Japan Isn’t Doing That Bad
Japan isn’t doing so bad economically but who will tell the Japanese?
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Japanese Prime Minister 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
A corporate tax cut would improve Japan’s competitiveness among industrialized nations.
Japan’s Prime Minister Resigns
After just nine months in power, Japan’s prime minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns.
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
Free markets are in retreat.
Tension? What Tension?
Discord between China and the United States should be overstated. Disputes can be resolved.
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 finance minister Hirohisa Fujii to resign last week and had him replaced with Naoto Kan, a former civic campaigner against government corruption with virtually no experience in economics. Behind the screens Ichirō Ozawa, […]
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 the groundbreaking F-22 fighter aircraft. Current American law prohibits Lockheed-Martin from selling the plane overseas. According to Fisher there were two good reasons for letting Japan have the Raptor. “First,” he wrote, “the F-22 […]
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 of the country’s modern-day hardship. With the Democratic Party in power after years of Liberal Democratic leadership, there was reason to hope that the former would undo part of the Keynesian measures the latter […]
Japan Lingering in Economic Trouble
Japan succumbed to recession after years of high public spending and stagnation.
The Asian Naval Race
Military expansion in East Asia has as much to do with projecting power as it does with prestige.
