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Science 21 November 2008:
Vol. 322. no. 5905, p. 1163
DOI: 10.1126/science.1161131
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Editorial

Opening Japan Up to the World

Kiyoshi Kurokawa

With a global financial crisis at hand, It is clear that major change is needed among leading nations. For Japan, this comes at a time when two prime ministers have left office in barely 2 years, and support for the new prime minister, Taro Aso, is weak less than 2 months after he took up office. Perhaps the public, sensing the need for change, is pessimistic about the possibilities, given that Japan has been so resistant to change over the past decade.

Kiyoshi Kurokawa is a professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo and was Special Advisor to the Cabinet of Japan from 2006 to 2008.

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