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Martin Fackler, Japan Goes From Dynamic to Disheartened; Retrenchment offers the West a grim view of the future. New York Times, Oct. 17, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/world/asia/17japan.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=japan&st=cse
Note:
(a) Japanese surnames:
Oka 岡
Oda 織田
Higaki 日垣
Kaiami 貝阿弥
(b) shrivel (vi): "to draw into wrinkles especially with a loss of moisture"
All definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(c) creative destruction is usually ascribed to Joseph Schumpeter (Austrian; 1883-1950).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
(d) For Richard Koo, see リチャード・クー
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC
(辜朝明; 台湾籍; born in 1954 at 日本兵庫県神戸市; father 辜寛敏, 台湾独立運動家)
Apparently he refuses naturalization or adoption of Japanese name.
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman is as pessimistic about US (even the globe), which he thinks becomes Japanized, economy-wise: stag-deflation.
(e) I can not find ordinary microhouse. Here are GLAMORIZED versions of microhouse:
Lucy Craft, In Japan, Living Large In Really Tiny Houses. NPR, Aug. 3, 2010.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128953596
NPR stands for National Public Radio, in US.
(f) Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_V._Prestowitz_Jr.
(g) I question this sentence in the report: "Japan faces the world’s largest government debt — around 200 percent of gross domestic product." In terms of absolute number as opposed to percentage of GDP, America's government debts (of various levels of governments, from federal to state to municipality), about 90% of GDP, is bigger.
(h) gumption (n; origin unknown): "ENTERPRISE, INITIATIVE"
(i) Mitsuo OHASHI/ Showa Denko 大橋 光夫/ 昭和電工株式会社
www.sdk.co.jp
※ 修改:．choi 于 Oct 18 14:43:14 修改本文．[FROM: 129.10.0.0] 作者: choi 时间: 10-17-2010 10:35 标题: A Stagnant Japan Is Mirror for the West 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
Martin Fackler, Japan Goes From Dynamic to Disheartened; Retrenchment offers the West a grim view of the future. New York Times, Oct. 17, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/world/asia/17japan.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=japan&st=cse
Note:
(a) Japanese surnames:
Oka 岡
Oda 織田
Higaki 日垣
Kaiami 貝阿弥
(b) shrivel (vi): "to draw into wrinkles especially with a loss of moisture"
All definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(c) creative destruction is usually ascribed to Joseph Schumpeter (Austrian; 1883-1950).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
(d) For Richard Koo, see リチャード・クー
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC
(辜朝明; 台湾籍; born in 1954 at 日本兵庫県神戸市; father 辜寛敏, 台湾独立運動家)
Apparently he refuses naturalization or adoption of Japanese name.
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman is as pessimistic about US (even the globe), which he thinks becomes Japanized, economy-wise: stag-deflation.
(e) I can not find ordinary microhouse. Here are GLAMORIZED versions of microhouse:
Lucy Craft, In Japan, Living Large In Really Tiny Houses. NPR, Aug. 3, 2010.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128953596
NPR stands for National Public Radio, in US.
(f) Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_V._Prestowitz_Jr.
(g) I question this sentence in the report: "Japan faces the world’s largest government debt — around 200 percent of gross domestic product." In terms of absolute number as opposed to percentage of GDP, America's government debts (of various levels of governments, from federal to state to municipality), about 90% of GDP, is bigger.
(h) gumption (n; origin unknown): "ENTERPRISE, INITIATIVE"
(i) Mitsuo OHASHI/ Showa Denko 大橋 光夫/ 昭和電工株式会社
www.sdk.co.jp