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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:51:05 GMT |
Curfew imposed after quake
A CURFEW has been imposed in Christchurch, New Zealand, after a major earthquake caused extensive damage in the nation's second-largest city, Sky News Australia reported today. |
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:42:27 GMT |
Australian among plane crash dead
AN Australian tourist is among nine people to have died in a light plane crash near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps, police said today. |
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:34:36 GMT |
Nine dead in NZ plane crash - report
NINE people died when a plane crashed at a popular New Zealand tourist attraction today, the New Zealand Herald reported citing a spokesman with the St John Ambulance Service. |
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| | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:16:00 GMT |
Dead cat prompts driver's road rampage
A JAPANESE man drove the wrong way down an expressway for 90 kilometres and broke through five police barricades because his cat had died, he told police. |
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| | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:21:00 GMT |
Autopsies for PNG plane crash victims
THE bodies of the four victims of this week's plane crash in Papua New Guinea will be transported to Brisbane for autopsies, after being released by a PNG coroner. |
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| | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:16:00 GMT |
Maid arrested while looking for new job
AN Indonesian maid who went on the run after being accused of murdering her Malaysian employer's baby son has been arrested after coolly lining up an interview for a new job. |
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The latest Central and Sth Pacific news from NEWS.com.au | Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:39:00 GMT |
Colombian army spots US hostages
COLOMBIA'S army has located three US nationals in the hands of Marxist FARC rebels, but has not attempted a rescue, Defence Minister Juan Manuel Santos said today. |
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| | Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:33:00 GMT |
Free hostages, Chavez tells FARC
VENEZUELA'S President Hugo Chavez urged the new leader of the Marxist FARC insurgency in Colombia today to free all its hostages unconditionally, in unusually tough words for Latin America's oldest rebel force. |
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| | Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:33:00 GMT |
City plants roof gardens to fight smog
MEXICO City, one of the world's most polluted capitals, is planting rooftop gardens on public buildings as part of a program to combat global warming. |
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| | Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:25:00 GMT |
Brazil to protect more of Amazon
BRAZILIAN President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, under pressure over his stewardship of the Amazon rainforest, has unveiled plans to create three protected reserves covering an area the size of the US state of Vermont. |
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| | Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:42:00 GMT |
9/11 accused 'ready to be martyrs'
THREE of five alleged plotters in the September 11, 2001 attacks demanded today to be sentenced to death at a US military hearing, saying they had long sought martyrdom. |
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| | Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:08:00 GMT |
9/11 accused chants in court
THE accused al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks stood in a US military court today, sang a chant of praise to Allah and said he would welcome the death penalty. |
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| | Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:12:00 GMT |
Gay soldier AWOL - or victimised
A BRAZILIAN soldier who publicly flaunted his homosexuality has been detained by military police after his dramatic arrest on live television, according to reports. |
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| | Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:42:00 GMT |
Hearing begins for 9/11 accused
FIVE men accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks have appeared in public for the first time in years at the start of a US military hearing at the Guantanamo Bay base. |
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| | Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:23:00 GMT |
Rabbi accused of torturing children
BRAZILIAN police and Interpol have arrested a fugitive rabbi wanted in his native Israel on charges of torturing children in exorcism rites. |
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| | Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:59:00 GMT |
Merchant ships collide
MERCHANT ships from Greece and Malta collided off the coast of Uruguay, dumping fuel oil from one of the vessels, Uruguay's Navy said today. |
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Latest National headlines from nzherald.co.nz | Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:36:41 +1200 |
Man threatens Sky Tower leap
Police are talking to a man who appears to be threatening to jump from the Sky Tower.Senior Sergeant Matt Rogers told NZPA the man was doing the Skywalk - a 1.2m-wide walkway around the Sky Tower, 192m above the ground."The... |
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| | Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:19:56 +1200 |
Latest news: Christchurch earthquake
12.55pm Four schools will be closed in the Canterbury region tomorrow, says the Ministry of Education. Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti, Kaiapoi Borough School, West Melton School and Hillmorton High will not open. 12.43pm Agriculture... |
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| | Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:28:12 +1200 |
Christchurch coming to terms with earthquake
Kiwis are coming to terms with the devastation of one of their proudest cities.The 7.1 magnitude earthquake caused terror across Canterbury, damaged nearly 100 buildings and tore apart water pipes, sewerage, roads and footpaths.Mayor... |
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| | Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:37:03 +1200 |
Auckland motorway reopening ahead of schedule
The revamped southbound lanes of the southern motorway will reopen ahead of schedule today, the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA).The process of lifting the motorway closure has already started, with a view to fully reopening... |
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| | Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:24:28 +1200 |
Historic Christchurch home survives earthquake
It's good news and bad news for Paddy Snowdon of Linwood, Christchurch.His huge historic house on Linwood Ave is standing but damaged - he reckons it's the oldest brick house in Christchurch.The good news is that he is a demolition... |
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| | Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:53:12 +1200 |
The scariest earthquake of my life
It was just supposed to be a short 24 hour business trip to Christchurch... but the 7.1 quake that devastated parts of the city changed all that. As I sit at Christchurch airport waiting to see if my flight will still go ahead... |
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| | Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:30:55 +1200 |
Promises of quake aid surge in
Promises of aid have started coming in after a massive earthquake hit Canterbury early yesterday morning, causing billions of dollars of damage, cutting water and power, and leaving many forced out of their homes after their houses... |
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| | Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:00:00 +1200 |
Second rape trial
An Olympic athlete will stand trial for a second time on charges of raping his ex wife. The sportsman, who has name suppression, will face two counts of rape and one of male assaults female at a trial at the High Court in Auckland... |
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| | Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:30:00 +1200 |
Moa mamas
Scientists have found proof that the female moa was such a big bird, and her eggs' shells were so thin, that if she sat on the eggs, they would have broken. Auckland University's Dr Craig Millar said the moa's fragile eggs, coupled... |
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Cathedral farewell
An entrepreneur who was crushed to death by his ride-on mower was farewelled at St Patrick's Cathedral in Auckland on Friday. Peter Bassett, who founded Laser Electrical, died at his Paroa Bay property in the Bay of Islands last... |
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All the news, sports and feature stories from The Japan Times | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:10:00 PDT |
Hat trick by Defoe gives England win
WEMBLEY, England (AP) Jermain Defoe scored a hat trick as England opened European Championship qualifying on Friday by coasting to a 4-0 victory over Bulgaria in a display of attacking efficiency missing during a woeful World Cup campaign.
Defoe's first goal into an unguarded net came just three minutes into England's first competitive match since being eliminated by Germany in the second round in South Africa.
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:11:00 PDT |
Poll: Local assembly members back Kan
A nearly 2-to-1 ratio of local assembly members who can vote in the upcoming Democratic Party of Japan leadership election favor Prime Minister Naoto Kan over his rival, Ichiro Ozawa, a survey showed Saturday.
The survey covered 2,382 local assembly members qualified to vote in the Sept. 14 DPJ presidential election and obtained results from 1,430 of them. Of the respondents, 920, or 65 percent, support Kan, and 510, or 35 percent, back Ozawa. The votes of local assembly members will be counted as 100 points.
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:12:00 PDT |
Chickens at (almost) every turn
Go wherever you will in the world but you'll never be far from a chicken.
Certainly, the only inhabited places on the planet where I haven't seen chickens running around somewhere have been in the Arctic. There were lots of ptarmigans there mind you, but no chickens (except for dismembered ones in the new supermarkets).
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:13:00 PDT |
Fertility issue pregnant with discord
In 2004, Diet lawmaker Seiko Noda wrote a book titled "Watashi wa Umitai" ("I Want to Give Birth"), which chronicled her years of infertility treatments and the subsequent pregnancy that ended in miscarriage. Two years later she ended her six-year relationship with fellow politician Yosuke Tsuruho, who in the book was portrayed as being against the treatments.
Though Noda always referred to Tsuruho as her "husband," they were never technically married as they did not share a koseki (family register). Noda belongs to the Liberal Democratic Party and calls herself a conservative, but she is also in favor of bessei (allowing separate names for married couples), which most conservatives strongly oppose because they believe it undermines family unity.
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:15:00 PDT |
Record seventh transplant case seen in month
The family of a man declared brain-dead Saturday in Tohoku has consented to the harvesting of his organs for transplant, marking a record seventh transplant case in a month.
The latest case involves eight transplant recipients, the most from a single donor, not including corneas, according to the Japan Organ Transplant Network, the only entity certified as an intermediary for organ transplants in the nation.
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:16:00 PDT |
Ode to an English rakugo pioneer
Regarding Eric Johnston's Sept. 1 article, " 'Rakugo' pro crosses borders with humor": Having enjoyed English rakugo more than 20 years ago, I was surprised to see no mention of Shijaku Katsura, who performed English Rakugo both in Japan and overseas. Katsura actually helped to launch the career of Bill Crowley and taught many others in the Katsura "family," including perhaps Kaishi Katsura.
I had the pleasure of meeting Shijaku backstage after one of his performances; he was so friendly to everyone. I was truly saddened to hear of his death in 1999. I still have scripts of the shows I attended, a few of which I had proofread for the show's organizers. I also have several of his DVDs, as my wife and children share in my admiration of his skill and unique style.
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:17:00 PDT |
Pacquiao responds to video rant
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) Boxing champion Manny Pacquiao dismissed a derogatory online video posted by Floyd Mayweather Jr., calling it an "uneducated message" and choosing to instead focus on his upcoming fight with Antonio Margarito.
In the widely circulated video, Mayweather goes on an expletive-filled and sometimes racist rant against Pacquiao, the newly elected Congressman from the Philippines who faces Margarito on Nov. 13 at Cowboys Stadium near Dallas.
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:18:00 PDT |
Occupied Korea vs. occupied Japan
I was deeply impressed by the Aug. 29 editorial, "The annexation of Korea," and the Global Perspective editorial featured below it, "Looted articles and atonement" (from The Chosun Ilbo newspaper, Seoul).
When American forces occupied Japan after the Pacific War ended, they did not force Japan to use school textbooks published in the United States or to take English classes conducted by Americans. Occupation forces did not force the Japanese to adopt Christianity or to change their family names to English-sounding ones.
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:19:00 PDT |
Two held in Itochu Finance scam
Tokyo police said Saturday they have arrested two men on suspicion of defrauding Itochu Finance Corp. of some Ą750 million by asking the affiliate of a major trading house to take over a right to receive commission that was entirely fabricated.
The two suspects are Yushin Konno, 42, and his acquaintance, Satoshi Shimizu, 55, according to the police.
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The latest news and business stories from The Japan Times | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:10:00 PDT |
Poll: Local assembly members back Kan
A nearly 2-to-1 ratio of local assembly members who can vote in the upcoming Democratic Party of Japan leadership election favor Prime Minister Naoto Kan over his rival, Ichiro Ozawa, a survey showed Saturday.
The survey covered 2,382 local assembly members qualified to vote in the Sept. 14 DPJ presidential election and obtained results from 1,430 of them. Of the respondents, 920, or 65 percent, support Kan, and 510, or 35 percent, back Ozawa. The votes of local assembly members will be counted as 100 points.
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:11:00 PDT |
Record seventh transplant case seen in month
The family of a man declared brain-dead Saturday in Tohoku has consented to the harvesting of his organs for transplant, marking a record seventh transplant case in a month.
The latest case involves eight transplant recipients, the most from a single donor, not including corneas, according to the Japan Organ Transplant Network, the only entity certified as an intermediary for organ transplants in the nation.
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:12:00 PDT |
Two held in Itochu Finance scam
Tokyo police said Saturday they have arrested two men on suspicion of defrauding Itochu Finance Corp. of some Ą750 million by asking the affiliate of a major trading house to take over a right to receive commission that was entirely fabricated.
The two suspects are Yushin Konno, 42, and his acquaintance, Satoshi Shimizu, 55, according to the police.
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:13:00 PDT |
Summer travelers via Narita up 10%
NARITA, Chiba Pref. (Kyodo) The combined number of people who departed from or entered Japan via Narita airport between July 15 and Aug. 31 grew 9.5 percent over a year earlier to 3.929 million, the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau's branch office in the airport said in a preliminary report.
The number eclipsed the 3.76 million posted in the same summer vacation period of 2008, before the Lehman shock, the Justice Ministry unit said Friday.
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:14:00 PDT |
Minamata exhibition starts at Meiji University
Meiji University and a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization launched an exhibition on Minamata disease Saturday at the university's central Tokyo campus to show how victims of the mercury-poisoning disease have struggled, and what society can learn from the tragedy.
Beneath the portraits of 491 deceased Minamata sufferers that are displayed in the exhibition hall, visitors can follow the history of the disease, officially recognized in 1956 in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, through around 360 exhibited items, including panels and photographs.
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:15:00 PDT |
Hope for missing journalist
KABUL (Kyodo) Two messages were posted Friday on the Twitter account of a Japanese freelance journalist who went missing around April 1 in Afghanistan saying that he is alive but in jail in Archi in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz.
The messages "i am still alive, but in jail" and "here is archi in kunduz. in the jail of commander lativ" were posted under the account of Kosuke Tsuneoka, 41, and were the first messages posted since April 1. It is not known, however, whether Tsuneoka himself posted them.
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:16:00 PDT |
Enemies of mosque tread a dangerous road
WASHINGTON — Opposition to the plans to build a mosque near ground zero, the spot where the World Trade Center's twin towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001, comes in various shades. To their credit, many of the project's opponents have avoided the crass bigotry that is becoming a standard trait of rightwing discourse in the United States.
But even moderate critics of the mosque (actually an Islamic cultural center with a prayer room called Park 51) betray in their arguments two assumptions that are as questionable as they are ingrained in the prevailing public discourse in the United States.
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:17:00 PDT |
Evolving convenience stores
In the quarter century since their introduction to Japan in 1974, convenience stores have become such a fixture that it is hard to imagine life without them. Passing department stores in sales by 2008, outlets now number more than 40,000 throughout Japan. In July their customer count rose by 2.3 percent from a year before to 1.2 billion, as people dropped in to escape the heat and buy cold drinks and ice cream. However, this was the first rise in sales in 14 months and the average amount spent has fallen for 20 months in a row year on year.
As the domestic market nears saturation, major chains are trying to widen their customer base, in particular eyeing the elderly and moving into the pharmaceutical market. With revisions to the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law taking effect in June last year, convenience stores and supermarkets may now sell certain categories of nonprescription drugs such as cold medicines or stomach and headache remedies, but only in the presence of a pharmacist or specially... |
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:18:00 PDT |
Definitions of fatherhood
Fathers and mothers starving their infants, grown children hiding the deaths of parents and living off their pensions, the elderly dying of heat stroke alone in their rooms — recently Japan has seen a wave of incidents casting doubt on the strength of family and community ties.
Particularly shocking was the discovery July 30 of the small bodies of a 3-year-old girl and 1-year-old boy abandoned by their mother in an Osaka apartment. Left with no food or drink from late June, the children were also neglected by local officials who, for reasons of bureaucratic procedure, did not enter the apartment in spite of reports from neighbors of crying children.
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Ozawa says he stakes all on DPJ race
Democratic Party of Japan heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa said Saturday he would stake his political life on serving as the nation's leader, while Prime Minister Naoto Kan reiterated his resolve to revitalize the nation's economy as the two contenders sought to garner support in the party's leadership race.
"I will strive to work for you by staking my entire political life," Ozawa said in a joint event with Kan where they gave campaign speeches in Tokyo's Shinjuku district on Saturday afternoon.
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Chickens at (almost) every turn
Go wherever you will in the world but you'll never be far from a chicken.
Certainly, the only inhabited places on the planet where I haven't seen chickens running around somewhere have been in the Arctic. There were lots of ptarmigans there mind you, but no chickens (except for dismembered ones in the new supermarkets).
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Fertility issue pregnant with discord
In 2004, Diet lawmaker Seiko Noda wrote a book titled "Watashi wa Umitai" ("I Want to Give Birth"), which chronicled her years of infertility treatments and the subsequent pregnancy that ended in miscarriage. Two years later she ended her six-year relationship with fellow politician Yosuke Tsuruho, who in the book was portrayed as being against the treatments.
Though Noda always referred to Tsuruho as her "husband," they were never technically married as they did not share a koseki (family register). Noda belongs to the Liberal Democratic Party and calls herself a conservative, but she is also in favor of bessei (allowing separate names for married couples), which most conservatives strongly oppose because they believe it undermines family unity.
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| | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:18:00 PDT |
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Pro-life drama series; awards of dubious distinctions; CM of the week: Maruchan
On average, 600 abortions are performed in Japan every day. This rarely publicized situation is the subject of a new afternoon soap opera, "Tenshi no Dairinin" ("The Angels' Proxies"; Fuji TV, Mon.-Fri., 1:30 p.m.).
A nonfiction writer named Yoshimura (Atsuko Takahata) is interviewing a woman named Fuyuko (Yoshie Ichige) for a book. Fuyuko belongs to an association of midwives who call themselves Tenshi no Dairinin. Their mission is to persuade women who are considering abortions not to undergo the procedure.
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Lofty tonic in the heat
So what do you do when it's summer in Japan and the heat and humidity have become just plain silly?
You can seek solace in air-conditioned spaces or in the cold depths of fermented beverages. Or you can do as the Brits did in the days of the Raj and head for the hills.
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Glass ceiling has not budged for many of Japan's working women
As we enter the third decade of the "lost decade," there is much to despair about the state of Japan. There has been a sharp increase in the number of working poor, mostly due to the spread of nonregular employment, which now involves 34 percent of the workforce, nearly double the level of the asset-bubble peak in 1989.
Tachibanaki explains that this massive shift in Japan's employment system has been driven mostly by employers' focus on cost-cutting. He examines the consequences of this trend for women, who are disproportionately represented in this new "precarious proletariat" — one disadvantaged by low job security, wages, benefits and training.
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What Japan must do now to survive the coming U.S. conflagration
It is no secret that the tectonic plates of the American empire are slipping dramatically, though the vast majority of Americans are blissfully unaware or in denial of what may soon occur.
British historian Niall Ferguson recently described the American empire as "fragile," and likened its state to that of a forest before a fire — one of "self-organized criticality" in which, though the dry woods appear peaceful, savage fire can erupt at any moment.
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Take it slow — but only if it suits you
Slow Life Japan is a sort of movement, or rather an antimovement, that sprouted here and there in the 1990s, little islands of quietude amid the ultra-fast life that had come to seem as unquestionable as modernity itself. Production, consumption, growth, activity, exhaustion — all very well, but what for, after all, what for?
The first to balk officially was Iwate Prefecture. In 2001, it issued a "Gambaranai Sengen" ("Take-it-easy Declaration"; gambaranai being the negative form of the ubiquitous exhortation gambare — go all out, give it all you've got).
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