“Japan is like a man who has settled in a warm bath with a bottle of vodka and has cut his wrists. He is just noticing the pretty pink colour from his bleeding that is beginning to float around him.” So says David Asher, director of the Japan programme at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, who believes that Japan’s haemorrhaging government finances are a danger not only to itself, but to global financial stability.
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