R. Taggart Murphy (Tsukuba): Japan As Number One in the Global Economic Crisis: Lessons for the World? The Japan Myth: Slow growth in Japan over the last decade was due not to insufficiently aggressive macroeconomic policies, but to an unfavorable demographic trend. Is Japan the next major world economy to tank? Japan may be the first nation to opt for a no growth, steady state economy — what’s wrong with being No. 2? Japan's Galapagosization: Technologically out of step with the rest of the economic powers, faltering politically, and hindered by an aging and isolated population, Japan has some changes to make if it is to regain its footing on the world stage. In Japan, the young face generational roadblocks. It may be now-or-never for Japan’s pop culture creators to rehabilitate their industries and reach out to their audiences. Why isn't Japan having sex? Waiting for the dam to break: David McNeill on WikiLeaks and Japan. Bob Gates now appears to understand that the US-Japan alliance is much bigger than one base in Okinawa — but both sides still have a long way to go. A review of Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study of the United States and Japan. The trade tensions with China sometimes seem like a rerun of the 1980s rivalry with Japan — but can Washington use its old strategies? Gavan McCormack (ANU): Small Islands, Big Problem: Senkaku/Diaoyu and the Weight of History and Geography in China-Japan Relations.
