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Category Archives: Asia
How Japanese and Americans Save Differently
Cash is a much safer way of saving in Japan than in the United States; it doesn’t lose as much value over time, unlike here. Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Other
Tagged cash, inflation, Japan, savings, stock market, United States
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Japan’s Strange Isolation, and How It Hurts Us and Japan
In an ideal world, Japanese companies would have spread the smart-phone to us years before Apple came up with the idea, and our advances in technology would have convinced Japanese companies to abandon the wasteful fax machine years ago. Continue reading
Posted in Asia
Tagged cell-phones, fax machines, isolation, Japan, strange, technology, trade, United States
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What Foreign Language Do North Koreans Learn? English!
North Korea has been in the news in the past few days and weeks. Most of the attention has been negative; tensions have risen between North Korea and the United States. Not that this is new. The two countries have … Continue reading
Tourism in the United States
A lot of people visit America. According to the latest estimates, about sixty million people came in 2011. Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, Economy, Europe, Latin America
Tagged nonimmigrant visas, tourism, United States
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How North Korea Fell Behind South Korea, Part 2
It seems that there were three main events that caused North Korea’s economic decline: juche, the end of Soviet aid, and the incompetence of Kim Jong-Il. Continue reading
Posted in Asia
Tagged communism, economics, history, juche, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-Il, North Korea, South Korea, Soviet aid
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The Politikal Blog 