For help, I turn to psychiatrist Dr Jun Shigemura at Japan's national defense university.
Look at Japan the past 22 years, and the US the past four years.
Look only at Japan for a painful reminder of the implications of a burst asset-price bubble.
She's sung at the famed Salzburg Festival, and later this year, will perform at Japan's Saito Kinen Festival.
The 30-year-old former employee at Japan Post Co. is heading to the U.K. in August to study fashion.
This week he lashed out at Japan, blaming some of Malaysia's woes on the weakness of the Japanese economy.
She was pursuing a glamorous career as a flight attendant at Japan Airlines.
The question of guilt has nevertheless continued to nag at Japan's national conscience.
There is concern, too, that North Korea could soon put nuclear tips on its missiles aimed at Japan and beyond.
Google could have just thrown money at Japan (which is what Bing tried to do) and they probably will make a donation.
Hideki Matsumura, economist at Japan Research Institute, said the figures "confirmed that the Japanese economy has hit bottom and started picking up".
He recently told the press that Sakakibara Eisuke, former vice minister for international affairs at Japan's Ministry of Finance, would make a "splendid" candidate.
Leaders use the cooperative nature of Japanese society to their own advantage, says Yoshio Oshitani, a specialist in moral instruction at Japan's Ministry of Education.
Its profits have been helped in part by the production boost at Japan's leading carmakers as they continue to recover from the 2011 natural disasters.
They're also looking over their shoulder at Japan's wildly popular i-mode service, whose 10 million users have access to around 5, 000 gaming and entertainment sites.
Power has been restored to part of the cooling system at Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, after it failed for the second time in a month.
China slowed an ambitious expansion of nuclear power earlier this year, suspending approvals of new nuclear plants after the March disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant.
The education ministry, meanwhile, has been encouraging graduate studies at Japan's public universities, with the promise of funding for a new type of professional graduate school.
Our central bankers are casting worried glances at Japan's debilitating deflationary experience of the past 12 years and are anxiously wondering if we're in for the same.
Now the number crunching can be done with a single PC, says Toshio Honda, a professor of engineering at Japan's Chiba University and a former Benton student.
Many are now looking hard at Japan, following the success of Ripplewood and Christopher Flowers in buying Shinsei Bank out of bankruptcy, cleaning it up and floating it.
The NRC launched a widespread review of U.S. nuclear safety after the meltdowns at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011 caused by that nation's devastating tsunami.
"A real exit strategy has to start with an inspection by the world's top experts on nuclear accidents, " Iida told reporters at Japan's national press club last week.
Should investors be looking at Japan as a "restructuring play"?
"Certainly, they are testing us and using the opportunity created by the Chinese diversion, " said Narushige Michishita, a Northeast Asia security expert at Japan's National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
Last August, gumshoes at Japan's central bank discovered that, despite Daiwa's woes, the New York branches of several other Japanese banks were still failing to separate record-keeping from trading operations.
If you want to see a banking industry and regulation that does protect the customer, look at Japan where regulation requires banks to make sure their products meet real customer needs.
Maki Sugimoto, a surgeon at Japan's Kobe University Hospital who began using replicas of patients' organs for navigation purposes in 2011, employs Japanese company Fasotec Co. to produce the 3-D models.
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