woodynzjp comments

W.C.Fields once said "children should be seen and not heard" I reckon capital punishment would solve the problem...

what a farce !! how pathetic. what is the world coming to... how about giving a prize to the best looking homeless person... a prize of say a job and somewhere to live.

take policy actions in a timely and appropriate manner

what exactly does this mean? I suspect it is way of saying they are going to do nothing. or more likely they don't actually know what to DO !! haha...

A friend of mine just got a new Toyota Prius. They ordered it about 5 months ago and it was delivered just before the end of a government rebate for buying new "green" cars to help the economy (and big business with taxpayer's money). Also USA had a similar program "cash for clunkers". Once the rebates finish sales will likely drop. Would be interesting to see the figures about how many sales were attributed to the rebate scheme.

Some interesting points made Peter. I have sometimes surmised the Japan suicide rate could partly be attributed to the "Bushido" way of thinking: honor, obedience, duty, and self-sacrifice etc. though Russia has a higher rate with a different society and circumstances. The high numbers of suicides in Japan is definitely a sad situation but I can't see much improvement in the near future. In fact with another looming global financial crisis on the horizon things could get a lot worse in Japan. Not sure where you got the 135 million population figure from.According to stats Japan's 2008 total population was 127.69 million.