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Yoshida’s fibs were meat and drink to foreign journalists eager to emphasize the uniqueness of Japan’s depravity….
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Countries do not always act in their own best interests, as historian Barbara Tuchman established in “The March of Folly”
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The woman, Kazuko, is a newly-wed emigrant from Okinawa who soon discovers the power of her sexuality and exploits it to the hilt…
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Herr Schmidt was quite mistaken in his view that Japan is the Billy No Mates of Asia
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A job for anybody who wants one – a phenomenon which must seem like a distant dream to millions of unemployed youngsters in the Eurozone.
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Ishihara’s legacy includes exterminating thirty thousand crows and ordering the removal of the Tsukiji fish-market, much loved by tourists…
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Since Japan’s problem is almost the mirror image of the turmoil buffeting emerging markets, there would be little downside in putting the pedal to the metal.
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Every time the focus is on the events of seventy and eighty years ago, it means a loss for Japan and a win for China
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British prime ministers would invite union leaders and heads of industry to Number 10 Downing Street in order to thrash out wage deals over beer and sandwiches
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A misjudgement by either side could set off a violent chain-reaction embroiling many other powers, Sarajevo 1914-style