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This is Jiro Tokuyama, managing director of the Nomura Research Institute, Tokyo, who sees the ‘Pa cific Century’ on the way up. He says the Pacific Basin — with Japan, Pacific Asia, the west coast of the United States, Australia and New Zealand playing pivotal roles — will become the world’s most viable economic centre in as little as 10 to 15 years.

• Papua New Guinea 37 • Solomon Islands 41 • Pacific Century 43 • Fiji 61 • Floating fair 63 • New Hebrides 65 • Tuna fishing 67