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...translator. “They had to live with sorrow. How much I missed my country I could not explain.” Kang was one of 200,000 Korean and Chinese women who were forced to live at “comfort stations” throughout imperial Japan as “comfort women”—essentially sex slaves. Three quarters of these women did not survive the war. “This is the most stark example of institutionalized rape,” said Law School lecturer Diane L. Rosenfeld, who introduced Kang?...
...President Bush’s inaugural address of 2005, in which he called for an international spread of democracy, especially in the Middle East. Traub examines not only how the US tried to create democracies in foreign countries, but why they did not always succeed. While both Germany and Japan, where the populations desired democratic systems, emerged as successful democracies after World War II, attempts to institute democracy in places like Russia and Haiti have failed. Because of corruption in their governments and our lack of commitment to attitude adjustment, both countries have seen democracy devolve into more authoritarian regimes...
...Large stores don't have any bananas from noon, and even Ito Yokado (a major supermarket chain) runs out of them after 3 p.m.," says Tomoyuki Horiuchi, sales representative of Tokyo Seika Boeki Co., Ltd., fruit and vegetables wholesale company. Hiromi Ohtaki of Dole Japan, a leading banana importer, sees the boom in sales as largely due to Morning Banana Diet - bananas don't normally sell well during summer, and this year's summer has been especially hot. Still, over the past 4 months, demand has driven Dole Japan to increase its banana imports by upward of 25%, and even...
...meet this challenge, the U.S., or any other country that wants to remain in the game, can't afford to repeat past mistakes. And the worst mistake of all is complacency--to dismiss the challengers as a nuisance, as the U.S. did Japan in the 1960s, rather than view them as serious competition. You can see the results of complacency when you look at the Big Three U.S. automakers...
...United States 1 2 Switzerland 2 3 Denmark 3 4 Sweden 4 5 Singapore 7 6 Finland 6 7 Germany 5 8 Netherlands 10 9 Japan 8 10 Canada 13 11 Hong Kong SAR 12 12 United Kingdom 9 13 Korea, Republic of 11 14 Austria 15 15 Norway 16 16 France 18 17 Taiwan, China 14 18 Australia 19 19 Belgium 20 20 Iceland 23 21 Malaysia 21 22 Ireland 22 23 Israel 17 24 New Zealand 24 25 Luxembourg 25 26 Qatar 31 27 Saudi Arabia 35 28 Chile 26 29 Spain 29 30 China 34 31 United...