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Japan is, and prides itself on being, the most ethnically homogenous affluent or populous country in the world Old-Age Poverty

Japan is, and prides itself on being, the most ethnically homogenous affluent or populous country in the world

Jared Diamond argues (in Upheaval) that modern Japan is facing a crisis, of sorts: Japan today has the worlds third-largest economy, only recently overtaken by Chinas. Japans national output is high both because Japan has a large population (second on…
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June 20, 2019
And then there were two Boris Johnson

And then there were two

By BAGEHOT AFTER TWO days of voting Tory MPs have chosen two of their colleagues to go through to the next stage of the leadership election: a run-off when the party’s 160,000 members will choose the winner. They are Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary. Mr Johnson got…
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June 20, 2019