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  • Kiyosu Castle
    November 11th, 2009By Iain Maloney
    While the Sixties bring to mind images of hippies, Woodstock, students on the street, The Beatles on a rooftop and Jimi’s guitar on fire, the decade wasn’t all colour and light. In Japan, from the late Fifties through the Sixties, while campuses became battlegrounds, a government project to rebuild national pride was underway. Only four » Continue Reading
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  • The Great Debate – Part II
    October 26th, 2009By Frederick Delisle
    Less than a month ago I wrote to you about the great debate going on in Japan and by the way America about the presence of American Military in Japan 60 years after the war and who is paying the bills. It seems that all the politicians in the World have picked up on this » Continue Reading
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  • Stimulus Checks for Japan’s Troubled Economy
    May 8th, 2009By Jamie Rockers
    Recently, we’ve been overwhelmed with news about the bad condition of economies all over the world. “Because of the economy”, has become an answer (or excuse) for everything. New words have even been created, like “recessionista“, which means someone who lives frugally as possible in a recession. Most countries, however, » Continue Reading
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  • North Korean Launch Has Many Faces
    April 7th, 2009By drifter
    We may never know for sure if Sunday’s launch was a Taepodong-2 missile, as the media prefers to report, or if in fact it was just a satellite as North Korea claims.  Regardless, we can be sure that the fear such a threat creates will be trumped up by the US, » Continue Reading
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