links for 2007-11-14

via Japan Probe

Style matters as much as substance; the US should be trying to coax Japan back to the table, not bludgeon it over the head until it concedes.

米国務省のケーシー副報道官は１３日の記者会見で、北朝鮮に対するテロ支援国家指定の解除について「拉致問題は必ずしも具体的に関連づけられているわけではない」と述べた。

And yet, as the Diet returns to business following the chaotic, unscheduled recess following the resignation of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his replacement by Yasuo Fukuda, Mr Ozawa’s victory may prove to be a poisoned chalice for both him and

China, infuriated at Taiwan’s repeated bids to join the United Nations, sends back all mail arriving from the self-ruled island stamped with a U.N. slogan postmark, a government official said on Wednesday.

Danwei正在开展一个互联网使用习惯的中文问卷调查。该调查一共十个问题，约需要五分钟左右。点击这里参加。

The government is to introduce a new policy to help tap the country’s huge reserves of coal bed methane (CBM).

The arms sales have “rudely interfered in China’s internal affairs, endangered Chinese national security and peaceful unification, and disturbed the improvement and development of China-US relations,” said the spokesman

A former Chinese diplomat who served in Japan until 2001 was sentenced to death in China on charges he provided military information to a Japanese national, the Sankei newspaper reported from Beijing.