The rise of China as an economic power is fueling emergent nationalism in Japan. "It's about the huge shift of power from Japan toward China over the last 15 years," said Jeff Kingston of Temple University, Japan Campus. "It's about who gets to call the shots in Asia — the U.S. or China, and China is saying it wants a bigger say and the key issue is for the U.S. to decide if it wants to cede more space to them — and history is not littered with good examples of that."

Beverly Coleman, Temple's assistant vice president for community relations and economic development, will receive the Community Forward Award, given to a person outside the Latino community who has assisted the nonprofit Asociacion Puertorriquenos en Marcha (APM) with its mission. Coleman will get the award on Saturday at APM's 40th-anniversary gala dinner and concert at the Liacouras Center (where Gov. Rendell also will be honored).

A survey of the seafloor near BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico has turned up dead and dying coral reefs that were probably damaged by the oil spill. Further study is needed to conclusively link the coral die-off to the spill. "There's a lot of work to be done to see if there's been some sublethal effect on these corals," said Erik Cordes, a marine biologist at Temple who has been studying reefs in the gulf in the aftermath of the spill.