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Eight years after her death and six decades following her quiet retirement from the film world, Setsuko Hara arguably remains the best-known twentieth-century Japanese actress. Audiences worldwide remember her unique beauty (she was often suspected to be of partial European heritage)1 and the humane performances she gave in the films of Yasujiro Ozu. “Decidedly unglamorous,” wrote Stephen Harvey in a 1974 issue of Film Comment, “this least histrionic of actresses relied on little more than an irrepressible half smile and decorously hushed voice. Yet her performances are invariably so mov...

Japan's resistance to free-market capitalism is the source of itscurrent malaise, and a failure to address this issue will make afuture crisis in Japan inevitable. For the good of Japan and theglobal economy, the Bush Administration should work closely withthe Japanese government and convince leaders of that nation toundertake long-delayed reform.

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