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About Toru Hashimoto
Following a short biography I did on Park Won-Soon I thought what with Shisaku and Sigma 1′s focus on the upcoming elections a little more light should be shed on Hashimoto Tōru , the current Mayor ...
The FTA that everyone forgot about
A piece about China and South Korea from NHK. Negotiations for a FTA between China and South Korea began the other day with a further statement that the tri-lateral talks (including Japan) will begin by ...
Tobacco in Japan #2
Further to my post on Smoking in Japan, Monocle Magazine’s Kenji Hall has written a piece about the DPJ’s plans to curtail smoking. Strange that he doesn’t mention that ex-civil servants normally end up in ...
The unemployment of the (not so) young in Japan
A trip down memory lane for me today as I stumbled across the Mainichi Shinbun’s Op/Ed on young Japanese 30 somethings and their continued instability in their livelihoods despite the fact that it was long ...
About the new Mayor of Seoul: Park Won-soon
Mr Park has been making headlines lately for being the Anti-bulldozer.Seeing as his English wikipedia page is lacking I figured a few bits and snippets were required. Let us begin with a timeline (mainly extracted ...
South Korean Overseas Purchases on the rise
Felt as though my coverage on SK was becoming a bit lax so figured a bit of a correction is required. In this mornings Financial Times it was noted that South Korean Purchases overseas increased ...
A response to Europe ‘at risk of early grave’ comment by Kevin Rudd
From the BBC: Mr Rudd told the annual meeting of world leaders that Europe had become sidelined from the debate about the growing economic and political influence of China and Asia, the AFP news agency ...
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