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Is the world turning Japanese? Even as Japan's domestic economy slips into recession and its politicians dither endlessly, the country's overseas influence is reaching new heights. Limited by a postwar constitution from developing military power, Japan's international clout relies on soft power, the term coined by Harvard...
The Japan Paradigm As a kid growing up on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, Alimansyar knew Japan stood for one thing: really hip stuff. His parents' generation might have looked askance at the historic aggressor, given its wartime record in East Asia. But for Alimansyar and other younger Indonesians, Japan...
Former Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale called the 2008 election a historic occasion and expressed wonder at the electoral coalition behind Barack Obama during a speech hosted yesterday by the Harvard Democrats. “It was the young America, the new America, that voted for Obama,�...
On Wednesday November 4, 2008, Barack H. Obama was elected President of the United States, making him the first African-American to hold our nation’s highest post. A black man had achieved what months ago was considered impossible, and he would go down in history for doing...
See pictures from the historic Election Day.