The question for persons interested not only in a profitable short term trade but in the longer term growth and health of the Japanese stock market is inevitably about the listed companies themselves.

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Most economists would agree that the ability for subscribers to avoid directed advertising increases the cost to all subscribers because the value of that subscription list has been reduced because it now consists of a smaller population of persons who may be interested in a product based on their interest in the contents of a subscription.

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States have an obligation to create and maintain adequate measures at the national level, in particular in the fields of education, health and social support, for the promotion and protection of the rights of persons in vulnerable sectors of their populations and to ensure the participation of those among them who are interested in finding a solution to their own problems.

UNESCO: Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action