SEOUL — Japan’s central bank on Tuesday doubled its inflation target to 2 percent, a main pillar in the country’s aggressive new strategy to break away from a two-decade economic stagnation.The Bank of Japan’s new commitment, coupled with …

(Reuters) - The Bank of Japan will consider easing monetary policy again this month and also perhaps doubling its inflation target to 2 percent, sources said, as the economy's weakness threatens to delay its escape from two decades of defl…

The New York Review of BooksHow China Gets Its Way January 10, 2013 Jonathan MirskyChina’s Search for Security by Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell Columbia University Press, 406 pp., $32.95 In 1955, when I began my graduate studies of C…