Outside of the Northeast Corridor, and unlike in Europe and Japan, only a few city pairs in the U.S. are close enough to allow the necessary speed and convenience.
In South Korea, because of the fragility of its political institutions, because it too has delayed banking reform but most of all because unlike in Japan and South-East Asia the rot in Korea is not confined to finance but extends across many of the country's biggest industrial conglomerates (see article).
Unlike those 3D satellite broadcasts tested in Japan and the UK, Korea will deliver its 3D content through its terrestrial networks.
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Unlike in America or Britain, legal and bureaucratic constraints in Japan have stifled collaboration between academia and industry.
And like Japanese banks, the Chinese ones gather deposits from thrifty households but lend only some of these back out, mainly to companies, parking the vast excess in government bonds and with the central bank (although the Chinese government, unlike Japan's debt-laden government, is a net creditor that invests these excess funds overseas).
Unlike economic historians of the past, Japanese Braudelians and Wallersteinians claim that Japan's modernisation had proceeded fairly steadily before the Meiji Restoration of 1868.
Unlike Japan in the 1990s, the U.S. and U.K. moved quickly to address problems in their banks but Spain, Greece and certain other eurozone governments did not.
Unlike their counterparts in more regulated sectors such as retailing and construction, Japan's small manufacturers are accustomed to competition, and therefore unafraid of the deregulatory policies of the current government.
But unlike European nations that socialized their currencies and cannot print euros on their own, Japan has complete control over its currency printing press.
But they do doubt that Spain or Italy can generate the euros they need, because -- unlike the U.S. or Japan or Britain -- Spain and Italy lack the power to create their own money.
Bush said the war on terror was "unlike any we have fought before, " but said the sacrifices Americans made to defeat Japan and Germany in World War II, and to prevail in the Cold War, are akin to what is needed now.
This means that unlike the US, interest payments on sovereign debt are mostly paid back into the Japanese economy, and Japan can, in effect, use tax revenue to pay interest on it.
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Unlike many revisionists, he embraces the post-war order, wants an internationalist role for Japan, and does not see bogeymen behind every tree.
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