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The article deals with solution of a longstanding problem of compensation payment to former Kwantung Army military servants for working as war prisoners in Soviet and Mongol camps. This problem has got over its social and national framework long ago, and has acquired an international legal character having become one of the most painful issues in Japan–Russia relations. By adoption of the compensation payment bill, another important and delicate issue in Russia–Japan relations is removed from the agenda, which has for many years been hindering the development of bilateral public dialogue in a good-neighborly way and mutual understanding.

Japanese big business's subsidies are a substantial and a steadily growing source of financing Japanese culture. Culture has become a kind of shop-window in which big capital demonstrates its concern for national artistic and intellectual values. The essay inquires what impels big business to focus so much on culture and explores the role of corporations as patrons of art. (DÜI-Sen)