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...midst of all this rich success, did 67.6% of Japanese respond to a recent Cabinet Office survey by saying that they felt anxious about their daily lives-the highest angst level recorded since the poll began nearly 40 years ago? Perhaps because they're looking beyond the next club opening or quarterly report, toward a national future that is anything but certain. Despite the country's economic recovery, Japan is still pinned beneath $6.9 trillion in public debt, and that's 1.5 times the nation's GDP, the worst ratio in the industrialized world. A widening gap between rich...
...income disparity that more than 90% of Japanese believe is a growing problem, according to a recent poll by the broadcaster NHK. Although Japan has never fully realized its self-image as ichioku sochuryu (the nation of middle-class people), the income gap is getting worse because the rich are getting richer while the poor are actually losing ground. According to the O.E.C.D., Japan is now second to the U.S. among developed countries in terms of relative poverty-the proportion of people living on 50% less than the median income. The gap is readily apparent in spending patterns. The only...
...when the celebration moved to Oscar Niemeyer's sambadrome in 1984, it marked the beginning of the end for the spontaneous carnival of the people. Authorities began selling tickets to what had been a free show, pricing out many. Corporate clients reserved large parts of the arena for the rich, famous and, this being Brazil, beautiful. Around the same time samba schools themselves moved away from their roots in Rio's poor communities, giving awards to sambas sung by outsiders and adopting themes sponsored by multinationals. (Last year's champion won with an appeal for Latin American unity that...
...example, Obama could follow the lead of Democratic Senator Jim Webb, whose response to President Bush’s 2007 State of the Union address garnered broad appeal. Both his powerful populist message on the growing class divide between the very rich and the rest of America and his strong condemnation of the war in Iraq pleased liberal Democrats, but also very likely drew the attention of moderate Democrats and Independents. Such rhetoric takes political courage, but since Obama’s election to the Senate, increased media attention has made him more cautious, turning him toward consensus-building messages...
...Heart-Shaped Box is about a very rich and very washed-up rock star named Judas Coyne. At 54 Coyne is jaded and cruel and bored and emotionally shut-down, living in rural splendor in a converted farmhouse with his various disposable goth girlfriends, his recording days long behind him. He likes to collect gruesome artifacts like snuff films. "When Danny Wooten, his personal assistant, told him there was a ghost for sale on the Internet and asked did he want to buy it, Jude didn't even need to think...