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You only get populism when liberalism has failed. That primarily means economic failure, but there are cultural and social fissures that matter too.
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The UK and France added a few extra percent to their GDPs by including drug-dealing, prostitution and smuggling.
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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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Asakusa, a downtown area fast becoming Tokyo’s new hipster central, is now a destination for foreign backpackers.
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The rhetoric from Congress would be blood-curdling. There might even be a repeat of the quotas and sanctions imposed on Japan in the 1980s.
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Since Japan’s problem is almost the mirror image of the turmoil buffeting emerging markets, there would be little downside in putting the pedal to the metal.
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If Abenomics proves to be a successful electoral strategy, conservative politicians elsewhere are likely to take note and follow suit
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Yet surely it is much too early for the soil to be falling over the head of Abenomics.
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At the age of fifteen he was living with a geisha, and in his thirties he led a group of hard-drinking, brawling Japanese miners to the high Andes…
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The LDP, like the Rolling Stones, is a dinosaur outfit. Both lack the energy levels of their nineteen sixties heyday , but still manage to wipe the floor…