Shinzo Abe underlined his desire to strengthen Japan's ties with Australia, saying both nations loved peace, freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
The book is not in the least parochial, because its themes are universal: love of land and country, love and hate of nations, love and suspicion among people, fear and war and common decency.
The Eagle Nation loves you.
Like a doomed soap opera couple, the nation loves to watch them bicker.
But a stranglehold that the whole nation loves is called a hug.
It is said to have been created to mark the wedding of Princess Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt to the Prince of Battenberg in 1894 – and the nation loves it.
In 2012, David Cameron's government unveiled a highly touted scheme to train unemployed British youth to cook the chicken tikka masalas that the nation loves so much.
pic.twitter.com/fe3Q5z3qcq December 5, 2013 Anton McCoy notes: Anton McCoy (@antonmccoy) If the bad weather in Scotland has taught us anything, it's that this nation loves to bounce.
What our Washington politicians could have taught us, and I'm convinced our nation loves it, is the lesson of redemption.
And no place may turn out to be more important that day than California, long the state the nation loves to mock as a collection of kooks and conservatives who produced both Ronald Reagan and Jerry Brown.
To start with, our puritanical nation loves a good sex scandal.
