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The New York Times on Japan: Continuing fallout

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Eamonn Fingleton

Expert observers Holstein, Fallows, and Baker express their dismay at the Times’s miscues. I am not alone in challenging the New York Times’s recent account of a “disheartened” Japan. William J. Holstein, former president of the Overseas Press Club of America … Continue reading →

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More nonsense from the New York Times on Japan’s “lost decades”

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Eamonn Fingleton

The Times says Japan is “disheartened.” It hasn’t looked at Japan’s trade figures — or America’s. The New York Times yesterday carried a major article headlined “Japan Goes from Dynamic to Disheartened.” Rarely has the truth of the Japanese economy … Continue reading →

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