Manikganj District Awami League organizes a human chain in front of Manikganj Press Club premises on Tuesday in protest of the nationwide series bomb arrack on 17 August 2005.

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Japan’s sensitive military normalisation

Jamie Metzl :Soon after the Islamic State’s brutal murder in January of the Japanese hostages Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for the country’s “biggest reform” of its military posture since the end of World War II. Abe wants Japan to become a “normal” country again, with the capacity to defend its interests and citizens wherever they are threatened. But how should his government go about it? Even for a Japanese public that still generally supports...

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