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For more on what has really happened to the Japanese economy in the last two decades, here is an article I wrote for the New York Times Sunday Review last year.
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Get a Nobel and get a knighthood as well: as the two Russian immigrants who got the Physics Prize this year for graphene have just found out (a full list of the New Year Honours is here).
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According to Delta Vacations, flight and hotel packages to the region are up as much as 53% in the past year, as visitors discover that virtually everything here is new or improved, with great value propositions.
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Here is the less subtle evidence: In 2012, Apple introduced two new iPads, in one year.
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If a mosque is erected, we won't be able to celebrate the New Year here, because of the presence of a mosque.
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Perhaps there is some cognitive dissonance going on here though one 59-year-old interviewee in the New York Times article seemed to have figured out the secret to harvesting the bounty of both cities.
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Here he is meeting Cecil Beaton, partying with David Bailey in East London, throwing the party of the year in New York to herald the arrival of the Rolling Stones, raising horses in Arizona, releasing an album in July, and "doing up" (though he would hate that term) homes for the likes of Rod Stewart, Charles Saatchi and Princess Michael of Kent.
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