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Japan's lost decade is stretching into decades. It has been almost 20 years since the bursting of a mammoth property and stock bubble plunged the country into an economic deep freeze. Japan's leaders have been wandering in the wilderness ever since, unable to find a formula for growth to replace the model that was found wanting years ago. (See the new activism of Japan's youth...
...there's no escaping the fact that their day jobs were never this straight-up. Like a well-deserved summer break, the album sees them do what they do best, showcasing screeching vocals and guitar against the unobtrusive, workmanlike backing of a rhythm section of keyboards, bass and drums. Almost all experimental fat is trimmed...
...said Chinese Studies Professor William C. Kirby. “Quite by accident,” Szonyi became interested in the Quemoy archipelago, which was a point of conflict between the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan during the Cold War. This confrontation almost led the United States to use nuclear force against China on two separate occasions. Szonyi is currently working on a book that compares villagers’ perspectives in Quemoy with villagers in mainland China who live in the area across from the islands. His most recent trip to China yielded interviews with villagers...
...themselves. Rather, like PEDs, they were once-exotic, unregulated tools that allowed really smart people to make a ton of money and marginally smart people to come along for the ride, eventually becoming common and insidiously far-reaching. And like steroids, the financial tools of the current era were almost all condoned by the relevant governing bodies. Similar, too, is the extent to which the central figures in the drama and the supposed powers-that-be profess total ignorance as the bubble bursts. Ortiz’s statement echoes the defenses put forth by financial executives and regulators hiding behind...
...electorate is expected to call for a shift in direction - and also to say that they have a choice in which party leads their country. "This is the most important election since 1955," says Gerald Curtis, a Japanese politics expert who teaches at Columbia University. "The DPJ will almost certainly win the majority - without a coalition partner. This is a huge, huge change." (Read "The New Activism of Japan's Youth...