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Tonga 31 Japan 18 – but Japan is a winner

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Tonga 31-18 Japan; Tonga slew the giant. But Japan is a gentle giant and champion in terms of social justice and equality They may have lost the game but they gets the trophy for off-the-field fairness.

Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand’s rankings rate Japan champion in terms of social justice and equality. While being one of the world’s richest nations, Japan and its corporations have done remarkably well with the national distribution of this wealth, making it the most equal of all 20 nations in this tournament. Japan is a global leader in this respect – to the point that the Wall Street Journal and economists like Amartya Sen say that Japan is ‘the only communist nation that works’!

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