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...Hatoyama has thrown those policies in reverse. Critical of what he has called U.S.-led "market fundamentalism," Hatoyama has rejected Koizumi's now unpopular market reforms and is steering the economy toward something akin to a European-style welfare state with a wider government-funded social safety net. Though Hatoyama has continued to stress the crucial nature of the U.S.-Japan alliance and his friendly relationship with President Barack Obama - "We have come to call each other Barack and Yukio," he said during Obama's November visit to Tokyo - he has also backed away from policies that Washington views...
...Japanese public's desire for change goes far beyond the realm of foreign relations. They ushered Hatoyama into office to breathe new life into an ossified political system that proved incapable of reversing the slow-motion decline of Japan's economy and global influence, a phenomenon the Japanese call "Japan passing." Thirty years ago, Japan was much like the China of today, an up-and-coming global power with an economy that was the envy of the world. Japanese companies such as Sony, Toyota and Honda shoved aside their competition from the West. By the late 1980s, Americans came...
Attendees pressed up against the stage and against each other in an effort to catch a glimpse of the artist, who encouraged audience enthusiasm with his “I say Kid, you say Cudi” call-and-response...
...fell in the better 50 percent,” Forberg said of the forecast that predicted a 50 percent chance of rain, adding, “I think we made a good call being cautious with the food...
...Notable student band Chester French, Natural Progression, the Blanks and Call The Cops...