Pride-less Ones and Amateurs
Those who play a tank drama are not so bad compared with players who have lost pride in dealing with amateurs.
Such politicians cannot handle a trillion-dollar-scale deficit issue.
SECTION I: Japan's Financial Crisis & Deflation
The Japanese Government have been able to collect less and less corporate tax since 1990's. Especially, small and middle-sized businesses have contributed less and less to the national budget.
(http://www.rieti.go.jp/jp/publications/dp/08j033.pdf )
Accordingly, workers have come to pay less and less income taxes to the Government since 1990's.
(http://www.kiser.or.jp/ja/project/pdf/103_Pdf04.pdf )
Both the downward trends are apparently the clear indication of deflation.
As competition in the global export market has been intensified since 1990's, Japanese makers have to supply goods at lower prices even in the domestic market. They have to specifically cope with imported cheap goods from China.
Accordingly, salary levels in Japan have been lowered and tax revenues have decreased.
However, it does not mean that many Japanese companies have gone bankrupt. Instead, for Japanese businesses to survive, they have decreased prices of their products, wages to their workers, and taxes due to them, which have brought about deflation and national revenue deficit.
SECTION II: Metropolitan Area Population Ranking
Tokyo Metropolitan Area has the largest population in the world:
# Metropolitan area/Country... Population... Area (km2)
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1 Tokyo/ Japan... 32,450,000... 8,014
2 Seoul/ South Korea... 20,550,000... 5,076
3 Mexico City/ Mexico... 20,450,000... 7,346
4 New York City/ USA... 19,750,000... 17,884
5 Mumbai/ India... 19,200,000... 2,350
6 Jakarta/ Indonesia... 18,900,000... 5,100
7 São Paulo/ Brazil... 18,850,000... 8,479
8 Delhi/ India... 18,600,000... 3,182
9 Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto/ Japan... 17,375,000... 6,930
10 Shanghai/ China... 16,650,000 5,177
11 Manila/ Philippines... 16,300,000... 2,521
12 Hong Kong-Shenzhen/ China... 15,800,000... 3,051
13 Los Angeles/ USA... 15,250,000... 10,780
14 Kolkata/ India... 15,100,000... 1,785
15 Moscow/ Russia... 15,000,000... 14,925
16 Cairo/ Egypt... 14,450,000... 1,600
17 Buenos Aires/ Argentina... 13,170,000... 10,888
18 London/ UK... 12,875,000... 11,391
19 Beijing/ China... 12,500,000... 6,562
20 Karachi/ Pakistan... 11,800,000... 1,100
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_population
That is why all these pictures I have taken all around Tokyo are of No.1 value in this context globally.
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Today, Prime Minister of Japan fired a Cabinet minister who did not support his plan to relocate a U.S. Marine air base from a very populated town to a coastal area, though, within the Okinawa Island.
The fired minister is head of the Social Democratic Party, so that Mr. Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan might lose one allied party from the ruling coalition.
And, voters who have observed this defocused drama today might be determined what to do in the coming Upper House election, since the urgent issue is safety of residents living around the present U.S. Marines' base at Futenma.
Anyway, P.M. Mr. Hatoyama proudly said that President Mr. Barack Obama thanked him over the phone for fixing the matter as the prime minister had promised earlier setting voluntarily a deadline at the end of May.
This is a big news in Japan today.
And, Apple's iPads are launched in Japan today, too.
( http://www.harpinanawhinin.com/Tabs/OldTimeTabs/third_man_theme.htm
Indeed, you probably do not belong to the future, since you are the last remnant of this fading era, which might be a message from a goddess of Art...though still you can be very unique as they are not simply and insignificantly.)
Luk 5:27 And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me.
Luk 5:28 And he left all, rose up, and followed him.