The best example of this is Japan's continuing passion for protecting small- and medium-sized businesses.
This being Japan, the four candidates, all young, were running under different political party affiliations.
And get this, Japan is expected to lose 40% of its working age population by 2050.
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"Economic data deteriorated sharply from September, and this means Japan is already in recession, " he added.
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This being Japan, politicians will no doubt try to carry on talking about reform, instead of doing it.
This week Japan authorized passenger airlines to resume flying the embattled aircraft in the country starting Friday, officials said.
And this week Japan's Diet (parliament) passed a law outlining how a referendum might take place on amending the constitution.
This year Japan's parliament is expected to relax the commercial paper rules.
With the looming privatization of its postal savings bank (and let's have it be a real privatization, with open competition for savings), this is Japan's moment.
Now that the United States government has taken that decision first, in the form of legislation enacted in 1999 and more recently with the election of a President committed to defending America and her forces and allies overseas against this threat Japan should follow suit at once.
This summer Japan Airlines began installing NFC equipment at its major hubs in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and Okinawa, becoming the first airline globally to enable smart phones with NFC chips to act as boarding passes for passengers flying domestically, relieving travellers of the need to fumble with an airline app or the relevant email to find the barcode currently used on mobile boarding passes.
And for the United States, the problem is that this threatens the nature of the American relationship with South Korea, and also with its complicated relationship with China, because the more the United States emphasizes the significance of Japan as an ally, the more this divide between Japan and its neighbors becomes a big issue.
This, said Masaru Hayami, the governor of the Bank of Japan this week, is his biggest concern for the economy.
For Japan this means an unwinding of the structures and alignments of the current U.S.-Japan security relationship.
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Microsoft took when it launched a Twitter campaign shortly after the devastating natural disasters in Japan earlier this year by linking the aid it was donating to Japan to the number of retweets the Bing brand would get.
Still, devastation of the magnitude seen in Japan this month may take longer to clean up.
"This proposal shows Japan's true intention is to expand its whaling operations, " said Gladman.
And the one thing I'm sure of is that this is not Japan in the 1990s.
Burmese president Thein Sein is scheduled to make a five-day visit to Japan this weekend.
And Okamura predicts more power may needed this winter in Japan, where many heaters are electric.
This time, Japan does not want to conquer the world, but to learn from it.
To overcome this obstacle, Japan has sought to produce cars and electronics products directly in overseas markets.
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This happened in Japan, where low-energy fluorescent light now accounts for more than 95% of residential lighting.
Japan is the second largest single-country economy, with China close behind (and expected to pass Japan this year).
Put it like this, when Japan went after General Motors, the latter seemed to hold all the cards.
He returned to Japan this week to meet investors to try and head a turnaround at the company.
At a preview event for Leaf this week in Japan, Nissan shared the likely real-world range under different scenarios.
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