Daily Yomiuri (japan) – April 3, 2009 Constitutional revision is supported by 51.6 percent of people and opposed by 36.1 percent, a Yomiuri Shimbun survey found, marking a return to a previous trend in which the majority favors revision. In a previous survey conducted in March last year, 43.1 percent said the Constitution should not…
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OH, I GOT PLENTY OF NUTTIN AND NUTTIN IS PLENTY FOR ME
The old Heyward – I. Gershwin lyrics in Porgy & Bess (enhanced by music by George Gershwin) may soon be tested as 50 million people will be out of work by the end of the year. Where do you want to be when you finally are a person with plenty of nuttin? Here is a…
CALL FOR THE REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GASES
The European Union has urged Japan and the United States to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 24 percent each by 2020 from 1990 levels in an attempt to ensure that developed countries pull their fair share in the fight against climate change. The EU figure could influence debate on Japan’s emissions reduction target for…
JAPAN IS HAPPY AS A CLAM
Here is an excerpt from this morning’s Japan Times. The entire story may be read by CLICKING HERE. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent trip to Asia underscored elements of continuity and change in the Obama administration’s Asia policy. Generally speaking, her visits to Japan, South Korea and China represented continuity; her trip to…
DON’T BREAK YOUR HEAD WHEN VISITING JAPAN
11 hospitals turn away 2-year-old. SAPPORO (Kyodo) Eleven hospitals refused to admit a 2-year-old girl with a head injury in November in Sapporo, saying they lacked the expertise or staff to handle the case, fire officials said Friday. The infant was finally accepted by a general hospital that had rejected her once, 67 minutes after…
DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING?
Apparently in Japan, killing oneself is not a big deal. About 32,000 people killed themselves in Japan in 2008, keeping suicides above the 30,000 line for an 11th straight year, a tally showed Thursday. Government officials said the latest data do not necessarily reflect the fallout from the global financial crisis, but warned suicides could…
AW, SHUCKS. HE AIN’T NOBODY NO MORE
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and U.S. President Barack Obama broadly agreed to cooperate further on stabilizing Afghanistan in their first meeting Tuesday in Washington, but the visit gave experts the impression the United States isn’t investing much in what is widely regarded to be a lame-duck Cabinet Although Obama invited Aso to be the…
NORTH KOREA’S MISUNDERSTANDING
The whole point of talks between or among nations is to resolve differences. When one nation refuses to sit down and talk with another then it is hopelessly confused about the nature of negotiations. We know of no nation that does not commit this blunder from time to time. The USA has taken this approach…
JAPAN WEIGHS IN ON OBAMA
Few giant newspapers are reluctant to offer opinions on everything from the best time of year to grow tomatoes, to whether God exists or even whether Barack Obama is off to a good start. The Japan Times is no exception. Here is an excerpt from today’s editorial. “Whatever doubts may have existed about U.S. President-elect…
JAPAN WOES
November 18, 2008 Japan’s economic problems make themselves felt in many ways, among the most tragic of these is the neglect of people in desperate need of medical services. After being turned away by eight Tokyo hospitals last month, a 36-year-old woman died of brain hemorrhage after giving premature birth by Caesarian section. A month…
CRIPPLES OF THE WORLD, PAY FOR WHAT YOU GET
November 17, 2008 Japan is one tough town. Excerpt from Japan Times…………Twenty-nine disabled people and one parent of a disabled person from eight prefectures — Tokyo, Saitama, Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Hiroshima and Fukuoka — filed lawsuits Oct. 31 with district courts in their prefectural capitals contending that a law designed to help disabled people…
ASIA BITS
November 5, 2008 A new wave of intolerance seems to be sweeping across India. Hapless migrant workers from India’s poorest states, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have been attacked in Bombay, Christians have faced the wrath of Hindus in Orissa and Karnataka and Bodo tribals have attacked Bengalis in West Bengal. Amid all these developments, the…
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