Damn Right I Taped Kerry’s ‘Apartheid’ Talk

Mea Culpa

And if I had to do it all over again, I’d do it in the exact same way.

Published May 2 2014 3:52AM EDT

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Ten years ago, when I was a rookie reporter for the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, I looked up to Joseph Nye as a sacred figure, the preeminent American expert on Japan.

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Damn Right I Taped Kerry’s ‘Apartheid’ Talk

And if I had to do it all over again, I’d do it in the exact same way.

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