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[edit] Anti-American European

It appears that their was an anti-American European or Wikipedia using Commonwealth English, whose primary goal in this article was to denigrate the USA. Some of his sentences were tweaked to make them more neutral--their points ARE still there, just not so pointedly targeted at the United States. Chiss Boy 11:58, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Interest rates

The article notes that the interest rates are 0% in [Japan] now but this is untrue as recently Japan has raised interest rates slightly. The main article on Japan references a BBC article that discusses the raise in interest rates (BBC:Japan scraps zero interest rates). I believe the interest rates are currently somewhere around 0.5% (Ian Lewis 01:46, 2 March 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Modification made to Asuka Period explained

I have made a small change in the text around the emissary sent by Japan to China in 607. The previous text was not wrong, but I wanted to make it look less (though not completely) controversial on the smallest points.

First point: Since it is commonly believed that Prince Shotoku was the one who proposed and started the emissary to Sui, it may as well be interpreted that letters brought to China was written by him, but it is generally safer to say such official letters were sent, without referring to who wrote it.

Secondly: the "Book of Sui" only mentions that the letter in which "the rising sun" appears made Emperor Yang angry. It is again safer to provide a citation as to how it can be interpreted, although the original text does probably reflect the common understandings today. Therefore I have added one from the Cambridge. --OhMyDeer 15:14, 29 March 2007 (UTC)