DEAR RYUTARO
UNLESS HE WANTS TO BE REMEMBERED as the Herbert Hoover of Japan, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto needs to act to rescue his country's economy -- and fast.
Todd Buchholz is an economist, author, and former White House economic policy director under George H.W. Bush. He has written widely on economics and finance, with books including 'New Ideas from Dead Economists' and 'Market Shock.' He contributed pieces to The Weekly Standard on economic policy and U.S.-Japan relations.
UNLESS HE WANTS TO BE REMEMBERED as the Herbert Hoover of Japan, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto needs to act to rescue his country's economy -- and fast.
UNTIL THIS YEAR when Hideo Nomo started throwing fastballs for the Los Angeles Dodgers, most Americans couldn't even name a single Japanese citizen. A recent public opinion survey named Bruce Lee the single most famous Japanese. Too bad he was Chinese, not to mention dead for two decades now.…