American eyes turn to Japan

Is Japan upsetting US or scaring it? Given all that's going wrong in the US economy, rising unemployment, falling stocks and weakening consumer confidence, the nation's top policy makers would seem to have plenty on their hands. That hasn't stopped Alan Greenspan and Paul O'Neill from focusing considerable attention on events on the other side of the world. The Federal Reserve chairman and Treasury secretary are making expansive comments about Japan's feeble economy these days. Not criticism, per se, but statements of concern about how the world would be a better place if its...