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Japan Times :: Sunday, April 11, 2010

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- [NATIONAL NEWS]
LDP defectors launch new political party
(By ALEX MARTIN, Staff writer)
Former trade minister Takeo Hiranuma and four other ex-Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers launch a new party in a bid to create a viable alternative to the dominant players ahead of this summer's Upper House election.
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- [NATIONAL NEWS]
U.N.'s Ban to visit Hiroshima Aug. 6
(Kyodo News)
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon decides to visit Hiroshima on Aug. 6, as the city marks the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing.
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- [NATIONAL NEWS]
Japan-U.S. working-level talks on Futenma delayed: Okada
(Kyodo News)
Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada indicates the time is not yet right for Japan and the United States to hold working-level talks on the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.
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- [NATIONAL NEWS]
New party a boon to DPJ, thorn in divided LDP's side
JUN HONGO, Staff writer
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100411a4.html
- [NATIONAL NEWS]
Hatoyama urges China transparency
(Kyodo News)
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100411a7.html
- [JT EDITORIAL]
The DPJ's new manifesto
"The Democratic Party of Japan has started preparing a new election manifesto for the coming Upper House election and is scheduled to adopt it by the end of May. Making promises that aren't financially feasible will only cost the party popular support. Therefore the DPJ should carefully review its 2009 election manifesto and revise it accordingly. "
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/ed20100411a1.html
- [BOOKS]
Enduring effects of social class
JEFF KINGSTON
"Hiroshi Ishida, drawing on rigorous empirical analysis, shows that the "relative positions of class status have remained remarkably stable" in post-World War II Japan, pointing out that family background influences access to higher education and thus limits class mobility. "
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fb20100411a1.html
- [MEDIA]
Public works project has DPJ in a dam mess
PHILIP BRASOR
"Japan is the most dammed country in the world, which indirectly says a lot about its reliance on public works for economic stimulation. Nevertheless, the majority of Japanese citizens know very little about the politics and science of water control."
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