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According to a 2015 survey by Pew Research Center, only 14% of Japanese believe the atomic bombings were justified, against 56% of Americans.
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Yet successful conservative politicians are always empiricists, not idealists…
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Koizumi enacted a Japanese equivalent of the “Willy Brandt moment” at the Marco Polo bridge
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76% of Japanese and 66% of Americans believe that Japan does not need to apologize any further for its actions.
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Most important of all for psychological well-being and social tranquility, the Japanese economy is running at full employment.
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British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm riposted “We cannot invent our facts. Either Elvis Presley is dead or he isn’t.”
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This goes a long way to explaining the remarkable fall in the suicide rate over the past several years, which has reversed nearly all of the sharp increase of the late 1990s.
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Japan has become the region’s low cost producer in a range of industries, from shipbuilding to software engineering….
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Companies will lobby for less restrictions on immigrants. All such changes will work to dilute the corporate monoculture.
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They contribute to the profits of high-end stores in the Ginza, gadget shops in Akihabara and even the Yoshiwara, Tokyo’s fabled red-light district