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BusinessWeek June 7, 2004 Port & Tashiro	Supercomputing The race is on. Superfast computers are essential to high-level scientific research. Can the U.S. recapture the lead from Japan?
Parameters Summer 2004 William E. Rapp	Past its Prime? The Future of the US-Japan Alliance Over the next two to three decades, Japan will liberalize and expand its security posture in broad ways long sought by the United States, but at the same time will increasingly desire to chart its own course in foreign policy.
BusinessWeek May 24, 2004	Japan's Spreading Pension Fund Scandal Expect to see a lot of red-faced Japanese lawmakers making deep bows of contrition before the television cameras soon, when Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi releases the names of all top government and Cabinet officials implicated in a wide-ranging pension fund scandal.
The Motley Fool April 12, 2004 Lita Epstein	Intel Trade Wars Turn Japanese Some Intel company offices near Tokyo were raided last week by Japan's fair trade watchdog amid charges of antitrust violations.
BusinessWeek March 1, 2004 Bremner, Tashiro & Roberts	Japan's Joyride On China's Coattails Soaring exports to the mainland are the driving force behind Japan's first sustained recovery in a decade
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 Brian Bremner	Commentary: Japan: How To Turn An Illusory Recovery Into A Real One To halt deflation, the BOJ's Fukui must ride banks hard to get their books in order.
BusinessWeek December 29, 2003 James Mehring	Japan: A Lot Of Drag On This Recovery Japanese business confidence is at levels not seen since 2000. But a strengthening yen and deflation are leaving Corporate Japan with a cautious outlook for 2004.
BusinessWeek November 17, 2003 Brian Bremner	Japan: After The Vote, The Long Knives Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is really at war with the antireformist elements within his own ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). And that reality will linger on after Koizumi and other LDP top brass take their victory lap on Nov. 10.
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Brian Bremner	Commentary: Currency Quid Pro Quo Japan's offer to help in Iraq means the U.S. is likely to accept a deal on the yen.
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003	Chopping Up Pork Projects In Japan Fresh from his reelection as ruling Liberal Democratic Party chief, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is flexing his political muscle. Target No. 1 is Haruho Fujii, the reform-resisting president of Japan Highway Public Corp.
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