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Japan must shake off US-style globalization
The likely next prime minister outlines his hopes for a more Asia-focused Japan.
By Yukio Hatoyama
from the August 19, 2009 edition

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TOKYO – In the post-cold war period, Japan has been continually buffeted by the winds of market fundamentalism in a US-led movement that is more usually [...]

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Nikkei 225 (Nikkei heikin kabuka 225) is a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). It has been calculated daily by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) newspaper since 1971. It is a price-weighted average (the unit is Yen), and the components are reviewed once a year. Currently, the Nikkei is used as the [...]

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China and Japan continue to be the largest investors in US assets.

 US treasury bonds ’still the best option’
By Xin Zhiming (China Daily)
Updated: 2008-11-20 09:46
 China is likely to continue increasing holdings of US treasury bonds even after becoming the No 1 holder because it is the best way to deploy its $1.9 trillion foreign exchange reserves, [...]

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