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...Strengthen the U.S.-Japan alliance. That's our China policy." HISAHIKO OKAZAKI, foreign-policy expert and ally of Shinzo Abe, the man likely to be Japan's next Prime Minister, suggesting that an Abe administration would take a tough line on China...
...seem like it in the pedestrian-choked streets of Tokyo, but Japan is about to get a lot less crowded. Thanks to a fertility rate that's dropped to 1.25 children per woman-well below the 2.1 needed to keep a population stable-the number of Japanese is set to peak next year and then fall rapidly to 64 million, or half the current population, by 2100. It's not just about elbow room: fewer babies mean fewer young, productive workers to keep Japan's economy afloat, while the proportional increase in the elderly population will severely strain social services...
...break out the cigars yet. Demographers say many of these new mothers are the thirtysomething daughters of Japan's postwar baby boomers, belatedly settling down to marry and have kids now that the economy has finally revived. Their late start means they're unlikely to produce the large broods Japan needs. Ryuichi Kaneko, a researcher at the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, says there's no escaping this demographic dearth: "We have a small number of young people now, so even if each woman has a slightly greater number of children than before, there wouldn...
...looking for something far more elusive than any quasar. Tonight he intended to bag something most astronomers consider next to impossible: the most distant galaxy ever seen--and not the farthest by just a little bit. The current record for distance, held by another giant Mauna Kea observatory, Japan's Subaru telescope, is for a galaxy whose light started its journey to Earth a billion years or so after the Big Bang. But Ellis and Stark suspect they have found not one but six galaxies from an astonishing half a billion years earlier still. Tonight's run could confirm...
...moved in 1986 to Japan, where he began his Projects for Extraterrestrials, artworks designed to be large and loud enough to communicate with outer space. Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters, for example, laid a trail of fire more than six miles beyond the wall's western terminus. Another project, Transient Rainbow, celebrated the Museum of Modern Art's temporary relocation from Manhattan to Queens with a seven-color arc of fireworks over New York City's East River...