...Now that the city of Obama has given him his very own hissho daruma, described by Asahi as an "indispensable item" for Japanese elections.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
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- Tobias Harris
- Tobias Harris is a fledgling Japan/East Asia specialist — some have called him a "Japan hand," although for now he is probably more of a "Japan finger" — who worked for a DPJ member of the upper house of the Diet 2006-2007. He is now a Ph.D. student in political science at MIT. He has been published in the Wall Street Journal Asia, the Far Eastern Economic Review, and the Japan Times, and has appeared as a commentator on CNBC Asia's "Asia Squawkbox." He can be contacted at observingjapan@gmail.com.
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