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Woody Harrelson took a break from filming Transsiberian in Lithuania to talk about Nanking, a documentary about Japan's 1937 invasion of China...
...main focus of the Feb. 9 Group of Seven industrial-nations meeting will be Japan's refusal to raise interest rates--weakening the yen and creating tough competition for European exporters...
...than the awards, though, is the rare mix of ambition and imagination on display in the Mexicans' films. Babel, written by Oscar nominee Guillermo Arriaga, is a sprawling story of chance and destiny; a random gunshot from a reckless Moroccan boy triggers anguished events in Mexico, the U.S. and Japan. Children of Men conjures up a future world with no future: the human race has become infertile, and anarchy blankets the globe. Pan's Labyrinth burrows into the past, to Franco's Spain in 1944, and into a dark wonderland of fierce and magical creatures that offers escape...
Tatsuro Sasaya lives by Newton's Third Law of Motion. "If people go one way, I go the other way," he says, which might be the only explanation for his decision to move back to his economically depressed hometown of Yubari on Japan's cold northern island of Hokkaido. When the 49-year-old Sasaya was growing up here, it was a thriving city of over 100,000 people, most working in the coalmines scattered throughout the surrounding mountains. But by the time Sasaya had left for college in Tokyo, the mines were closing and many of the townsfolk...
...Yubari is a very Japanese story: Since the postwar era, Tokyo has channeled massive subsidies to its underperforming hinterland. That formula secured the government reliable votes, but it also enabled rural people to enjoy higher income levels, sparing Japan from the social inequality that has beset such rapidly growing neighbors as China. But the policy was sustainable only as long as Tokyo had budget surpluses to burn. Today, Japan may be the world's second-richest nation, but its public debt that is more than 1.5 times the size of its GDP, the highest in the developed world...