But it is the wrong prescription for the 30-odd lawsuits that have been lodged in California against Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi and Mitsui on behalf of many Asians and some Allied prisoners of war who were forced into slave labour during the second world war (see article).
So even if Japanese have less to spend and European and American buyers are staying on the sidelines, other Asians still have money -- and a willingness to part with it.
At the Hilton Garden Inn Grand Forks, which is connected by closed walkways to the University of North Dakota's Center for Innovation, I heard Irish and Norwegian accents and saw two Southeast Asians working on a presentation.
There have been calls for Bradford to capitalise on its success and recruit more British Asians, but it is not easy, says chairman Mark Lawn.
This morning at the Grand Forks Hilton Garden Court, which is connected by closed walkways to UND's Center for Innovation, I heard Irish accents and Norwegian accents, and I saw two Southeast Asians working on a presentation.
Private banks in the region also have to spend a great deal of time doing due diligence on potential new clients, since regulations on money laundering are becoming stricter and Asians are often secretive about the origins of their wealth.
"Asians exceed Americans on educational credentials and socioeconomic markers of success despite being predominantly first-generation immigrants, " Mr. Taylor said.
So at Obama HQ, the biggest share of the staff concentrates on getting voters to sign up at one of the campaign's many websites (one for each state, plus sites for women, veterans, Asians, Jews, nurses and so on), or to befriend the campaign through Facebook, or to click on an online ad focusing on his or her likely concerns.
Partly because Asians save more, work much harder and rely on the family rather than on a European-style welfare state.
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At the Bolton Arena on Saturday, groups of Asians waved union jacks and engaged in good-humoured banter with Bailey's voluble contingent.
Until then, Asians need to rely on indefatigable American consumers and hungry purchasers from the remaining markets in Africa and Latin America.
From the time of Pearl Harbour until roughly the end of the 1970s, war on screen was about Americans killing Nazis or Asians, and suffering few casualties.
Irna Qureshi, a writer specialising in British-Asian arts and culture, explains why British-born Asians are taking a gamble on Bollywood.
Asians, on average, tend to be smaller with shorter extremities and long torsos evolutionary adaptations to harsh climes encountered by Homo sapiens who migrated to Northeast Asia 40, 000 years ago.
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Small, insular and hugely prosperous compared with the African majority, Kenya's Asians have always felt dependent on government backing.
Long boasting the highest scores on standardised tests among minority groups, Asians have never needed preferential treatment from universities, and are now benefiting from the new system. (In the past, some universities used quotas to keep Asian numbers down).
One of the main reasons why the South-East Asians have prospered is that they have concentrated on economic development, setting aside old quarrels and territorial disputes.
He went on to Cornell University, where he joined the Zu, an Asians-only fraternity house, and majored in business and marketing.
Just as important, Naidu gave all South Asians hope that even a thoroughly discredited political establishment can, on occasion, produce leaders with vision and vigor.
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