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Time to accept Japan at its word
News, Yuriko Koike, Published on 12/08/2015
» In recent years, the number of tourists visiting Japan has been increasing rapidly, reaching a record 13.4 million last year, a 29% increase from 2013. Japan seems to be making great strides toward its goal of recapturing the position as an Asian cultural centre that it held a century ago, when the Indian Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore lived in Tokyo. Chinese revolutionary leaders Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek, along with many other prominent Asians, moved there as well.
Will the Asian century meet an early end?
News, Yuriko Koike, Published on 27/09/2015
» The British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm once called the epoch stretching from the French Revolution of 1789 to World War I’s outbreak in 1914 as the “long 19th century”. A little over a decade ago, people began to speculate about an emerging “Asian century”, driven by an unstoppable China and enabled by America’s supposed inevitable decline.