and] has made a strategic pivot''. Carl Bildt, Sweden's foreign minister, added on Twitter that Mr McFaul's gloomy prognosis was understating the problem since the Russian president was ''building on deeply conservative orthodox ideas''. When the people responsible for good East-West relations are saying this, you know that this is no flash in the pan.
So is this Cold War Two or a lesser realignment in world politics?
Much depends on Russian actions during the coming days: an invasion of eastern Ukraine would likely trigger a full-scale trade war, but consolidation of the hold on Crimea, with continued covert support to militant Russian groups in Donetsk or Kharkiv, would pose a trickier dilemma to Western policymakers.
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But many uncertainties remain, including, at the most dramatic level, whether further Russian military action might lead to large-scale sanctions, US troop cuts in Europe being reversed, and a new diplomatic ice age.
(Reuters) - The United States is scrapping plans for a Navy ship to join a fleet review in China after key ally, Japan, was not invited, U.S. officials said on Thursday, in a move that came just ahead of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's trip to Japan and China.
The United States had been invited to participate in the fleet review - essentially a parade of ships - as part of activities linked to the Western Pacific Naval Symposium, which is being held this month in Qingdao, an eastern port city.
The United States will still participate in the naval symposium and will observe the review, one official said.
''We're not going to put a ship in the actual parade. We'll observe the parade, ''the U.S. official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity, adding the decision was taken last week and came after a request by ally Japan.
Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera told a news conference on Friday that Japan would take part in the regularly held naval symposium but confirmed that it had not been invited to the fleet review.
Independent senator Nick Xenophon is calling for an urgent inquiry into the Chinese hacking of Parliament's computer networks, saying the intelligence breach that lasted up to one year was a national security scandal.
The Chinese intelligence agencies that penetrated Australia's parliamentary computer network in 2011 may have been inside the system for up to a year and had access to documents and emails that reveal the political, professional and social links across the political world, according to seven sources with knowledge of the breach.
The West and Russia have sailed into uncharted waters. Crimea has de facto declared independence from Kiev. Russia has intervened to effectively secure the new entity without, so far, a shot being fired. The Ukrainian police, security, and military forces on the peninsula have been neutralized, many of them pledging allegiance to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. In Kiev, the new government talks about Russia's aggression and orders mobilization -- even as it loses control over some of the key cities in the country's east and south. Meanwhile, the West has responded with suspension of preparations for the G-8 summit in Sochi. The U.S. president has talked about Russia paying a high price for its actions, and the U.S. secretary of state has laid out a menu of possible sanctions and other measures.
A former Polish war refugee who met Prince Charles in Canada has said he likened some Nazi actions in Europe to those of Russia's Vladimir Putin.
Marienne Ferguson was speaking after meeting Prince Charles at a Nova Scotia immigration museum where she works. As they discussed Hitler's takeover of countries, the prince ''said something to the effect of 'it's not unlike... what Putin is doing,'' she recalled.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin has signed multi-billion dollar, 30-year gas deal with China.
The deal between Russia's Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) has been 10 years in the making. No official price has been given but it estimated to be worth over 400 billion dollar.
Guy Burgess and Donald Duart Maclean were constantly drunk, the files say
Members of the ''Cambridge Five'' spy ring were seen by their Soviet handlers as hopeless drunks incapable of keeping secrets, newly-released files suggest.
Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, ''Kim'' Philby and Anthony Blunt were recruited as Soviet spies while at Cambridge University in the 1930s.
There may have been a fifth spy in the ring, possibly John Cairncross.
The families of some of the 10 British victims of flight MH17 say their loved ones were killed in an ''act of war'', as evidence mounted that a missile supplied by Moscow brought down the Malaysia Airlines flight
There is a saying that great men make history and history makes great men. Ronald Reagan was the living example of this when, on September 1, 1983, the Soviet Union, without warning, shot down a civilian Korean airliner flying from New York to Seoul, killing all 269 men, women and children on board. Reagan was on vacation at his ranch in California. He cut his vacation short and headed back to Washington the next day.
This is Barack Obama's chance to make history. Will he seize the moment and reverse course? If so, he will restore defense spending. He will take back all those pink slips he?fs just sent to members of the military. He will reinstate the defense missile shield for Poland and the Czech Republic. He will rally our European allies to stand up to Putin. And he will accelerate American energy independence efforts, so that we and our European allies are no longer subject to Russian energy blackmail.
As it happened: Reaction to Malaysian plane crashes in Ukraine News and reaction after a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 crashes in Ukraine, close to the Russian border.
Communists ruled Japan in 1945 - 1952. E.H. Norman (Canadian diplomat, GHQ counter intelligence officer) was a communsit. The Constitution of Japan was made by communists of GHQ which ruled Japan 1945 - 1952.
The Constitution of Japan has been affected by the Marxism, and if this constitution has been left untouched, democracy of the world and Japan will be damaged.
U.K. and U.S.A. that is Churchill and Roosevelt were supporting communism. Therefore the U.K. and the United States supported that communist state Russia invaded Japan. Because the hub of Japan was taken over by a communist, Japan wasn't able to use espionage for national defense definitely. After World War II, Japan continued being ruled unfairly by the allied powers of the communism and was polluted. The sneaked Britain and United States of America continued insulting Japan.
Japan continued fighting in loneliness for justice.
The U.K. and the United States were supporting communism and attacked Japan in support of Russia of the communist state, and they used nuclear bombs against Japan.
The Emperor of Japan continued lonely fighting against communism. The Japanese Emperor saved Japan in half a century and left the world. Japan is a model of the anti-communism now in the current world.
Japan is a symbol of the justice of the modern international community.
The root of Japanese justice is the Emperor of Japan.
Korean comfort women were mere prostitutes - Nevertheless the Asahi Shimbun reported Korean prostitutes as victims intentionally. The Asahi Shimbun has reported intentional fabrications as minion of the communism, Russia and China.
- Dealing with America's China Problem in Asia ? Targeting China's Vulnerabilities, By Robert Sutter Jul 21, 2014, a professor at George Washington University
The options include the following:
1. Remind China of its serious anti-submarine limitations. Chinese military planners and Chinese leaders will be confused.
2. Allowing the sale of the 66 F-16 fighter jet to Taiwan
3. Adopting a higher profile in support for free expression in Hong Kong.
4. Official US denouncement should focus more on continued Chinese support for North Korea.
5. The US response could involve conventionally armed multi-warhead US ballistic missiles deployed in the United States or in the region in attack and ballistic missile submarines. Because of China's weak ballistic missile defense capabilities, Beijing would face an enormous cost in dealing with the new risk to its leadership and strategic structure posed by these US warheads.
John Anthony Walker, Jr. (July 28, 1937 ? August 28, 2014) was a United States Navy Chief Warrant Officer and communications specialist convicted of spying for the Soviet Union from 1968 to 1985.
When Walker began spying, he worked as a key supervisor in the communications center for the U.S. Atlantic Fleet's submarine force, and he would have had knowledge of top secret technologies, such as the SOSUS underwater surveillance system which tracks submarine traffic via a network of submerged hydrophones. It was through Walker that the Soviets became aware that the U.S. Navy was able to track the location of Soviet submarines by the cavitation produced by their propellers. After this, the propellers on the Soviet submarines were improved to reduce cavitation.
The Toshiba-Kongsberg scandal was disclosed in this activity in 1987. It is also alleged that Walker's actions precipitated the seizure of the USS Pueblo. CIA historian H. Keith Melton states on the show ''Top Secrets of the CIA'' which aired on the Military Channel, among other occasions, at 0400CST, February 5, 2013:
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has an unspecified medical problem, state media report, after he failed to appear at a key political event. A report on state television said on Thursday that Mr Kim, 31, was in an "uncomfortable physical condition" but gave no details. Earlier, the leader was absent from a session of the Supreme People's Assembly - North Korea's legislature.Mr Kim has not been seen in public for more than three weeks. His non-appearance at the SPA - to which he was elected in March with 100% of the vote - on Thursday prompted renewed speculation about the leader's whereabouts. The report on state-run Central Television later in the day showed footage of the leader limping during one of his regular inspection tours back in July.
Overweight
Previous appearances, the usual diet of factory and military unit inspections, show a clearly overweight Mr Kim walking with a limp and wearing generously cut trousers, possibly to disguise his walking difficulties. South Korean newspaper Joongang Daily supports the leg injury theory, and suggests that his disappearance may be due to an injury picked up during some sort of sporting activity.
An anonymous source - said to be "familiar with North Korea affairs" - quoted by the South Korean news agency Yonhap, said he understood Mr Kim was "suffering from gout, along with hyperuricemia, hyperlipidemia, obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure".
The agency said some people attribute the deterioration in Mr Kim's health to frequent drinking and overeating.
But its source said gout runs in Mr Kim's family, with his grandfather Kim II-sung, his father Kim Jong-il and his elder brother Kim Jong-nam all suffering from the disease.
At an event to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Sunday, Mr Gorbachev said the West had ''succumbed to triumphalism''.
He expressed alarm about recent Middle Eastern and European conflicts.
Tensions have been raised between the West and Russia over Ukraine, which was part of the Soviet Union.
More than 4,000 people have died in fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists, who seized control in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in April.
A fragile ceasefire has been in place since September, but elections in rebel-held elections last weekend have prompted fears of a return to full-scale conflict.
The founder and primary theorist of Marxism, the nineteenth-century German thinker Karl Marx, had an ambivalent and complex attitude to religion, viewing it primarily as ''the opium of the people'' that had been used by the ruling classes to give the working classes false hope for millennia, while at the same time recognizing it as a form of protest by the working classes against their poor economic conditions.
In the Marxist-Leninist interpretation of Marxist theory, developed primarily by Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, religion is seen as retarding human development, and socialist states that follow a Marxist-Leninist variant are inherently atheistic. Due to this, a number of Marxist-Leninst governments in the twentieth century, such as the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, implemented rules introducing state atheism. However, several religious communist groups exist, and Christian communism was important in the early development of communism.
A coalition of security researchers has identified a Chinese cyberespionage group that appears to be the most sophisticated of any publicly known Chinese hacker unit and targets not only U.S. and Western government agencies but also dissidents inside and outside China.
News of the state-sponsored hacker group dubbed Axiom comes a week before Secretary of State John F. Kerry and two weeks before President Obama are due to arrive in Beijing for a series of high-level talks, including on the issue of cybersecurity.
In a report to be issued Tuesday, the researchers said Axiom is going after intelligence benefiting Chinese domestic and international policies ? an across-the-waterfront approach that combines commercial cyberespionage, foreign intelligence and counterintelligence with the monitoring of dissidents.
Axiom's work, the FBI said in an industry alert this month, is more sophisticated than that of Unit 61398, a People's Liberation Army hacker unit that was highlighted in a report last year. Five of the unit's members were indicted this year by a U.S. grand jury. The researchers concur with the FBI's conclusion, noting that, unlike Unit 61398, Axiom is focused on spying on dissidents as well as on industrial espionage and theft of intellectual property.
It has begun to be understood in the United States that the Korean sex-slaves (Comfort Women) during World War II were intentional fabrication. (Sankei Shimbun) Yoshihisa Komori ttp://http://www.sankei.com/world/news/141101/wor1411010013-n1.html Michael Yon, a highly respected and skillful U.S. author. He declares, The claim with the major media of U.S. Europe that ''the Japanese military took a woman systematically, and made a sexual slave'' was a fiction.
Japan: Thank you Kent Gilbert for translating my piece: ttp://https://www.facebook.com/MichaelYonFanPage/posts/10152532482920665 During the war, Korea had a population of about 23 million. Today, Texas has a population of about 26 million. Imagine trying to kidnap 200,000 Texas women. There would be a bloodbath. The Army would lose thousands of soldiers, and thousands of civilians no doubt would have been slaughtered in return.
Michael Yon Online Magazine ttp://https://www.michaelyon-online.com/ Michael Yon, From Wikipedia ttp://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Yon ttp://https://twitter.com/Michael_Yon/status/538212632608919552 Japan?'s Biggest Newspaper Apologizes for ?'Sex Slave?' Stories'' This is amazing: Japan?'s biggest-circulation daily newspaper apologized today for using the term ?''sex slaves?'' in stories about Asian women trafficked to Japanese military brothels before and during World War II. The Yomiuri newspaper said it had found the term and other ?''misleading?'' expressions implying the women had been forced to provide sexual services in 97 articles in its English-language edition between 1992 and 2013. The paper said it would add notes to each of the stories in its database to explain that they were ?''inappropriate.''
It's all a lie, and no matter how much someone hates Japan, it will always be a lie. Please read the IWG report that practically nobody seems to know exists. If you do not have time for the whole report, do a search inside the report for Comfort Women, and carefully read those parts:
Chiang Kai-shek who fled in the face of the enemy had a full responsibility of Nanjing Incident. Former Tokyo Branch Chief of the U.S. newspaper New York Times, Henry Scott Stokes 2014.12.28 (Sankei Shimbun) ttp://http://www.sankei.com/world/news/141228/wor1412280009-n1.html
Stokes, 75, is a former correspondent and Tokyo bureau chief for the New York Times, Financial Times and Times of London.
Why isn't ''Nanjing Massacre'' a fact? In an interview last month, Stokes had said ''ghastly events'' had occurred at Nanking, but that the Japanese were not alone responsible.
Henry Scott Stokes ttp://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Scott_Stokes He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. After graduating, he moved to Japan, where he became a journalist of the Tokyo bureau of The Times. Also around this time, he became close friends with famous Japanese author Yukio Mishima.
Best-Selling Author Feels the Heat in Japan's History Wars, May 11, 2014, TIME ttp://http://time.com/95416/henry-scott-stokes-japan-history-book/ ''The author's opinion is: The so-called 'Nanking Massacre' never took place. The word 'Massacre' is not right to indicate what happened,'' the statement said.
Some North Korean soldiers escaped from their own country, then they burglarized and killed four Chinese habitants. The North Korean soldiers were shot by Chinese constabulary and suffered serious wounds.
The North Korean soldiers broke into Chinese dwellings and shot a man and wife dead, furthermore, soldiers beat some dwellers to death with handguns and robbed them of food and money.
Papers and experts discuss Beijing-Pyongyang ties following reports that a North Korean soldier killed four people in a Chinese border town.
The soldier crossed the border in late December, stealing money and food before killing residents in Helong. According to papers, he was later arrested north of the Tumen River that divides China and North Korea. The Chinese foreign ministry gave no details about the incident, but said it has lodged a protest with North Korea. Most papers in China have carried the news, quoting South Korea's Yonhap News Agency and state-run Xinhua, while appearing to refrain from making any comments about the incident.
We want to discuss about ''war responsibility of the communism''.
''The war responsibility of the communism'' diverges into many branches, but there are three main aspects in the relation with Japan.
1. The Russian aim was to make Japan the communist country, and therefore Russia derived Japan to the Pacific War.
2. Russia let Japan invade and attack to Southeast Asia by Sorge spy ring, and Russia succeeded in the Japan forces weren't able to fight against the Soviet Union, and, in addition, Russia guiding Japan to the war with U.S. and Britain in this way.
3. In Japan-China War, the Mao Zedong let Chinese Nationalist Party (later Taiwan) fight against Japan and exhausted both. That is why the Japan-China War prevented the northing (war with the Soviet Union) of the Japanese military and was meeting a purpose to support the Chinese Communist Party.
The Sankei Shimbun features ''war responsibility of the communism''. The Sankei Shimbun proves that historical view based on The International Military Tribunal for the Far East is a falsehood. We must discuss ''war responsibility of the communism''.
Henry Scott Stokes ttp://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Scott_Stokes a British journalist who has been the Tokyo bureau chief for The Financial Times (1964?67), The Times (1967-1970s) and The New York Times (1978?83).
When I came to Japan for the first time, I thought that the Tokyo trial was right. In addition, I thought Nanjing Massacre to be a fact. However, I understood that Tokyo trial was only revenge of allied powers while I was staying in Japan for a long time. And I understood that there wasn't Nanjing Massacre.
Correspondent Tokyo of Europe and America are inexperienced and don't understand Tokyo trial and Nanjing case well. Though The Rape of Nanking which it wrote of Iris Chang is fiction, even American elites are falling for the fiction with a historical fact. They considered me to be a historical revisionist and denied me.
I want you to know the truth of the history without being deceived in anti-Japan national propaganda. I want Japan to regain a pride.
The people doing a claim same as me are increasing: American writer Michael Yon, Lawer Kent Gilbert
I want Correspondent Tokyo to understand the above.
It is a fiction that comfort women were collected forcibly by the Japanese military. Comfort women were mere prostitutes.
The first half of this book is written in English and is written in Japanese in the latter half. 👀 Rock54: Caution(BBR-MD5:0be15ced7fbdb9fdb4d0ce1929c1b82f)