MANILA: Japan’s global reach today underscores how its people heeded this counsel from Meiji-era farmers – “Do not look at the heavens through a bamboo reed.”
What about Filipinos? Our geography is also insular. Do we look beyond our shores? Or do we subliminally assume, as critics snort, that the world pivots around the Philippines? Are we locked into tunnel vision by bamboo reeds?
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