However, I cannot help but recall an historic decision made in 1938 by Fumimaro Konoe, Japan's prime minister, in the early stage of what the Japanese military called the China incident.

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However, I cannot help but note that there is a world of difference between putting something on the front pages of the newspapers for a few weeks and achieving changes in laws and, above all, in the distribution of wealth.

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