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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
October 5, 2008
In the early 1990s, when I was a foreign correspondent looking for my next overseas posting with the Times, I sought Japan. At the time, Tokyo was an awe-inspiring economic titan, arguably the most important capital outside the United States.
Then Japanese politicians, acting with the same....