Already U.S. inflation is twice that of Europe and infinitely more than that of Japan.
Coming out of the crisis, the combined stockmarket capitalisation of the three parts of Greater China is more than a third that of Japan's, and their turnover is 50% bigger.
With surveys showing that more than 80% of households feel inflation is rising, it is hard to argue that Japan any longer holds a deflationary mindset.
For the next two decades Mexico will have more people of working age than dependents, a demographic profile that allowed Japan and Korea to make huge leaps forward in the decades after World War II.
"This will fuel fears in Japan that could be more dangerous than the physical effects of radiation, " she said, noting that people living under stress have higher rates of heart problems, suicide and mental illness.
You have to like that as an advertiser because that is more potential consumers than the combined population of the United States, Russia, Japan, Brazil and Pakistan.
In some cases, I found in the SDI negotiations, that such individuals were often more forceful advocates of the Japanese position than even my counterparts from Japan.
The four units of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, owned by the Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, were gravely damaged in the 9.0 March 11 earthquake and resulting tsunami that took the lives of more than 10, 000 people and has the northern part of Japan, and its neighbors China and Russia, on high alert for nuclear radiation leaks.
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More generally, Americans complain that Japan is again trying to export itself out of recession rather than undertaking much-needed domestic reform.
So, once traders figured out that the nuclear problem in Japan was more like Three Mile Island than Chernobyl, the question of what exactly everyone was so worried about from an economic perspective seemed to take center stage.
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All of this, surely, calls for something a bit more urgent than the stately walk that Japan has adopted so far.
America's potential growth rate is higher than that of the euro zone and Japan, thanks largely to faster population growth and more flexible labour and product markets.
He is seeking venture-capital funding so that he can reap the rewards of his creativity in a manner more in tune with Silicon Valley than Japan.
It does not come cheap: the OECD reckons that they spend 3-4% of GDP on direct benefits to families, far more than do Germany, Japan and southern Europe.
Certainly, a government reliant on a number of parties to pass legislation may mean that complicated reforms to shake up the Bank of Japan are likely to remain more of a threat than a reality.
Japan has been trying to get itself out of an economic funk that has lasted for more than two decades.
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In fact, there is reason to think that, for now, a weak dollar may be more of a worry for America than a strong yen is for Japan.
Given the current landscape, with central banks in the U.S., Europe, the U.K. and now Japan executing various methods of quantitative easing, Koester warns that companies need to be more mindful than ever of the real-time impact of foreign exchange fluctuations on their bottom line.
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