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...alliance that outlined the most sweeping revisions to U.S. base deployments and the most far-reaching strategic understandings between the two countries in more than a decade. The report confirmed the withdrawal of 7,000 U.S. troops from Okinawa (Japan has long sought to reduce the basing burden on the islands); the relocation of the U.S. Army's I Corps headquarters from Washington state to Camp Zama, an hour outside of Tokyo; the establishment of joint U.S.-Japanese command of the Yokota Air Base; and a pledge by both countries to increase military cooperation, intelligence gathering and training...
...Honma, a professor of international law at Hosei University, says the U.S. continues to underestimate Japan's ambivalence about its military. "The U.S. is struggling to maintain its role as the world's keeper of democracy and liberalization, and they're asking Japan to take a bit of the burden off them," says Honma. "But there's a gap between how the U.S. and Japan see their own military forces-their goals and purposes-and the Japan-U.S. alliance...
...position of being dependent on inadequate government benefits and unreliable company pension plans. A system based on privatized Social Security and defined-contribution plans such as 401(k)s would be less expensive, allowing businesses to better compete in the global economy. Granted, that shifts more of the retirement burden to the individual worker, but that's what we used to call being self reliant. DOUG HART Spokane, Wash...
...corporations did not provide defined-benefit pensions out of the goodness of their hearts. They did it because their workers were united in unions powerful enough to demand these benefits. With unions weak and shrinking, corporations feel free to discard what they regard as an onerous burden. A good legal reform would be to treat a pension obligation as a preferred creditor in any corporate bankruptcy proceeding or give pension trusts the first claim to all corporate assets. CHARLIE ROSENBERG Milwaukee...
...Jesse Gordon to libertarian candidate Bill Hees, have made property tax reform the centerpiece of their campaigns. The candidates point to local anger over a 2004 property tax reassessment that sent some homeowners’ taxes skyrocketing. But the City Council moved in September to lessen the burden on homeowners by tapping into the city’s budget surplus. And incumbents have also come out in favor of easing property taxes for residents.With incumbents and challengers sharing similar platforms, no opposition candidate has emerged as distinctly as DeBergalis did two years ago, “It would be easier...