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and participation in the global economy

the only one in Emperor Hirohito’s Supreme War Council who believed even before the bombs were dropped that Japan should surrender

Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia Bouden Or are other factors atHong Kong and Southeast Asia are home to five hundred million people, yet their economies are dominated by only fifty families whose interests range from banking to real estate, shipping to sugar, gambling to lumber. At their peak, eight of the worlds two dozen richest men were Southeast Asian, but their names would not be familiar to most regular readers of The Wall Street Journal. A complex mythology surrounds these billionaires, but in Asian