House panel calls for Japan sex slave apology

Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:30PM EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A resolution calling on Japan to officially apologize for pressing thousands of women into sexual servitude in World War Two won strong approval on Tuesday from a U.S. congressional committee. [Read More!]

New poll finds that young Americans are leaning left

By Adam Nagourney and Megan Thee
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Young Americans are more likely than the general public to favor a government-run universal health care insurance system, an open-door policy on immigration and the legalization of gay marriage, according to a New York Times/CBS News/MTV poll. The poll also found that they are more likely to say the war in Iraq is heading to a successful conclusion. [Read More!]

Global poll shows wide distrust of U.S.

By MEG BORTIN

A new Pew survey indicates that majorities in many countries, including close U.S. allies, reject America's foreign policy and its brand of democracy. [Read More!]

Friday, Jun. 22, 2007
Communism Is Alive and Well and Living in Japan
By Bryan Walsh

Cute as Hello Kitty, 19-year-old Michiko Suzuki looks like any of the thousands of teens haunting the street fashion stores of Tokyo's youthful Harajuku district. But when the Wako University student takes time off from study sessions dissecting Marx to hit the street, it's usually in order to distribute political literature. To her classmates, the party may be something to which you bring the karaoke machine, but Suzuki knows it's really the revolutionary vanguard of class struggle. That's because Suzuki is a teenage communist. [Read More!]

定義集　大江健三郎

アマチュア知識人の大切さ　【小説家が大学で学びえたこと】

　ロシア・ポーランド文学の研究で世界的な友人から、東大教養学部の学生の、文学部へ進学する数がジリ貧なので、どのような志望を抱いてフランス文学科に入ったか話してもらいたい、と依頼がありました。

　私は、高校二年で読んだ本の著者の教室へ行こう、と希望しただけなので、強いていえば「知識人になるために」だった、という講演をしたのですが（記録は『すばる』八月号）、寄せられた質問に答える時間をなくしました。 [Read More!]