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...Japanese call "Japan passing." Thirty years ago, Japan was much like the China of today, an up-and-coming global power with an economy that was the envy of the world. Japanese companies such as Sony, Toyota and Honda shoved aside their competition from the West. By the late 1980s, Americans came to see Japan's economic firepower as arguably a bigger threat to U.S. global dominance than the nuclear arsenal of the Soviet Union. Today, however, no one is scared of Japan. Growth has been anemic ever since a property-and-stock-price bubble collapsed in the early 1990s...
...would be shifted off the island entirely, and since taking office he has effectively shelved the 2006 accord and reopened negotiations with the U.S. After months of waffling and breaking self-imposed deadlines, it's not clear exactly what Hatoyama will propose to Washington, but he told reporters in late March, "I personally should like to consider a path to relocate the air station outside Okinawa...
...single working health program is hardly a foundation for a nation. But however dim the prospects of an independent South Sudan, any alternative is hard to contemplate. It was war that shattered the south. Denying it independence, especially at this late stage, would mean more fighting. Announcing his new Sudan strategy, Obama said: "It will not be easy and there are no simple answers to the extraordinary challenges that confront this part of the world." War used to be Khartoum's answer to many of Sudan's challenges. That things are becoming more complicated is a reason for hope...
...late, Facebook has become more of a tool for mass publicity than for personal expression and social interaction...
This follows a similar incident last weekend, when a fire extinguisher in Quincy was discharged late on a weekend night...