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...lags far behind that of its neighbor China and bodes ill for its long-term development. New Delhi plans to pump $38 billion into the education sector over the next five years, but the government has much to deliver as it tries to reconcile India's vast social inequities. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, of modest origins himself, knows the struggle is worth it: "I am what I am because of education...
...1950s Japan, during the years after the country's devastating defeat in World War II, Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama believed his island nation should not become too subservient to the U.S. To make his point, he flew to Moscow to normalize relations with the Soviet Union. It was a bold stand to take at the opening of the Cold War - and one that ultimately failed. Despite Hatoyama's views, Japan locked itself firmly into the U.S. orbit, becoming America's key Asian ally...
...modern Japan, Yukio Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections last year, tossing out the staunchly pro-U.S. Liberal Democrats, who had reigned almost interrupted since 1955. Hatoyama, 63, with an engineering Ph.D. from Stanford University, followed his granddaddy into the Prime Minister's post and immediately set about changing Japan's economy, government - and relationship with the U.S. "It was always in response to what the U.S. had to say that Japan followed," Hatoyama told TIME in an exclusive interview in his Tokyo office. "I believe we should say to each...
...trade, but in the past decade the two nations seemed to become closer than ever. Japan backed America's antiterror campaign, for example, by marshaling refueling missions in the Indian Ocean to support U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Japan was looking more American at home as well. Under Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006, the government adopted several free-market reforms to try to restore growth to the perpetually sluggish economy...
...according to the report, the Musharraf government, though "fully aware and tracking" such threats, did little more than pass them on "to her and to provincial authorities, and were not proactive in neutralizing them." The Musharraf government also failed to provide Bhutto the security it granted two other former Prime Ministers from Musharraf's party...