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...shoguns during Japan's Meiji transformation in the late 19th century. Yet the burakumin still exist on the fringes of this mostly homogenous society, and fight the age-old battles of discrimination. "It's still a taboo," says Hiroshi Kanto, organizer of a burakumin rights group in Kyoto. "It probably always will...
...Japan. How the 75-year-old Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) elder finessed a heritage that could have been a liability offers insight into what motivates him and how he operates. From his first campaign for a seat on the town council of Sonobe, a rural town west of Kyoto, Nonaka did not deny his burakumin ties. He didn't advertise them, either. Instead, he adroitly brought himself out of the closet, in a pair of speeches early in his national political career. Nobody could "out" Nonaka because he had outed himself...
...past 45 years. Nonaka is an old-fashioned pol, having honed his skills as mayor of small-town Sonobe. He first ran for the town council in 1950, at the age of 25, and was elected mayor eight years later. In 1967, he was elected to the Kyoto prefectural government, and immediately butted heads with the long-time governor, a communist, Torazo Ninagawa. Nonaka succeeded in getting Ninagawa voted out of office in 1978, and shortly thereafter the LDP rewarded him with a seat in the national parliament's lower house...
...Many Europeans believe that Bush hasn't made clear exactly what he's opposed to. Although Bush's criticisms concern the form of the Kyoto accord, it's clear that his objections are more basic. Many Europeans believe that the real objection may not be the Kyoto Protocol itself, as much as the very idea of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions...
...surely reducing it to a problem of the Bush administration is misleading. After all, President Clinton may have signed off on Kyoto, but he only did so safe in the knowledge that the Senate had rejected it 95-0. And in the negotiations on implementation, the Clinton administration was trying to get the Europeans to agree that the U.S. would actually have to make no real cuts because it has so many forests. So isn't Bush simply speaking more bluntly and honestly than his predecessor...