Innholdsfortegnelse for 10/19/2018 i Newsweek International

IT WAS JUST BEFORE 6 A.M. WHEN POLICE officers raided Daniil Markin’s apartment in Barnaul, a small Russian city some 2,000 miles from Moscow. Markin, a film student who was 18 at the time of the July 2017 raid, had no idea why police had burst into his home. The officers, he says, were in no hurry to explain. Instead, they removed his computers, smartphone and other electronic devices, then drove him to the local branch of the Center for Combating Extremism, a police department within Russia’s powerful Interior Ministry. Officers from the so-called Center E then informed Markin that he was being charged with hate speech against Christians over a handful of images that he had either reposted or saved to his account on VKontakte, Russia’s version of Facebook,…

“With the Walking Bicycle we want to promote a healthy and active lifestyle. Automatic driving solutions and technology are an alternative for us to use less energy. The Walking Bicycle is an alternative to that perspective”Masayuki Katayama, President, Katayama Kogyo Behind all of Japan’s world-leading carmakers are the chukenkigyo – strong medium sized firms that produce and supply them with high-quality components. One of these firms is Katayama Kogyo, which provides automotive parts, and construction machinery and agricultural machinery parts worldwide. The company was established in 1947 and in the U.S. has a production base in Shelbyville, Kentucky, which provides parts to automotive manufacturers in Alabama, Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois. While the majority of the company’s business is through Tier 1 relationships with these manufacturers, it also has established Tier…

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S second visit to the United Nations in September began with a laugh—at his expense—and ended, at least in my experience, with tears. Trump opened his address to the world’s leaders in the same way that he opens many of his campaign-style rallies: by praising his administration for accomplishing “more than almost any administration in the history of [the United States].” The obvious absurdity of this boast left the U.N.’s normally staid representatives giggling incredulously. Having begun on an unintentionally humorous note, the president used the remainder of his address to attack many of the norms and institutions that Americans helped establish to ensure international peace and security after World War II. Pitting a simplistic view of national sovereignty against what he labeled “globalism,” Trump proudly advertised that…

“CAN YOU TURN THE LIGHTS down?” With that request to an engineer, a 24-year-old Prince sat down at a piano in his home studio and, in a single, 34-minute take, delivered potent sketches of songs that would define the golden age of his career. He sang three future classics in embryonic form (including a little over a minute of “Purple Rain”), two covers (one a Joni Mitchell song) and three gems that would never surface in completed form. It was 1983, and after the one-two-three punch of Dirty Mind, Controversy and 1999, Prince was already a singular star, one who held nothing back. “Even when there’s no audience in front of him, he was emoting in a way that many artists save for playing an arena,” says Michael Howe, chief…

The Sabuk Nusantara on October 3, five days after the ferry was hurled onto the land after the one-two punch of a magnitude 7.5 earthquake and a tsunami struck the island of Sulawesi. No passengers were on board the 208-foot vessel—docked before a scheduled trip to its new owners—and all crew survived. The ferry “was like a basketball being bounced,” said second-in-command Jona Johanes, who was turning on the TV in his cabin when the quake hit. A few days later, the death toll was approaching 2,000, with an estimated 5,000 still missing and at least 70,000 homeless.…

“When you talk about mandatory minimum sentencing, you rarely see the people left behind.” CYNTHIA SHANK WAS SURE IT WAS a mistake. It was February 2008, and a judge had just sentenced the 35-year-old to 15 years in prison. As he read the judgment, she could hear two of her three young daughters—one of them 4, the other 2—playing outside the courtroom in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “This is a mistake. Something’s going to change,” she remembers thinking. “I’m not going to be in here for long.” Within months of Shank’s incarceration in a federal prison in Illinois, the realities of mandatory minimum sentencing were painfully clear. Nine years later, she would still be behind bars for a nonviolent drug crime. In 2002, her boyfriend, Alex Humphry, was murdered. When the…

PAUL GRILLI REMEMBERS THE IMPLOSION CLEARLY. It was April 28, 1982, and the Youngstown, Ohio, native stood across from U.S. Steel’s Ohio Works, one of the last massive plants in the city. His father was an unemployed steelworker. The family watched as four blast furnaces collapsed, brought down by dynamite a few years after the facility had been shuttered. It was the symbolic end of an era. A huge U.S. company had been devastated by Japanese competition. The steel, aluminum and auto industries seemed to be dying. “My father, my uncle, my grandfather, they had all lost jobs. They didn’t know what was going to happen,” recalls Grilli. Today, Youngstown is a very different place—downsized, less industrial but not postindustrial. Grilli now delivers aluminum ingots to industrial customers throughout the…

Whip-cracking revelers attend the Deni Ute Muster, a raunchy celebration of, yes, a car: Down Under’s sacred utility vehicle, the Ute. On September 29, nearly 20,000 people attended the weekend bash, featuring performances by country stars like Carrie Underwood, bull-riding, mud-wrestling and, of course, copious amounts of beer. The festival was hatched 20 years ago to attract tourists to the region.…

“Japan Inc. has transformed into a hidden champion and an expert at making complex components and parts. Around 50 percent of all smartphone components are made by Japanese firms” The success story of Japanese manufacturing is a well-documented one. A chief proponent of its post-war economic boom, Japan’s manufacturing industry – propelled by a great tradition for fine craftsmanship (or monozokuri) – usurped the United States in the 1970s and 80s to become the sector’s veritable global kingpin. Japanese corporations such as Sony, Sharp and Panasonic took over the world of consumer products; iconic brands that to this day remain synonymous with the famous ‘Made in Japan’ trademark, and its reputation for high-quality. It is this reputation for almost flawless manufacturing efficiency that changed international business practices and inspired countless…

Tokyo’s futuristic skyline and the Shinkansen bullet train system are amongst the most iconic symbols of Japan, and a testament to the technological prowess and capabilities of the nation’s construction and infrastructure firms. In its heyday the Japanese construction industry was thriv- ing domestically. In 1989, Japan’s construction sector accounted for some 45 trillion yen, or around 15 percent, of the country’s entire GDP. The period that followed the real estate crash, known as the “lost decade,” saw a steady decline in Japan’s construction sector. In 2010, it was worth around 25 tril- lion yen, and while the sector has shown growth up to 2015, rising to 28 trillion yen, it is still far from the dizzying heights of 1989. With construction projects related to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and…

In less than a decade, Janjaweed poachers on horseback reduced Zakouma National Park’s herd from 4,000 to 400. WHEN RIAN AND LORNA LABUSCHAGNE ARRIVED IN CHAD’S Zakouma National Park in early 2011, experts had written off the elephants as doomed. A steep rise in the demand for ivory had led to a drop in elephant populations throughout Africa, including Zakouma, home to one of the largest herds on the continent. In less than a decade, Janjaweed poachers on horseback reduced the park’s herd from 4,000 to 400; it seemed just a matter of time before the rest of the animals were killed too. The Labuschagnes, a South African couple who have worked in conservation their entire lives, had been brought in by African Parks, a nonprofit organization, with the support…