Japanese commentator says Maduro may have been taken with Russia’s blessing

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Takeo Harada

PanOrient News

(Tokyo- Tuesday January 6, 2026) A prominent Japanese commentator has expressed the view that the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by the United States constitutes a form of "negotiated exile," with Russia being a party to this arrangement.

Takeo Harada, the head of the Institute for International Strategy and Information Analysis, believes that the kidnapping was “substantively settled in advance” and that it may hold ramifications for the critical i...

A Story With a Happy Ending

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Akira Yoshino

By Roger Schreffler
Special to PanOrient News

Providence, RI- (USA) Nine years ago, I met a Japanese research executive who, I learned during our meeting, invented how to manufacture lithium-ion batteries. His name: Akira Yoshino.

On Oct. 9, Yoshino and two other battery industry titans were awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

By his own admission, Yoshino never envisioned a world in which we depended on notebook computers and cell phones. Electric cars were completely out of the q...

Japan to the World: We've Got Our Own Murderous Nutters, Too

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Satoshi Uematsu

By Fred Varcoe

Tokyo- (Pan-Orient News) Did Tokyo’s militaristic police force expect a young man to break into a care facility and murder 19 people? How could they, you ask? It was another act of random violence.

Except it wasn’t.

Satoshi Uematsu, the man who has admitted to the attack in Sagamihara west of Tokyo telegraphed his intentions in a letter to the speaker of the Japanese Diet’s Lower House in February.

“I can wipe out a total of 470 individuals,” Uematsu wrote i...

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