The lastest blogs from <a href="http://www.japaninc.com">www.japaninc.com</a><br><br><br><a href="http://www.japaninc.com/node/3975">The end of the beginning</a><br clear="all"><br>By Tobias Harris<br><br>Ozawa Ichiro indicated, in a <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/japan/2009/03/25/ozawa-wipes-away-tears-but-not-doubts/">tearful</a>
press conference Tuesday evening, <br>that he will stay on as DPJ president
despite the indictment of his chief <br>public secretary — but Ozawa's
statement may have only been the end <br>of the beginning of the final act
of Ozawa's long career...<br><br><br><br><a href="http://www.japaninc.com/node/3966">Breaking down elitism</a><br><br>By Takafumi Horie<br><br>The financial market spotlight fell on my old company Livedoor when I
split <br>the company’s stocks by 100. That’s basically when public
criticism of me <br>really began to build.<br><br>At that time, Waseda University’s Tatsuo Uemura and Michio Matsui,
President <br>of Matsui Securities, were the most open critics of mine. In
some cases, I don’t <br>think I argued against much of the criticism. I
used to think that it was a really <br>adult approach to just let the ones
who didn’t know what they were talking about <br>talk...<br><br><br><br><a href="http://www.japaninc.com/node/3971">For the Western press, Japan is always rising</a><br><br>By Tobias Harris<br><br>Forbes and AP have run nearly simultaneous articles reviving the "Japan
rising" <br>meme that I thought had died with Abe Shinzo's government.<br><br>Tim Kelly of Forbes uses the occasion of the commissioning of the Hyuga — <br>previously mentioned in <a href="http://www.observingjapan.com/2007/08/japan-rising-watch.html">this post</a> — <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/21/japan-korea-war-weapons-hyuga-business-tokyo-dispatch.html">to argue</a>
that the launch of Japan's "first <br>aircraft carrier since America
dismantled the Imperial Navy a half century ago" <br>is a landmark in
Japan's "[creeping] away" from pacifism...<br><br>