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...leaders say they want to boost Japan's nonindustrial economy by lowering taxes paid by local businesses, developing new environmental technologies and creating jobs in health care and agriculture. Toshihiro Ihori, an economics professor at Tokyo University, adds that offering incentives to attract skilled foreign labor and multinational companies could produce more investment and boost domestic economic activity, helping to revitalize moribund commercial sectors that for too long have been sheltered from competition...
...Balance the Bureaucracy Tokyo's bureaucrats have long called the shots on everything from budget formulation to foreign policy. The bureaucracy can be virtually impervious to change partly because its members are not accountable to elected officials - there's no personnel overhaul with a change in administration. The DPJ has vowed to implement some checks and balances by expanding the power of the Prime Minister's office and the Cabinet. But it's a delicate job that could easily go sour. (See pictures of Japan in 1989 and Japan...
...raised concerns that the DPJ might tinker with sensitive issues like the relocation of American military bases in Japan, affecting the two nations' longstanding security pact. But DPJ leaders, who have little experience in international diplomacy, know they can't afford to upset the alliance, the cornerstone of Japanese foreign policy...
...word immigration doesn't appear in the DPJ's platform - the subject remains a touchy one for insular Japan. But the party has a plan to allow more foreign workers into the country to help offset the shrinking labor pool. DPJ lawmakers also want to improve the lives of younger Japanese workers by curbing the hiring of temporary workers by manufacturers, a widespread practice that over the last decade or so has relegated many youth to second-class-citizen status. While older workers hang on to the best jobs, younger workers stuck in temp positions are denied many company...
Here are the final figures as of Sept. 7 for the Top 10 summer movies - each with domestic gross, foreign gross and worldwide total, respectively - in millions...