More broadly, the U.S. should stop treating its allies, especially Japan, as helpless dependents.
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The embargo caused America's customers, especially Japan, to look elsewhere for sources of supply.
Three years after Professor Kennedy's book, America took on the Gulf war but made its allies, especially Japan and Germany, pay the bills.
All eyes financially on Middle East, Asia, especially Japan and China.
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Under Mr Singh, India has forged several trade and other agreements with countries there especially Japan, which also sees India as an important potential ally against China.
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"We get overloaded a bit in closely held companies, especially in Japan, " Ibbotson says.
But they still report a rapid increase in the number of foreign students, especially from Japan.
Creating the chardonnay Gutlove is so proud of was not easy, especially in Japan's harsh climates.
This would cause distress elsewhere, especially in Japan, where stagnation could turn into outright depression.
But 92% of all cognac is exported and the lucrative Far East market remains wobbly, especially in Japan.
"When I'm walking with him, I feel like I'm walking with a demigod, especially in Japan, " says Jean-Baptiste Duzan, Renault's corporate controller.
The biggest event on the diplomatic calendar is the annual G8 summit meeting, especially since Japan is the host nation this year.
Interest rates are also low, especially in Japan, where government bond yields fell this week to a world record low of less than 1.8%.
The post office's branch network is a political as well as commercial goldmine, which can deliver huge numbers of votes, especially in Japan's all-important rural constituencies.
One of the strongest trends in the 2000 edition of the 1000 ranking: across Asia, companies are scrambling to boost efficiency, profitability and innovation, especially in Japan.
Some analysts said a pullback, especially in Japan, was due.
Simponi and Stelara did well internationally, especially in Japan.
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Critics have long pointed out that the systems-integration method is badly flawed especially in Japan, where there is little accountability and no good mechanism for punishing big industrial firms for making mistakes.
The generic industry is being driven by the aging of the population, escalating health care costs, political and financial pressure to accommodate generic drug growth, and increased generic penetration, especially in Japan, Italy, Spain and France.
These would be tough questions for any country to answer but are especially so in Japan.
Indeed, Japan especially has gone to great lengths to convince China of this.
China's apparent progress is likely to spur others, especially India and Japan, to accelerate their own UAV development or acquisition programs.
For the banks in particular, the health of corporate Japan is especially important.
Another is the inexorably strengthening capabilities and targeted strategies of rival automakers outside Japan, especially, it seems, the Koreans and Germans.
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Microsoft hopes its Xbox Live service will help kickstart the "broadband revolution" and boost sales - especially in Europe and Japan where it has performed disappointingly.
Notice all the lines go up, each following a roughly similar path. (Folks in Japan are especially happy and enriched.) This underscores the new findings.
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Japan is especially reluctant to do so, as was illustrated by a recent spat over American beef, in which fears of mad-cow disease strengthened the hands of protectionists.
Newly installed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made the depreciation of the currency one of the centerpieces of his controversial economic program, so there are expectations of aggressive tactics from the Bank of Japan, especially now that Masaaki Shirakawa announced on Tuesday his intention to step down early as its governor.
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But in the past 15 years, despite (or perhaps because of) the emperor and the government's best efforts, bass fishing has become the new Elvis in Japan, especially among the country's youth, where the sport has tapped into all of the outlaw, counter-culture character (and growth) that skateboarding has in the U.S. Japan-based tackle manufacturers, like Yozuri, Shimano and Daiwa , now supply bass anglers all over the world.
Westerners, especially Americans, often misunderstand Japan because they naively think that every nation wants to have a U.S.-style, consumer-oriented system.
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