OP-ED: Japan must shake off US-style globalization, By Yukio Hatoyama, Christian Science Monitor, August 19, 2009

An interesting indication of how Japan, with its soon-to-be-new-ruling-party, will talk itself into turning toward China versus the U.S.--a natural choice.

The joke is, of course, that Japan never trusted markets and barely used them. Ditto with democracy.

But again, a natural and necessary turn, so get used to it and ignore the rationales. The great Asian integration process--long delayed--is beginning to pick up speed.