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Japan-India space alliance raises eyebrows
ONE PLANK of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s foreign policy was to forge closer ties with regional free market democracies, including Australia and India. While there is nothing inherently unusual...
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Japan missing the bus on expanding ties with India
SOME SCOFFED at the time, but former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s plan to develop and strengthen ties between India and Japan was a capital idea on several levels. It wasn’t that the scoffers frowned on...
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Will China buy Japan Inc.?
GOT THE BLUES after all the gloom and doom about the economy in some recent posts? What’s the solution when the news on the financial pages seems so bleak? Comic relief! When the shtick is about Japan,...
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Coming attractions
The build-up of Chinese military capabilities is a real threat. - Maehara Seiji, the new Foreign Minister of Japan, speaking in the United States in 2005 In ancient Chinese history, the First Emperor...
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Letter bombs (11): Boomerangs
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness....
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Japan to sign free trade pact – with India
WHILE people are noogling on the question of whether those insular Japanese will ever be able to get over themselves long enough to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade discussions, the...
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Instructions
THE United States is displeased with Japanese behavior in financial markets, reports Reuters: The report…criticiz(ed) Tokyo for its solo yen-selling interventions in August and October that followed a...
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Ichigen koji (88)
一言居士 - A person who has something to say about everything Japan and India – as energy-poor countries heavily reliant on oil imports from the Gulf – are seriously concerned by mercantilist efforts to...
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