Interview: Bernhard Zepter, EU Ambassador to Japan

Since last year (2004), when an additional ten countries joined the European Union, all eyes have been on Europe. The perfect person to ...
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Two-Headed Monster: Beware Japan's new political beast

Japan can now wipe the political dribble from its chin and step into its own freshly pressed and creased pair of democratic long pants. ...
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Book Review: "A Diplomat in Japan" by Sir Ernest Satow

When Edo Japan was forced to open its doors to the outside World in 1854, it set off a train of events that destabilized the feudal orde...
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Book Review: 'Unbeaten Tracks in Japan' by Isabella L. Bird

If, as the British writer L.P. Hartley famously wrote, “the past is a foreign country,” then this paperback reprint of an 1880 travelogu...
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