The Iraqi deputy premier, Rafie al-Isawi, on Saturday received in Baghdad theJapaneseambassador to Iraq and discussed with him the partnership, cooperation and development pact signed between the two countries on Jan. 28, 2009. ...
Japaneseauthorities quarantined the three males, who had been on a high school trip to Canada, and 49 others who were aboard their flight which arrived Friday at Tokyo\'s Narita international airport from the US city of Detroit. ...
A disapproving Atrios quotes Bloomberg:“Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is betting that U.S. banks can do something theirJapanesecounterparts were unable to accomplish in that country\'s“lost decade” of the 1990s: earn their way ...
Dissent: Are We TurningJapanese?, by James Surowiecki: Over the past few days, the idea that the Obama Administration\'s failure to nationalize the banks may very well doom the US economy to the kind of Lost Decade that Japan endured...