The region is a shade more violent than the rest of America, and much more so than Europe or Japan.
Mr. VAITHEESWARAN: The main difference has been the emergence of China as an important consumer of oil as well as of course the U.S. continuing to use energy much more inefficiently than Europe or Japan.
It's also why the U.S. is likely to come through the crisis much more quickly than, say, Japan, which spent the better part of the 1990s hiding its own banking crisis from itself.
As Mr Bhalla points out, a dollar earned in America buys much more in Ethiopia or India than in Japan or America itself.
Dentsu functions in Japan as much more than an advertising agency.
As I have pointed out elsewhere, there is much more to the Japan auto trade story than meets the eye.
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And Treasury note and bond yields are much more controlled by global forces and higher as well than in Japan.
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Deutsche Bank reckons that even South Korea, whose exports compete more directly with Japan than do China's, is unlikely to suffer much harm from a weaker yen.
Economists agree that Japan's problems are much more serious and will require much more radical policy action than the authorities there have yet delivered.
Meanwhile, it bears noting that in recent years Japan has contributed much more to Europe's security, largely through aid to the Balkans, than Europe has to East Asia's.
More generally, Americans complain that Japan is again trying to export itself out of recession rather than undertaking much-needed domestic reform.
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