Japan to subsidize energy-efficient plants

According to the article “Japan to subsidize energy-efficient plants” (August 19, 2010) by Leika Kihara, published on www.reuters.com. Japan’s government plans to support the domestic plants to produce clean energy and economical goods such as Lithium battery cells for electric vehicles. Another purpose of this subsidize is to straighten out the dead line of subsidy cripple at householder to acquire the energy-efficient consumer.

It will also broaden a housing loan program, which was planned to be end by this year. This will be lead to the decrease in fixed rate loans on energy efficient and quake resistant homes for the next 35 years.

In my opinion, it is very courageous for Japan to start dealing with the global warming issues seriously. Many countries are happier seeing their economic growth high while pollution is getting worse. Japan has always been the first to tackle the issue and now seeing opportunity in the crisis it has made green energy its top priority products.

N Korea calls for Japanese apology, reparations for colonial rule

North Korea has blamed Tokyo for being unjust by offering only South Korea for its annexation of the Korean Peninsula a century ago. North Korea though has no diplomatic relations with Japan for a long time, mainly over the incidents that has happened late 1970s and early 1980s as part of North Korea’s espionage.

North Korea has expressed anger on the Japanese for the act that happened during 1910-1945 that the Japanese forced North Koreans to become labors and sex slaves while occupying the peninsula. Japan “should make immediate apology and reparation for the hideous crimes committed against the Korean people,” the North’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the country’s official Korean Central News Agency.

It has pressured Japan to “immediately roll back its hostile policy” towards North Korea. The statement by North Korea came about a week after Naoto Kan, Japanese prime minster, has apologized for the damages suffered by his country from the occupation and North Korea had expressed “deep remorse.” The statement by North Korea stated that Japan should repent and apologize to “all victims for the past without any precondition and discrimination.”

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Gov't to set up special team for job creation for young people

Japan has suffered from a terrible unemployment situation and Naoto Kan, the prime
minister of Japan, has created a special team to support a new plan of creating jobs for young people, including university graduates. The team leader will be the Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Manabu Terata who has served Naoto Kan as an aide.
This remark was made after Naoto Kan has visited employment related facilities in Kyoto in an effort to stabilize the employment situation among the young people. This team of specialist will put together from a short -term to long-term employment support plans, as “new graduates are facing difficulties in finding employment opportunities”, a government official said last Saturday.

Naoto Kan also said he will work hard to accelerate the economic stimulus measures from next work onward. ‘‘I will put together various opinions from the beginning of next week and I want to move on to a stage to compile economic measures,’’ Kan said.
The recent appreciation of the Yen because of rapid economic growth has affected Japan’s economy and Naoto Kan will start a new round of emergency steps to address these issues.

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