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...most of the past 20 years, Japan has been in a state of political and economic paralysis. Ever since its property-and-stock-price bubble collapsed in the early 1990s, the economy has teetered on the edge of recession, occasionally tumbling into one. With one exception (Junichiro Koizumi), the country has been captained by a series of leaders who seemed content to reluctantly repair the economy so that it doesn't outright sink, but not enough for it to return to the high-flying days of yesteryear. What I find most baffling about Japan is how a nation...
...placing much of his writing in the past, and through the adroit subtlety of his magic-realist style, Mo Yan avoids stirring up the animosity of the country's ever vigilant censors any more than he needs to. Take his latest novel. With China's highly controversial one-child population-control policy as its topic, Frog traces the life of a midwife who witnesses forced late-term abortions, forced sterilization and other horrors, and it does so whimsically - in the form of four letters and a play. The midwife's struggle to reconcile her conflicting loyalties to party, family...
...Western hobbyhorse. These are universal values derived from the ancient wisdom of Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews and Christians, and are based on the lessons from our own painful history. No sustainable economic order can disregard these basic values, and the citizens of Asia and Europe will demand them ever more clearly and ever more urgently...
Hiltrud Schober, Pforzheim, Germany I agree with you on many points, especially the bureaucracy and the lack of efficiency in the E.U. Nobody would ever deny these shortcomings. Yet, I must firmly reject your suggestion that Europe should work harder to ease tensions in its sphere of interest, for instance in Bosnia, or reach out to the countries of North Africa, or cooperate with Turkey. Why don't you admit that it is the strategic interest of the U.S. to want other nations to be present in areas where the U.S. is not welcome...
...don’t want the stars to twinkle—we want them to stare at us straight without ever winking,” she explained...