Now Kyushu has to face the disadvantages of having become a "branch-factory" economy with decisions about its future made dispassionately by bean-counters in Tokyo, Dallas or Taipei.One solution, say Kyushu's irrepressible optimists, is to redouble their efforts to entice such outsiders with grants, low-interest loans and special tax breaks.
He fatally undermined the idea that moral behaviour is a matter of dispassionately calculating the likely outcomes of alternative courses of action and plumping for whichever option stands to yield the greatest utility or happiness.
Its report dispassionately set out the arguments for and against big dams.
Such is the continuing rancour about the decision to invade Iraq in the first place that it is almost impossible to debate this question dispassionately.
Given your coverage, is it that you do not understand or is it that you simply do not like us Claudio UrbanoPamplona, SpainDeath in DCSIR – While dispassionately assessing the risks of falling victim to the sniper active in and around Washington, DC, you do little to reassure my mother in California ("The logic of irrational fear", October 19th).
Each of the several fires that Mr Pamuk records viewing dispassionately, as rich people's beautiful wooden mansions burnt down on the shores of the Bosphorus, represented the loss of a family fortune.
Data protection and GMOs are not mere technocratic concerns, and the rules for them should not be dispassionately crafted by number-crunchers.
That could just be campaign blather, but conservatives fear he means it: that he really does want judges to favour the underdog rather than uphold the law dispassionately as their oath of office requires.
Polls suggest that most Americans would rather their judges upheld the law dispassionately.
Both sides treat civilians atrociously.Mr Babchenko dispassionately describes the resulting humiliation and brutalisation, not only his own but also of the million soldiers and support staff who have passed through the Chechen meatgrinder since 1994.
One may wonder if judges are best placed to make economic policy or to rule dispassionately on public-sector salary cuts.
