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[Updated in March 2012]A big incident in Japan today was an announcement delivered by Prime Minister Mr. Noda.
He said that he would start to join negotiations for TPP. He plans to inform US President Mr. Obama of his decision in the APEC meeting scheduled in Hawaii this weekend.
However, at least 40% of Japanese voters are against the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, tough another 40% are in favor with Japan's entry to TPP. Yet, in a democratic nation such as Japan, it would be very difficult to pursue a policy against which 40% of voters make an objection.
From the beginning, President Mr. Obama intends to increase employment in the US by increasing export through TPP. So, Japan's participation to TPP is a big issue for the Obama Administration. In this context, Japan is in a invulnerable position. Yet, PM Mr. Noda looks like being compelled to join it, since major Japanese makers want the Government to conclude TPP. The Japanese Federation of Economic Organizations is also pushing the political and social movement toward TPP.
Nonetheless, TPP will force Japanese farmers to compete with American and Australian farmers without protection of tariff duties. As the land size of Japan is far smaller than those of America and Australia, Japanese agriculture, especially rice farming, cannot compete with American and Australian counterparts. Even other Asian countries produce rice at lower costs.
So, TPP is very controversial for Japan as it aims at 0% tariff duties on every product. But, US businesses would be able to enter Japanese markets in various sectors, such as the medicine, the legal service, and the public work. On the other hand, Japanese makers would be allowed to export products to America without customs duties, though they are just 2.5% or so now. Yet, this margin is too small compared with a wide fluctuation of the exchange rate between the yen and the dollar.
In total, it is not so advantageous for Japan. Japan should not join TPP. But, as long as the Noda Cabinet continues, it will be difficult to break away from TPP. So, this can be a reason to change the Japanese prime mister in a year or so, again.
Standard World Map Used in Japan
The US Military Bases in the World
Terror Index
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| 1 | Somalia | Extreme |
| 2 | Pakistan | Extreme |
| 3 | Iraq | Extreme |
| 4 | Afghanistan | Extreme |
| 5 | P.OT | Extreme |
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| 6 | Colombia | Extreme |
| 7 | Thailand | Extreme |
| 8 | Philippines | Extreme |
| 9 | Yemen | Extreme |
| 10 | Russia | Extreme |
Nuclear Power Plants in the World
Fukushima Daiichi Radiation/Fallout Measurement
Fukushima Daiichi Release Estimation
Major Religions in the World
Adult Literacy Rate of Developing Countries
The IP Address Distribution
The Sate of Use of Twitter
Population Density
Map by Greek Hecataeus (c. 550 BC – c. 476 BC)
The Map Made by Ptolemy in AD 150
http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~libell/maps.html
The First Map Including America in 1507
The First Map Including America in 1507
The World First Xmas Post Stamp in 1898
http://yosukenaito.blog40.fc2.com/blog-entry-1668.html
How Mankind Spread on the Earth
How Mankind Spread on the Earth
("10万年前" = 10 of 10,000 years ago;
Mankind Spreading Traced Using Subgroup of Y Chromosome
Neanderthal Distribution
The World Vegetation
The Earth 120 Million Years Ago & Split of Mammals
How Continental Plates are Moving Today
The Global Volcanic/Quake Belts
(http://j-jis.com/data/plate.shtml)
Real Time Earthquake Map
Snow-Covered Japan in January
The World in 12 Months
(to be continued...)
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There are 1,500 children, junior high-school students, and high school students who lost their parents in the 3/11 tsunami that rushed to northeast coasts of Japan on March 11, 2011.
One high school girl lost her mother while the two were running away from a tsunami. They abandoned the car on a road with many cars jammed and started to climb up a hill nearby. Her mother said on the uphill ramp that it was hard to climb. Then just one meter away from the daughter, the mother was engulfed by the mighty tsunami. But, the daughter was saved like a miracle on the slope of the hill.
Months after, the high school girl met another girl, two years younger, in a certain gathering of high school students from different tsunami affected areas. The younger high school student also lost her mother while running away together from a fast and massive tsunami. Her mother being stuck to something said to her daughter, "Please do not leave me!" But her daughter judged that if she had tried to help her mother she should have been drowned, too. So, she ran away from the imminent danger to be saved alone eventually. All beyond the tragedies, the two high-school girls became good friends and looked somehow happy on TV broadcast around Tokyo.
There are many such stories, since 20,000 people lost their lives in northeast Japan on March 11, 2011.
Mar 11:11 And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.
Mar 11:12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
Mar 11:13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
Mar 11:14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
Mar 11:15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
Mar 11:16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
Mar 11:17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.