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The government plans extra stimulus spending to counter the tax hike’s lingering effects.

Um, why not just save money by not raising taxes and sinking the economy in the first place?

The bankers will have their way.

Here's some more info on the cost of keeping nuclear plants shut down: http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-Japan-continues-to-count-cost-of-idled-reactors-1706144.html

Nothing wrong with research like this.

I can't think of a better place to store nuclear and industrial waste than Okuma.

Rather than playing games, he should work to help people.

Whoa, someone did not age well.

Yes, bulldoze the forests to put up solar in a country that is cloudy most of the year. 2.3 MW? Are you kidding? Nuclear reactors are usually over 1000 MW. You'd have to bulldoze all of Japan to put up solar cells to make 1 or 2 nuclear plants.

Why not just re-use it?

They are trying to sell the Gox brand. I doubt anyone will buy it for any price.

Not sure why food prices are excluded. Just because something is "volatile" doesn't mean that it should be ignored. There are ways to calculate confidence intervals based on the variance. That is what every other discipline does.

Ah, yes, the feelies. Huxley was truly ahead of his time.

You shouldn't make fun of people

Terrible

And by talks, he means they will hold a staged referendum to annex Hokkaido into Russia.

Keeping these reactors offline for so many years is really dangerous because when they restart (and they will restart), all the engineers and people who run these plants will not remember how to do their jobs correctly after so many years of not doing it. We need the plants to restart as soon as possible so save our economy and create a safer country.

I always thought she was kind of a hack

abenomics = trickle up poverty

Not restarting the reactors is more dangerous to the health and sustainability of Japan (and the world) than keeping them shutdown

I have the feeling that there is a lot more going on than we see.

Drugging up is not the answer. There are systemic problems that have to be addressed. Government isn't the one to do it, either. This is the realm of religion.

We are all about 30% poorer. That's a greeeeaaaat result.

Foreign investment = slavery.

Foreign money coming into Japan will make big corporation execs rich, but there will be no incentive to help the average worker. Foreigners will just try to exploit Japanese workers as much as possible, because they are not from the same country, so what do they care?

But isn't that what Abenomics is all about? Giving big multinational corporations more power in Japan on the backs of the common Taro working 14 hour days.

If he died, then they didn't "botch" the execution.

We need some holidays in June. Pigeon day should be in June, I think!

Oh come on, it's a niconico conference, not an LDP conference. Compared to other stuff there, that was pretty mild.

Time to RESTART JAPAN.

Can only go down from here.

Are these better than placebo, unlike every other flu vaccine?

Good time to short the Nikkei from tomorrow, because everyone will suddenly stop buying.