My (optimistic) assessment of the current political situation is in today's issue of The Wall Street Journal Asia.
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Friday, April 04, 2008
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- Tobias Harris is a Japanese politics specialist 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 and the Far Eastern Economic Review, and has provided commentary for CNBC Asia, Bloomberg, BBC, and NPR. He can be contacted at observingjapan@gmail.com.
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