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Cooking The Books

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A Guide To The Different National Cuisines
Japanese – Simple materials used with elegance; the emphasis is on presentation and visual effect…

Articles Politics

After The Quake – Too Much Love

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Disaster reveals national character in the starkest possible way. Japan’s response to the unprecedented triple blow of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown has demonstrated both its strengths and weaknesses – to the world and perhaps to the Japanese themselves.

Articles Finance

Hubble, Bubble, Emerging Trouble

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Emerging markets used to be known as markets you couldn’t emerge from in an emergency. History is littered with examples of financial disasters in young fast-growing countries, from the Argentinian default of the 1890s to the Asian crisis of the mid-1990s.