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Investment Advisor July 2006 Savita Iyer |
Retirement Planning: Behind the Numbers The debate over whether to further liberalize the investment mandate of public funds is not likely to come to a conclusion anytime in the near future in the U.S. or Japan. But Japan's Social Security overhaul can teach the U.S. a thing or two. |
Chemistry World June 30, 2006 Bea Perks |
Iupac Vice President Resigns in Cash Scandal A Japanese chemist who was to become the first ever female president of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Iupac), and only the second ever president from Japan, has pulled out after admitting that she misused government money. |
Finance & Development June 1, 2006 Citrin & Wolfson |
Japan's BACK! Growth in Japan, the world's second-largest economy, would have knock-on effects throughout Asia and the global economy and contribute to a more balanced pattern of global growth. This would also help to reduce global current account imbalances. |
BusinessWeek April 3, 2006 Rowley & Hall |
Japan: Lawyers Wanted. No, Really Once litigation-averse, the country is rushing to fill a shortage of attorneys. |
National Defense January 2006 Robert H. Williams |
Japan Moving Toward More Active Regional, International Role A resurgent Japan would at first blush sharply alter the balance of power in the Far East, a development that would be welcomed by the United States. |
Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Large Quake, Small Tsunami for Japan A large earthquake several hundred kilometers offshore Japan triggered a tsunami warning and a subsequent small tsunami. Three or four large events have occurred on this subduction fault over the past several centuries, as the Pacific plate slowly presses westward under Japan. |
BusinessWeek November 14, 2005 |
A Hawkish Successor For Koizumi? Already strained Sino-Japanese ties took a turn for the worse after Japan's Oct. 31 Cabinet shake-up. |
BusinessWeek October 3, 2005 |
China And Japan: A Quarrel Over Energy Japan is fretting that China appears to be drilling for oil or natural gas near a disputed border in the East China Sea. |
BusinessWeek September 26, 2005 Ian Rowley |
Rebuilding Japan's Banks Prime Minister Koizumi's finance-sector overhaul is driving Japan's recovery. It has also kept him in power. |
BusinessWeek September 26, 2005 |
A Wide-Open Window In Japan The massive rally in the Nikkei and a steady stream of robust economic data suggest Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's moves to clean up the banking sector, turn off the public works spigot, and hand out Cabinet posts based on merit rather than connections are finally paying off. |
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