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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Noriko Hama</title>
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		<title>Abe&#8217;s 15-month reversal budget fudges cost of swapping people and butter for concrete and guns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noriko Hama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government of Shinzo Abe has just unveiled its budget for fiscal 2013 starting in April. Abe’s stated intention was to “radically reset” spending priorities.]]></description>
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		<title>Rip van Winkle returns to government with trade war on his mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noriko Hama</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan is about to get a new government and it&#8217;s just like old times. Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe, who is set to become prime minister, again sounds as if he has been spending his time out of office back in the 1960s. Growth is everything and growth shall be achieved through big spending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No nation can afford to act like an island in Asia&#8217;s globalized age</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noriko Hama</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan is having trouble keeping up a cordial relationship with its next door neighbors. Long dormant territorial disputes have suddenly come to the fore. Who owns what from when and why? Who can claim legal ownership? Who is in actual control? Arcane issues have suddenly become hot topics of the moment between Japan and China [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A pair in dire need of a reality check</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noriko Hama</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan is hosting an annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank for the first time since 1964. A lot has happened in the intervening very nearly half a century &#8212; to both Japan and the IMF. Yet both Japan and the IMF do not quite seem to realize just how much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atomic exit deserves warm welcome in land of nuclear apprentices</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of May 6, Japan became a nuclear power-free zone. All of the nuclear plants throughout the country are offline, either as a result of last year&#8217;s Fukushima disaster or routine maintenance. The government and electric power companies are hoping to see them back in action soon, but public sentiment remains strongly skeptical. That sentiment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumption tax fiasco magnified by absence of financial fundamentals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To paraphrase Winston Churchill&#8217;s all too famous words at the time of the Battle of Britain: &#8220;Never in the field of economic policy has so little been achieved by so many hours wasted by so many lawmakers.&#8221; The outcome of the debate over Japan&#8217;s consumption tax would surely extract a quote to surpass all Churchillian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diversity, inclusiveness should be the key words for Japan after March 11</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[March will forever be a month to remember in Japan. Already a year has gone by since that awful 11th of March when the world erupted in all sorts of ways around us. Given all the terrible things that happened then and continue to haunt us now, what are the values that we need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiscally hobbled Japan nears multiple-currency era: Is yen&#8217;s demise nigh?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noriko Hama</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For a single-currency area to be sustainable, one of two conditions needs to be met. One, sufficient economic convergence throughout the area in question. Two, a transfer mechanism to offset whatever economic divergences exist in the area. The eurozone currently meets neither of these conditions. Thus the eurozone&#8217;s days look numbered. Couldn&#8217;t be simpler. End [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brace for the year of the dragon, when all shall be revealed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Sino-Japanese cycle of annual zodiac signs, the year 2012 will be the year of the dragon. 2011 was the year of the hare. How quickly it is jumping away. The dragon is the only fictitious character in the lineup of twelve creatures that make up the cycle. Its presence is a must in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Japanization&#8217; needn&#8217;t be  an economic curse word</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noriko Hama</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody walks in fear of Japanization these days. Everybody wants to avoid their version of the lost decade. They don&#8217;t want to see their economies become locked into a never-ending spiral of deflation, Japanese-style. What will they do, they ask themselves, if their politicians become as impotent as their Japanese counterparts? Europeans dread it. Americans [...]]]></description>
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