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Thursday, January 18, 2007

New Stuff at Japan Focus

Japan Focus has a couple interesting articles this week. I've snipped their descriptions as the titles are a good guide. One thing for the strategists out there -- China's rise is also making India more prominent in the minds of those looking for a counterweight, as one article shows.

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New online content at Japan Focus

From: mark selden

Colleagues,

The following new articles were posted at Japan Focus on January 15, 2007:

Scott North & Charles Weathers, The End of Overtime Pay: More Production or Just More Work for Japan's White Collar Workers?

Vivek Pinto, A Strategic Partnership Between Japan and India?

M K Bhadrakumar, China's Tortuous Middle East Journey: Israel, Iran, and Saudia Arabia

Jack Weatherford, Restoring Order: Conquering Iraq in the 13th and 21st Centuries. Could Genghis Khan teach the US?

Japan Focus is a refereed e-journal and archive on the Asia Pacific.
It offers translations from Japanese and other languages, Japan Focus
originals, and reprints.

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Find these and more than 700 more articles, and consider subscribing
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http://japanfocus.org

mark selden
Cornell University

3 comments:

  1. Michael, do you have any comments on the Rebar scandal and Su Tseng Chang's decision to "not consider lifting the 40% investment cap for now"?

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  2. 'kin right I do! But I had finals all this week, and all the errands and stuff I put off until Friday are going to get done tomorrow....so not until Saturday will regularly scheduled blogging resume.

    Michael

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  3. Commonwealth is a little schizo sometimes: China will beat Taiwan in EVERYTHING. Following article: Taiwan is the BEST PLACE to invest EVER.

    Still, this interview (perhaps because it is an interview), sheds some interesting light in a balanced manner on the general state of Taiwan's financial industry:

    Listening In on the Financial World

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