Word: japanism
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...going to have to display very sophisticated diplomacy in Asia over the next 20 years, as it eases China's rise while helping to ensure that democratic allies like Japan do not feel threatened by it. To show how important the alliance with Japan used to be considered, the U.S. for many years appointed seasoned politicians to the U.S. embassy in Japan. That pattern has been broken recently, and this year Obama appointed John Roos, a Democratic fundraiser from Los Angeles, to Tokyo. Roos may turn out to be an excellent envoy. But he will have his work...
...TIME's covers about Japan...
...Japan alliance, remember, did not come into being because the two countries decided they loved each other. It did so because one defeated the other in war, occupied it, then wrote and imposed a new constitutional settlement upon it. Japan's acceptance of the post-1945 settlement had much to do with a naked assessment by Japanese leaders of their interests, rather than a sudden passion for all things American. In truth, it is hard to think of any industrial society that in its essentials is less like the U.S. than Japan. Yes, Japan plays baseball. But Japan...
...look at things from the U.S. perspective. For many years, there has been a layer of academics, policymakers and politicians in the U.S. who have devoted their professional lives to the relationship with Japan. And Americans enjoy Japanese cars and consumer electronics. At the same time, anyone who remembers the depth of anti-Japanese feeling over trade issues in the 1980s knows that familiarity with Japanese goods does not translate into popular support for Japanese interests...
...Brussels No Fishing The European Commission is backing a proposal to ban the international sale of Atlantic bluefin tuna, a Mediterranean species depleted by decades of overfishing. An estimated 90% of Europe's bluefin tuna is exported to Japan, where voracious sushi consumption has driven the fish's population to dangerously low levels. The European Union is expected to formally support the measure this month...