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By Joe Mayes and Andrew Atkinson, Bloomberg
10 Apr 2021 00:31
A haulage truck passes an illuminated sign reading Brexit Be Prepared on the E40 highway towards Calais, at the intersection in Ostend, Belgium, on Friday, January 1, 2021. Image: Olivier Matthys/Bloomberg
The warnings were stark. A vote to leave the European Union, the British government said, would trigger an immediate recession, a painful fall in house prices, and a steep drop in exports.
Itâs almost 100 days since Britain completed its split from the EU almost five years after the referendum vote â- and a clearer picture of the consequences of the decision to leave is starting to emerge.
Apr 10, 2021
Let’s travel back in time for a moment. The 1966 edition of Fodor’s Guide to Japan and East Asia contained a 34-page introductory essay by famed translator and literary scholar Edward Seidensticker titled “Japan: A crowded, lonely land.”
“Although a Japanese is seldom alone, it may be said that he is frequently, perhaps even characteristically, lonely,” wrote Seidensticker. “Japan is not a society of relaxed, easy associations. … All in all it is a chilly, fragmented, constricting world.”
Whether the above is true or not, the government under Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga recently announced steps to address the problem of loneliness, which over the past 14 months has almost certainly been aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic.