To the Editor: Japan is the regional economic superpower and has proved unwilling to fix itself.

It is a regional superpower but one that is hamstrung in many ways.

He also laid the foundation for Sweden's professional army that was to make Sweden into a regional superpower in the 17th century.

There are visions of a role as a "regional superpower."

To an even greater degree today China is considered the regional superpower.

It has long seen itself as a regional superpower.

The nation feels perennially vulnerable, especially along its long desert border with India, the regional superpower.

As a result of these economic difficulties, extremist movements gained strength; and there was no regional superpower in central Europe.

Are they a viable candidate for regional superpower?

Turkey intends to play the part of a regional superpower, aspiring to greater freedom to shape its own destiny.