A new direction for Japan
Posted: December 23, 2011 at 4:36 a.m.
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 Korea’s left-leaning president. You might think the stars would align the same way for Obama, because during most of his presidency Japan has been led by a left-leaning party and South Korea by a conservative.
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Editorial, Pages 18 on 12/23/2011
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