Japan still Asia’s model as the Koizumi Revolution continues

"You would not know it from reading The New York Times [The Asahi Shimbun of the United States] but the revolution led by former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is alive, well — and progressing.

Despite a campaign of denigration and misinformation by left-leaning, largely mediocre, so-called mainstream media in Japan and the U.S., it may be Asia’s most important contemporary phenomenon. Remember: Japan was the only non-European society in the 19th and 20th century successfully to modernize — if ending in the tragedy of the Great Pacific War.

The vapor trail of the soaring China Boom rocket of the past two decades, fraught with its essentially rickety launchpad, obscures events. But as the Chinese, themselves, increasingly try to find answers to entering the world power constellation; many Asians look to Japan as the model. Generations of Chinese did so until intoxication with Sovietism led to three decades of bloody repression and stagnation. The Chinese Communists unfruitfully have devoted considerable resources to asking why that model failed." More...