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OPINION: Radical change is required to get out of Japan’s minus growth of 12.7%

February 23, 2009 By Japan Press Weekly

Japan's real GDP growth rate fell at an annual rate of 12.7 percent in the 4th quarter of 2008. Its total exports fell at the sharpest pace on record. Capital investment and personal consumption also declined.

Nuclear wake-up call

February 20, 2009

Kate Hudson, chair of the London-based Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, issued a grave warning after the collision of a British and a French nuclear-armed submarine patrolling the mid-Atlantic a couple of weeks ago. “This is a...

Newsweeks socialism

February 20, 2009

Newsweek’s Feb. 16 issue features the provocative cover story, “We are all socialists now.” What a change. After almost two decades of being told, “We are all capitalists,” people who are losing their jobs, their homes...

Black-and-white TV

February 20, 2009

Forty-five short years ago I sat at my TV And in that grainy image, I witnessed tyranny. I saw the dogs and hoses And the men at either end. I was ashamed at what I witnessed...

Che reminds us why we fight

February 20, 2009

For months I couldn’t wait to finally see Steven Soderbergh’s four-hour, two-part epic “Che” about the heroic victories and military defeats of revolutionary guerilla fighter Ernesto Guevara. As a youth the iconic image of Che was...