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I would like to commend Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama wholeheartedly for his determination to work toward a 25 percent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2020. It is utterly absurd to question the... [read full story]
Tokyo's historical commercial centre, Nihonbashi (literally translated to 'Japan bridge') is undergoing a facelift. But authorities are mindful against turning it into another urban development project like many other major...
By Mutsuko Murakami TOKYO, Nov 24 (IPS) - These ideas, they say, are best summed up in the concept of solidarity economy (SE). The term was first coined at the World Social Forum, originally a Brazil-based civil society’s...
Flopping Aces Just more evidence that your common criminal is just plain retarded: On October 1st, 2009 California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced that an investigation had been opened into ACORN’s activities in...
from the WSJ The president says he understands the urgency of our fiscal crisis, but his policies are the equivalent of steering the economy toward an iceberg. By DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN President Barack Obama took office promising...
