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...stand at a new starting point.' HU JINTAO, President of China, after his arrival in Japan on May 6 for the first China-Japan summit in Tokyo in a decade. Relations between the two Asian neighbors have long been strained by historical and security issues...
...happily switch to margarine.' TSUYOSHI HASHIMOTO, of Japan's Agriculture Ministry, after the government ordered Japanese dairies to increase butter production by up to 20% because of a shortage of the popular staple...
...past, people like Nisaburo and Hiroko might have chosen to live out their lives alone. But as Japan's society ages, attitudes about love and remarriage late in life are changing. Increasingly, divorcees, widows and widowers and never-marrieds in their 50s, 60s and 70s are finding companionship, defining for themselves a more mature vision of happily-ever-after. In 2006, three times more men and nearly five times more women in their 60s and 70s married for at least the second time compared with 20 years before, according to government statistics...
...post their profiles. "Before, people used to be embarrassed. And some still ask me, 'Am I too old? Is it O.K.?'" says Ikeda. "But I think that more older people are realizing that life is supposed to be enjoyable - not lonely." About 17% of the matchmaking clientele in Japan is over 50 years old, according to Ai Senior, and seniors' market share has more than doubled over the past three years...
...only law enforcement that has had to get used to new times. Traditional organized crime groups like the Sicilian mafia, New York's Five Families and even the powerful Yakuza syndicates in Japan have had difficulty adjusting to this rapacious new model of international crime. Old patterns of family and clan ties have given way to networks whose obsessive focus is on making money - lots of it, as quickly as possible. The global integration of capital markets, coupled with the fall of communism, has triggered an enormous explosion of international financial flows, which has both facilitated criminal behavior, as trillions...