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Japan lets more than just interest rates stagnate

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Philip Bowring
Jan 19, 2007
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Just three days after the East Asia summit ended in Cebu, Japan struck another blow against the cooperation that Asian leaders talk so much about but practice so little. By leaning on the Bank of Japan to keep it from raising interest rates, the new Prime Minister Shintaro Abe shot himself in the foot as far as the neighbors are concerned.

All Abe's talk…

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