Japan has the third largest gross domestic product on earth and has contributed greatly to global stability in a variety of ways.For years it has been among the largest official development assistance donors on earth. Its outbound capital flows played a key role in ending the Cold War. And Japan was the only nation in the world to raise taxes to help pay for Desert Storm, following Saddam Hussein's invasion of Iraq.Yet Japan has attracted surprisingly little global attention for its initiatives, however substantive they may have been. Few Japanese leaders have been broadly recognized as pac…READ FULL ARTICLE
