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Japan Archive

  • Japanese PM Challenged From Within

    Japanese PM Challenged From Within

    Prime Minister Naoto Kan, barely two months in office, will face a challenge from within his own party this fall.
  • Tax Relief for Japanese Business

    Tax Relief for Japanese Business

    The Japanese Government, headed, since Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigned earlier this month, by former finance minister Naoto Kan, announced on...
  • Japan’s Prime Minister Resigns

    Japan’s Prime Minister Resigns

    Barely nine months in power, Japan’s prime minister Yukio Hatoyama announced his resignation today. Hatoyama led Japan’s main opposition party, the...
  • The Toyota Recall

    The Toyota Recall

    The world’s largest automaker recalls millions of vehicles and proves that corporate responsibility needs no bureaucrats or anti-business statues.
  • Economic Freedom in 2010

    Economic Freedom in 2010

    As the global recession took hold of the world last year, free market capitalism increasingly came under persecution. Much of the...
  • Tension? What Tension?

    Tension? What Tension?

    “Asia has emerged as a diplomatic hornet’s nest,” according to The New York Times, “even beyond the perennial threat of North...
  • Japan’s New Finance Minister

    Japan’s New Finance Minister

    While Japan continues to linger in economic trouble with little hope for imminent recovery, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama forced his 77-year-old...
  • Japan Must Get the F-35

    Japan Must Get the F-35

    Not too long ago, Richard D. Fisher Jr. writing for The Washington Times, argued in favor of letting Japan in on...
  • Japan Goes All In

    Japan Goes All In

    Last time we reported on Japan’s lingering in economic trouble, we identified decades of government interference as the cause of much...