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...also been the method of choice in his push for health-care reform. In just the past two months, he has held six health-care town halls and a prime-time news conference. But public support for his plans has been declining throughout the summer. So the answer, he believes, is one more speech, Wednesday night in front of a joint session of Congress. (See 10 players in health-care reform...
...reductions of an FTA signed in 2004 into full effect by 2010. More deals are likely. Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has made his policy priority reaching a comprehensive economic framework with China that would reduce tariffs on Taiwan goods entering the Chinese market. Yukio Hatoyama, Japan's presumptive Prime Minister, has even proposed the creation of a common Asian currency...
After last week's momentous Japanese election, both American and Japanese commentators picked up a comment by Prime-Minister-in-waiting Yukio Hatoyama that there needed to be more "balance" in the U.S.-Japan relationship, read an article in which Hatoyama had been critical of the U.S., and wondered if the solidity of the long alliance between Japan and the US was about to go soggy. Then Hatoyama called President Barack Obama and told him that of course - of course! - the alliance was the bedrock of Japanese foreign policy, and everyone relaxed. Picking on the U.S., it seemed, was just...
This is heady stuff. (Imagine a putative British prime minister talking openly about American decline and looking forward to Russia's membership in the EU.) It is all enough to make one wonder how well-founded the U.S.-Japan relationship really is, and how resilient to a changing global environment it is likely...
...declined in the last decade; there are now fewer Japanese students in the U.S. than Chinese or Indian ones. How Japanese is Japan? Well, consider this datum: Junichiro Koizumi, who led Japan from 2001 to 2006, and who in terms of economic-policy terms was the most "American" Prime Minister Japan has ever had, routinely paid his respects at the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo, which memorializes those who died in war - including, inconveniently, a number of convicted war criminals from World War II. (Don't get me started on the revisionist history of the run-up to World...