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Rekindling the Sino-American romance on Valentine’s Day?
The American | American Enterprise Institute
It is perhaps fitting that Xi Jinping, China’s current vice president and likely next paramount leader, is in Washington on Valentine’s Day for meetings with President Obama and Vice President Biden. It’s an opportunity for Washington and Beijing to reki
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An old wooden building in Yanaka. Photograph: Alamy Photograph: Rex Features Japan's first western-style hotel, opened in 1890 and rebuilt twice since, lays claim to a whole city block of prime real estate across from the landscaped grounds of the Imperi
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Children make instant noodles, while former Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi (C) looks on at the opening of a cup noodle museum in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo, on September 17, 2011. Japan's Nissin Foods opened a cup noodle museum on September 17... View Photo »
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Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda speaks at a news conference to declare the tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant to be in cold shutdown, in Tokyo December 16, 2011. TOKYO (Reuters) - A prolonged cycle of dashed hopes, failed strategies an
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TOKYO -- If you want to silence a room filled with Japanese politicians, suggest they should learn from China. The conventional wisdom favors the flip side of this dynamic: China should be studying Japan’s playbook. Japan, after all, is an e
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DORASAN - A former South Korean first lady and the chairwoman of Hyundai Group on Monday met with new North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang, where they paid respects to the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, the Unification Ministry here said.
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Nissin Foods Holdings president Koki Ando (C), a son of instant noodle inventor Momofuku Ando, former Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) and Seven and I Holdings chairman Toshifumi Suzuki (R) pose for a photo in front of a statue of Momofuku... View Photo »
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Third generation ... Kim Jong-un, the youngest son of North the Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who died on December 17. Photo: Reuters An iron hand still rules North Korea's hermit kingdom despite its ruler's death, writes Hamish McDonald. The life of Kim Jo
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LITTLE ROCK President Barack Obama has had the mirror-image experience of his predecessor in East Asia. President George W. Bush had a splendid relationship with Japan and its Elvis-loving prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi. Bush never clicked with South
About Junichiro Koizumi
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Junichiro Koizumi (小泉 純一郎, Koizumi Jun'ichirō?, born January 8, 1942) is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. He retired from politics when his term in parliament ended. Full Article
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