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...album. I love her music so much and have been a fan for many years. I even traveled to Austin, where she lives, to write with her. And Amanda Palmer I've been friends with for years. We've been on tour together a few times, so she's sort of an obvious choice...
...resign after appearing to be drunk (he said he was suffering the after-effects of cold medication) at a press conference during an important international meeting. "Typically recessions were good for the LDP," says Jesper Koll, president and CEO of Tantallon Research Japan, "but this time around it is sort of pathetic. The government has no credibility. Any policy that comes out now gets greeted not with just a yawn but with utter indifference...
...Others are not so sure. Gerald Curtis, professor of politics at Columbia University, who has studied and written about Japan for many years, recognizes that the DPJ wants to strengthen the safety net, but wonders if it has the determination to launch the sort of stimulus package that Barack Obama got through the U.S. Congress in a matter of weeks. Ozawa can come across as all politics, "his own Karl Rove," as Curtis puts it, rather than one who thinks through policies carefully...
...company Nishimatsu Construction. The donations are alleged to have been funneled through Ozawa's political fund. In a March 7 interview with TIME, Ozawa said that he was "very surprised" by the arrest, and that the case involved merely "errors in the statement of political fundraising records" of the sort that in the past required only a "kind of correction." The investigation has since widened to include alleged donations from Nishimatsu to LDP politicians, but the main focus so far has been on the DPJ. Ozawa says he will not step down from the party chairmanship; nonetheless, a few days...
...which it built both its postwar prosperity and social stability is broken. Japan's spectacularly successful export-oriented industries were responsible for creating the world's second largest economy, and their lifetime-employment policies, with generous benefits, obviated the need for a comprehensive social safety net of the sort familiar to Western Europeans. Then came the bubble. After financial markets were liberalized in the 1980s, Japan went on a debt-fueled binge that made modern Americans look as thrifty as Amish farmers. The stock market soared into the stratosphere, and property prices went so haywire that it was common...