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...Japan Paradigm As a kid growing up on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, Alimansyar knew Japan stood for one thing: really hip stuff. His parents' generation might have looked askance at the historic aggressor, given its wartime record in East Asia. But for Alimansyar and other younger Indonesians, Japan represents a nation that transformed itself in record time from vanquished pauper to cutting-edge innovator. Today, Alimansyar teaches Japanese at the University of North Sumatra, and the school's rapidly growing Japanese-language program is filled with 500 students who are often lured by Japanese cars, electronics and anim...
...personnel working for the United Nations, which has increased to nearly 700 today from less than 500 seven years ago. "Among the Japanese public," says co-editor Watanabe, "there's a sense that since we were helped by other countries to rebuild 60 years ago, it's a noble thing for us to do the same...
...family worries about how long he can handle manual labor. So Luo runs her small shop to save money for a life beyond a gray box. "We don't have plans," she says. "We don't know where we will go. Right now the most important thing is money...
...sauce, instant noodles, cooking oil and toothpaste. She and her 28-year-old fiancé had planned to marry this year. Then the earthquake struck, flattening their house and burying their wedding nest egg, which they had just withdrawn from the bank. At the time, money was the last thing on Luo's mind. "I wanted to live," she says, as she stands inside her store wearing a puffy orange jacket to ward off the chill. "No one else in the same building made it out, but somehow I survived." Luo walked five days with an injured foot...
...imagine the New Zealand - U.S. relationship might change under your Prime Ministership? The first thing to note is that the relationship has been steadily improving over the last decade. The Americans, I think, have appreciated a number of things New Zealand has done in recent years, such as our contribution in Afghanistan - we were quite early into Bamiyan province. Secondly, we are showing leadership with Australia in the Pacific, and that's important to America because the U.S. can't cover every base on their own. [U.S. Secretary of State] Condoleezza Rice came over to New Zealand [in July...