This article originally appeared in the National Journal's Cancun Insider.------------------------------ Kyoto was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of its burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Japan announced it. And Japan's pronouncements are good for anything they choose to put voice to.Old Kyoto was dead as Jacob Marley, which is to say, as dead as a door-nail.Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a [...]