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After decades of intensive economic growth Japan is under pressure to translate its material success into international influence. This new role appears to be taking shape under Prime Minister Nakasone. The country faces rising protectionism sentiments from its major trading partners, and a growing military threat from the USSR. Nakasone has maintained a solid working relation with President Reagan, while adopting a hawkish stance towards the USSR. Nevertheless, Japan still remains under the US nuclear umbrella. Nakasone has pursued closer relations with South Korea. His first foreign visit as prime minister was to Seoul. The Chinese have been concerned about symptoms of remilitarization on the one hand, but also recognize that a greated Japanese security presence will help to diffuse the Soviet threat in the region, thus relieving pressure on Beijing. The first six months of Nakasone's administration thus indicated that Japan may be embarking on a diplomatic and defence course which has a higher profile than in the past.
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AbstractSince the influence of symbolism lead many members of the École littéraire de Montréal to consider poetry from a musical paradigm (music, asserted Louis Dantin about Nelligan, “is the brother of his rhythm and his melancholy”), critics have not paid much attention to the way French-Canadians poets of the late 1800's borrowed some motifs from painting. Further, if we were to identify the most common way to conceive the old idea of the ut pictura poesis at the dawn of the Quebec modernity, it would not be as a function of the landscape, as we might expect, but rather as a function of the portrait. Paying attention to Eudore Évanturel, Charles Gill and Émile Nelligan's poetry, this article wants to understand the literary, poetic and aesthetic stakes of the portrait. Far from being limited to the ekphrasis, artistic creation in the portrait-poem takes a distinct implicit form as it considers the continuity between images and words, between the seeing and the saying. The portrait, most precisely, leads to the silence ; because his presence appears in absentia, as Jean-Luc Nancy says, it brings a modern conception of image.