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COMMENTARY / World

Jan 15, 2002

Effects of Sept. 11 on marketing policy

By Michael R. Czinkota

WASHINGTON -- The terror of Sept. 11 is a key fissure in American lives. At Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, we investigated the repercussions of the terror on international marketing policy and corporate practices. We found a new era of common sense characterized by five key dimensions.

COMMENTARY

Jan 14, 2002

Tokyo conference to work on reconstructing Afghanistan

By Keizo Nabeshima

The Jan. 21-22 international conference in Tokyo on the reconstruction of Afghanistan will provide an opportunity for the post-Sept. 11 international community to unite in contributing to the war-ravaged country's stability.

COMMENTARY

Jan 14, 2002

Hardly another Argentina

By Hugh Cortazzi

LONDON -- "What is the difference between Japan and Argentina?" Answer: "five years." That was the riddle, or sick joke, said by the Financial Times in London to be circulating in Tokyo over the recent holidays. My immediate reaction was that the idea behind the question was silly and showed ignorance...

COMMENTARY / World

Jan 14, 2002

Seniority vs. meritocracy: a middle way

By George Sioris

CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- Quite often the terms "seniority" and "meritocracy" are used -- or rather "misused" -- antithetically as if they were in a 16th-century arena of charging helmeted knights, where the space occupied by one is totally denied to the other. In such thinking, the former term is usually...

COMMENTARY / World

Jan 14, 2002

Jiang proves to be a masterful statesman

By Frank Ching

HONG KONG -- Jiang Zemin was widely regarded as a lightweight and a transitional figure when he became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 1989, succeeding Zhao Ziyang, who was purged in the wake of the Tiananmen Square uprising. However, he confounded his critics and, four years later,...

COMMENTARY / JAPAN IN THE GLOBAL ERA

Jan 14, 2002

Still hurtling down the nationalist track

By Jean-pierre Lehmann

LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- In early 1997 I was hosting a reception at a Geneva hotel following a workshop on trade issues when a Japanese official took me aside. Looking at me conspiratorially, he whispered, "Professor Lehmann, I have an important question to ask you: How long do you think it will be before...

COMMENTARY

Jan 13, 2002

Overzealous security eroding U.S. liberties

By Doug Bandow

WASHINGTON -- Liberty is threatened not so much by massive destruction as by minor erosion. Like when boarding an airplane in the United States. There should be few safer passengers than a Secret Service agent who guards the president. But not in the case of Walied Shater, who was tossed off of an American...

COMMENTARY / World

Jan 13, 2002

The blackest summer in Sydney's history

By Alan Goodall

SYDNEY -- The pall of eucalyptus-scented smoke that has smothered Australia's largest city since Christmas Day is lifting. More than 11,000 evacuees are returning to the burned-out bush where their homes once stood. The cost of Sydney's worst-ever bush-fire season? Who dares count?

COMMENTARY

Jan 12, 2002

Japan's economic black hole

By Gregory Clark

Realism is finally impinging on the economic debate here. The "structural reform" ideologues may remain blind to the contradiction between urging privatization and liberalization even as they are being forced effectively to nationalize a banking system suffering from past liberalization excesses. But...

COMMENTARY / World

Jan 12, 2002

Indo-Pakistani chances for peace improve

By Gautaman Bhaskaran

It now appears that war between nuclear powers India and Pakistan can be prevented. Islamabad's current crackdown on militant organizations may not have fully satisfied New Delhi, but Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's gesture at the recent conference of the South Asian Association for Regional...

COMMENTARY / World

Jan 11, 2002

Populist politics behind Argentine crisis

By Christopher Lingle

Those who would blame Argentina's economic woes on free-market policies or pegging the peso to the U.S. dollar choose to be willfully blind to reality. Although the most evident and most disastrous results are economic in nature, the bases of the problems are political.

COMMENTARY / World

Jan 10, 2002

Arab nations leaving Palestinians to face Israel alone

By David Hirst

BEIRUT -- There has always been a vital Arab dimension to the Palestinian struggle. For a long period, in fact, the Arabs bore the brunt of the struggle, waging four, mainly disastrous, wars, in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973, with little or no Palestinian participation in them.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat

By Greg Dvorak

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