For whatever reasons, more and more Japanese men and women are choosing to be single, and all of their very personal choices are gradually shaping the future of Japan's entire society.
Furthermore, wide and viable energy policy measures in which the whole Japanese society would participate, in a responsible and devoted manner, over sustainable consumption, are essential for the future of Japan.
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So whether you see the blossoms or the vomit, a half full cup of sake or a half empty can of beer, the future of Japan is in the hands of the Japanese, not the New Economy gurus we read about in TIME, Newsweek and Fortune.
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Last, but not the least, as stated in the shared vision it is important to boost exchanges among next generation youth in the interest of the future of the Japan-U.S. alliance.
We're not really sure which is worse, that the future has already reached Japan, or that Japan has already out-designed everyone.
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Whatever one makes of the FS-X deal, I think it obvious that it is neither in the interest of American industry or security to have such an approach become the norm in future programmatic collaboration with Japan.
And so future numbers coming out of Japan in the medium term are likely to be less spectacular.
The plane would be too expensive, for one thing, and it may not best meet Japan's future defense needs.
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Japan, the future recipient of most of the gas from Sakhalin, will now also find itself at Gazprom's mercy.
They urge the Japanese government to carry out a more thorough assessment of radioactive contamination across Japan before considering future decontamination plans.
In the paper the researchers sought to answer the question: What constraints will the greying of Japan place on future fiscal policy?
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With demand from America and elsewhere likely to remain weak for at least the immediate future, that will leave Japan dependent on its feeble domestic economy.
The Greenies were yelling about outlawing sport utility vehicles, U.S. Congressmen were demanding 17 kilometers per liter, and everyone thought that those hybrid vehicles from Japan were the future.
She worked for several years as a translator in Japan, but the future, she decided, was America.
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This Sunday, June 25th, Japan votes on its future in a general election.
They are all, I perhaps need not say, exceptionally thoughtful and sincere people, deeply concerned about Japan and what its future holds for their children.
Although Japan is not running towards its future, he says, it is at least walking there.
In Japan's high-tech future, flashy software engineers may not be as important as those anonymous Ota craftsmen who quietly make good ideas come true.
As to who is or would buy JGBs, the answer for the present and foreseeable near term future is: the Bank of Japan.
But if the Bank of Japan takes a back seat in future, other buyers will have to be tempted into the market by means of higher interest rates.
They need reliable electric power now and they know that they will not get it under the present energy rationing that exists in Japan or in any non-nuclear future possible in the remaining years of this decade.
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The switching of his investment has cast doubt over the future of Sauber's other driver this year, Japan's Kamui Kobayashi -- who has no major sponsor.
Japan would like to be involved in any future talks, as would South Korea and Russia, which shares a short stretch of border with North Korea.
Though Mr Yosano, the chief secretary, is a firm advocate of raising the consumption tax to plug Japan's budget deficits and pay for future pensions, Mr Abe appears in no mood to launch such a debate.
What if the country's future bears more resemblance to the past of another country: Japan?
What does the future hold for U.S. companies doing business with Japan?
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Japan is facing two stark questions: How can future society function efficiently and productively when so many of its members are old?
But crude extrapolation of the past is a poor predictor of the future: recall the forecasts in the mid-1980s that Japan was set to become the world's largest economy.
Future trade could be undertaken through this strictly controlled system to Japan or any other interested trading partner that complied with CITES' criteria and met the same levels of control.
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