Just days after Tokyo suggested a compromise that would split the operations of a military between two Japanese islands, Japanese foreign minister Katsuya Okada made a trip to Washington. Jeff Kingston, who teaches modern Japanese history at the Tokyo branch of Temple University, says the new proposals will not play well in Washington, and could fail. "They want to be able to lay this off on U.S. pressure," said Kingston.  "We did our best, we tried but ultimately we failed because the U.S. would not concede."

Research from Temple University’s Department of Criminal Justice was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s blog Percolator. Temple’s study, conducted in collaboration with the Philadelphia Police Department, showed that foot patrols reduced violent crime by 22 percent in some of the city’s most dangerous locations. According to researchers, even after accounting for displacement, there were 50 fewer violent crimes last summer in Philadelphia than there would have been without the foot patrols.