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Is ‘proactive peace’ just a new term for war?

War and peace: A Japanese and an Indian student at an international school in Tokyo walk past a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, who advocated nonviolent protest. Can those who haven't felt war follow his path? | AP

War and peace: A Japanese and an Indian student at an international school in Tokyo walk past a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, who advocated nonviolent protest. Can those who haven't felt war follow his path? | AP

By Michael Hoffman
Special To The Japan Times

May 30, 2015

“Have you ever heard the roar of a jet fighter?”

Kiyokatsu Kikuchi has. “No words can describe it. When they’re flying directly over my house it feels like my head’s being split open.”

For 40 years this has been going on. Kikuchi, 67, lives near the U.S. naval base in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was moved at last to vent his rage in a letter to the Asahi Shimbun.

Amid the heat and humidity in Japan, a good night’s sleep is growing increasingly elusive without the heavy use of air conditioning.

Summer has arrived in Japan and so have hot sleepless nights

By Tomoko Otake

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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