Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Honda has developed an improved gas-electric motor for the new Civic compact set to go on sale in North America, Japan and Europe this fall, the Japanese automaker said Tuesday
Honda Motor Co. said a specific mileage estimate for the new hybrid system would not be provided until later this year, but said it's about five per cent better than current Civic hybrid cars, which delivers about 51 miles per gallon under U.S. highway conditions
Japanese patrol boats have appeared much more frequently near South Korea’s Dokdo islets in the East Sea than before, military officers said Wednesday.
According to the Defense Ministry, the number of times that Japanese patrol vessels appeared near the rocky islets stood at 38 as of July 4, more than twice as high as in previous years.
Two white papers from Japan have added a chill to the current low in China-Japan relations.
A summary of the country's 2005 White Paper on National Defense, published by Yomiuri Shimbun on Sunday, devotes more detail to China than previous such documents.
The white paper is saying Japan needs to respond to China's increased defense budget.
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject:
What I want to see is Honda making a super efficient diesel engine forget the hybrid stuff give me a diesel engine that can take 300,000 miles and gets 70 + mpg.
China on Thursday marked the 68th anniversary of the start of Second World War fighting against Japanese invaders, commemorations that come at a time of tense relations with Tokyo.
A senior Communist Party leader, Li Changchun, attended a ceremony at a war memorial near the Marco Polo Bridge southwest of Beijing, where Japanese soldiers attacked Chinese forces on July 7, 1937.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Japan after an APEC summit ends in South Korea on November 20, 2005, a presidential aide said Thursday.
"The Russian president and Japanese prime minister agreed today that the Russian president would make a working visit to Japan after the APEC summit in South Korea, i.e. after November 20, 2005," Sergei Prikhodko said
Japan on Thursday voiced reservations at suggestions that the G8 group of industrial nations could be transformed into a G9, including China.
Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman Chiba Akira said at a Group of Eight summit in Scotland that Tokyo "does not have a clear cut position" on China's membership of the exclusive club of the world's top economies.
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Japan moved a step closer toward its goal of becoming a permanent United Nations Security Council member Thursday, as the so-called Group of Four nations -- Japan, Germany, India and Brazil -- submitted a resolution on the matter to the U.N. Secretariat. The following are some basic facts on the UNSC bid:
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said on Thursday his country had no plans to withdraw its forces from Iraq despite a series of bomb attacks in London.
"This is not an issue that is directly linked," Koizumi said when asked whether he thought the attacks would have any impact on Japan's military deployment to Iraq.
Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wang Yi called on the Japanese business community Friday to launch preparations for negotiations on a Japan-China free trade agreement
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Japan plans to raise the topic of the abduction of its citizens by North Korean agents decades ago during six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear arms programme, Japan's top government spokesman said on Monday.
North Korea said on Saturday it had agreed to return to six-way talks that include South Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the United States on its nuclear arms programmes in the week of July 25, after a break of more than one year.
Japan’s chances of securing a permanent seat on the UN Security Council are improving, the Foreign Ministry warned Monday.
A high-ranking ministry official said there was an increasing possibility that a resolution for Security Council reform submitted by the so-called G4 states last week will pass. The G4 groups Japan, Germany, Brazil and India, all of which aspire to a permanent seat on the council. Their reform plan, submitted the on July 6, would boost Security Council membership from 15 to 25 and add six new permanent members.
Japan on Monday welcomed the planned resumption of the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programs, while thanking China for its efforts in helping Pyongyang back to the negotiating table.
"Japan welcomes the decision to hold the fourth round of the six-party talks in the week of July 25 in Beijing," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hatsuhisa Takashima said in a statement. "Japan highly appreciates the efforts made by the parties concerned, especially by China, which as the chair coordinated the efforts." The spokesman also affirmed that the six-party talks are the best framework to bring about a peaceful solution to North Korean nuclear issues, from such viewpoints as peace and stability in Northeast Asia and an international non-proliferation effort.
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Japan plans to raise the topic of the abduction of its citizens by North Korean agents decades ago during six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear arms programme, Japan's top government spokesman said on Monday.
North Korea said on Saturday it had agreed to return to six-way talks that include South Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the United States on its nuclear arms programmes in the week of July 25, after a break of more than one year.
Japan's economy is bouncing back at a "moderate" clip, the government said in a monthly report Tuesday, amid signs that businesses are becoming more optimistic about the near future.
The assessment, compiled by the Cabinet Office, used identical language from a report in June, when the government upgraded its economic outlook for the first time in nearly a year.
Japan and the United States urged Pyongyang on Tuesday to abandon nuclear weapons or risk failure in six-nation talks, while South Korea offered to supply its reclusive neighbor with electricity in return for a deal.
Communist North Korea has agreed to return to negotiations on its nuclear ambitions with the United States, host China, Japan, South Korea and Russia. The meeting — the first since June 2004 — will be held in the week of July 25.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Wednesday, "as a private citizen", he has presented a paper lantern for the summer ritual of the notorious Yasukuni Shrine, which began in the same day.
The Otawara education board in Tochigi Prefecture, about 120 kilometers north of Tokyo, adopted a right-wing middle school history textbook that Korea and China see as distorting history. Otawara is the first municipal government to adopt the controversial textbook to be used at seven municipal middle schools from next April.
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The Indian stock market has exploded recently, with the benchmark Sensitive Index doubling in the past two years. And the resolution in mid-June of the family feud between the heirs to Reliance Group, the Indian conglomerate whose uncertain future had weighed down the market, has sent the Mumbai Sensex index to a new record. In late June, the index broke through the 7,000 mark for the first time and has now pushed past 7,300.
The general Indian economic growth story aside, the country's stocks have been supported by an avalanche of cash from retail investors worldwide who have become zealous about India.
Russia is not going to stay indifferent to the fact that "certain politicians continue poisoning the political climate on the continent
The European Parliament has slapped Russia in the face again. The chairman of the committee for international affairs of the State Duma, Konstantin Kosachev, said that European deputies passed a special resolution on July 7th, which contained an appeal to the Russian administration to return so-called northern territories of the Far East to Japan. According to the document, the Soviet Union "occupied" the territories at the end of WWII, and they still remain under Russia's "occupation."
Japan on Thursday approved a request by Teikoku Oil Co. to drill for natural gas in the East China Sea along a disputed sea border with China, prompting Beijing to warn about the possibility of worsening ties.
Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Shoichi Nakagawa said Tokyo would allow test drilling east of the line that Japan considers its sea boundary with China _ a demarcation that Beijing disputes. The permit lasts for two years but can be extended for a total of eight years.
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Japan yesterday gave a company permission to test-drill a potentially lucrative gas field in the East China Sea contested with Beijing, after talks on the dispute broke down as ties deteriorate.
China immediately protested against the decision to let Teikoku Oil be the first Japanese company to explore the waters in the East China Sea, where Beijing began drilling in 2003.
A festering territorial dispute between China and Japan threatened to escalate on Friday after Beijing condemned Tokyo's decision to allow a Japanese company to explore for gas in the East China Sea.
"This act by Japan is a grave provocation and violation of China's sovereign rights," a Chinese Foreign Ministry official in charge of Asian affairs, Cui Tiankai, told the Japanese ambassador to China, Chihiro Atsumi, who had been summoned to receive the official protest, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The Chinese Embassy in Tokyo also lodged a formal protest with the Japanese Foreign Ministry, Xinhua reported.
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South Korea on Monday voiced opposition to Japan's idea to raise the Japanese citizens kidnapping issue in the upcoming six-party nuclear talks.
"Clearly, the purpose of the six-party talks is to resolve the ... nuclear issue so that other issues can be consulted on through different channels, including bilateral ones," a ranking South Korean official was quoted by South Korean Yonhap News Agency as saying on Monday.
Brazil, Germany, Indian and Japan said they cannot win permanent seats on an expanded United Nations Security Council without the African Union's 53 votes, after opening negotiations today over a competing African proposal to enlarge the UN's main policy-making body.
Brazil, Germany, India and Japan, calling themselves the Group of Four, formed a coalition to seek permanent seats on the council as part of a resolution to expand the 15-member panel to 25. They said during the past month that they had the two-thirds majority of the General Assembly, consisting of all 191 UN member governments, needed to win adoption.
Japanese companies are finding it increasingly hard to pass on higher oil costs to their customers, according to a new government survey that bodes ill for this year's corporate results
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China's Communist Party has said local authorities must organise activities to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War Two, a move that comes as tensions with former foe Japan are on the rise.
The 1937-45 Sino-Japanese war has been a major source of legitimacy for the Communist Party, but it has been accused of using the memories of the conflict to whip up already widespread anti-Japanese sentiment.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will offer financial support starting in 2006 to help stabilize the output of wind power electricity, the Asahi Shimbun reported Wednesday.
Because the power output varies depending on wind strength, electric companies have been reluctant to build plants for wind power electricity.
Bioethanol, a type of alcohol made from plants, is used in the United States and Europe as a "clean" alternative automotive fuel, but until now Japan has not taken steps to introduce it.
During combustion bioethanol does emit carbon dioxide -- which is blamed for global warming -- but its use is expected to reduce overall emissions.
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Japanese oil executives fear the government could bow to U.S. pressure, giving China an advantage in developing Iranian oil.
The Japanese company Inpex heads a consortium that has agreed to invest $1 billion in the first six-year phase of developing the Azadegan oil field. But the second phase is still up for grabs, Japan Times reports.
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Japan’s population fell by 31,000 in the first six months of this year, raising the prospect that the number of people in the world’s second biggest economy may start shrinking two years earlier than expected.
In the six months to June, the health ministry reported that the number of deaths totalled 568,671, against 537,637 births.
Japan's trade surplus probably shrank for a fourth month in July as surging oil prices pushed up the import bill of the world's second-biggest economy, economists said.
The trade surplus probably fell 33 percent to 756.7 billion yen ($6.9 billion), according to the median forecast of 25 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. The Ministry of Finance is scheduled to release the report at 8:50 a.m. tomorrow
Japan's drive to gain a permanent seat on the UN Security Council is still alive, a Japanese UN delegate said Monday, dismissing press reports that Tokyo planned to give up its bid for the time being after failing to win enough backing.
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Japan’s population fell by 31,000 in the first six months of this year, raising the prospect that the number of people in the world’s second biggest economy may start shrinking two years earlier than expected.
In the six months to June, the health ministry reported that the number of deaths totalled 568,671, against 537,637 births.
The silver lining (pun intended) here is of course that declinging population will need less energy imports.
Japan's trade surplus probably shrank for a fourth month in July as surging oil prices pushed up the import bill of the world's second-biggest economy, economists said.
The trade surplus probably fell 33 percent to 756.7 billion yen ($6.9 billion), according to the median forecast of 25 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. The Ministry of Finance is scheduled to release the report at 8:50 a.m. tomorrow
Or could Japan be the best candidate to win the "Fark worst by PO" -award.
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:32 am Post subject: Re: Japan
MrBean wrote:
Or could Japan be the best candidate to win the "Fark worst by PO" -award.
my hunch is "no" but it's a very difficult question to answer.
Japan is Fark on a couple of fronts:
1. almost all oil/ng is imported
2. very heavily reliant on imported food and petroleum-based agriculture
but the big population centres have the most efficient public transport networks in the world, so car dependency is much lower than certain empires i can think of...
i think Japan will have serious problems, but there will surely be places much worse off...like the UK when North sea oil prodn falls of a cliff in a few years time...
or Indonesia, now...
in the end, you have to remember that oil/ng are not going to disappear overnight, but they are going to get really expensive compared with their recent prices.
so how Fark you are depends on how much you can afford to pay to keep things going with some semblance of normalcy...i suppose. _________________ Full Spectrum Disorder, by Stan Goff.
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