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Sound familiar? It could be the plot from any one of innumerable comedies written by innumerable authors on the Continent and in Britain from the time of the Renaissance to beyond the Restoration.
At the western edge of America, where the continent falls into the Pacific as it follows the sun, the coast has always seemed an image of Eden, a garden of earthly delights. "There is an island called California, on the right hand of the Indies, very near the Earthly Paradise...
In spite of the seemingly inexorable European settlement of the Pacific Coast, there are strangers in the Western paradise. Other peoples too have sought the "good country," though instead of crossing the continent, they have crossed an ocean; instead of looking back to Europe, they trace their bloodlines to Asia...
The ties that bind the West Coast to Asia are not merely cultural but also financial. At the news of the earthquake that ravaged the San Francisco Bay area last October, Wall Street barely blinked. But in Tokyo, Manila and Hong Kong, stock markets dipped nervously. The Pacific coastland is...
The weak yen has been a prime culprit in Japan's trouble, raising the threat of inflation and putting upward pressure on interest rates. The yen has sagged largely because of the quickening outflow of Japan's immense cash hoard to other countries, where Japanese investors have found investments more...