By people I know

Tobias Harris writes movingly of last night's speech by Lester Tenney, the last Commander of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor.

Kato Kazuyo of Armitage International and, yes, the daughter of the recently retired Ambassador to the United States of the same name, writes what is probably the best review so far of Hu Jintao's trip to Japan.

Nice it is to know people in the know.