It has tried to reform its system, but what has really happened is that the new has grown alongside the old.

FORBES: China After 30 Years of Reform, I

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.

FORBES: Is the Bank of Japan Really Easing -- Or Does It Just Want to Depreciate the Yen?

Nobody really knows what has happened to the vanished claimants: they might have moved to areas not covered by a pilot, or turned to crime.

ECONOMIST: Working for your welfare

"Until America can really understand what has happened and look at it objectively and truthfully, we will still continue to be mired in the past, " Sanchez said.

CNN: Former U.S. commander in Iraq calls for truth commission

It really hit home the next day, when you wake up and realise what has happened, how people have lost loved ones, and the scale of what has gone on.

BBC: SPORT | Football | Europe | Reds tie evokes Heysel memories