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Park Street Church also awarded $6,300 for a future photography exhibit encouraging missionary work in the Park Street Church community to Harvard Dental School student Hyewon Lee and Harvard Medical School research fellow Leo K. Iwai...
...Right now, the key challenges facing Japan are domestic. The Japanese, in a funk since the bubble burst, know that things cannot go on like they have. "Japanese people wish for a fundamental change, but there's no one to vote for," says Tomoaki Iwai, a professor of political science at Nihon University in Tokyo. Koll says that "the real question is whether politics can be sexy again for the younger generation - something that you actually want to be involved with, not only because it affects your life but affects your future...
...Japanese equivalent of the U.S. National Security Council, reporting directly to the Prime Minister. The creation of Team Abe is an attempt to shift political power away from Kasumigaseki, where Japan's formidable bureaucrats toil. "There's always been a struggle between the LDP and the ministries," says Tomoaki Iwai, a professor of political science at Nihon University. "Abe came through with a White House-style system of strong leadership that Koizumi couldn't quite achieve...
...about the need to make Japan a "beautiful country" without mentioning specific, results-oriented policy initiatives that were a hallmark of Koizumi's administration. "He talks about economic revitalization and closing the gap between urban and rural regions, but he insists on cutting public spending," says Nihon University's Iwai. "There are certain inherent contradictions in what he says, and he hasn't addressed them." Adds Etsushi Tanifuji, director of the Institute for Research in Contemporary Political and Economic Affairs at Waseda University: "We'll see Abe's competence as a leader at the end of the year, when budget...
...under and Japan offers no support for the unemployed," frets Minoru Morita, a prominent political analyst. Already, LDP politicians and Tokyo bankers are circulating a list of 51 companies presumed likely to meet with peril under the plan?including retailer Mitsukoshi, video gamemaker Sega and trading outfit Nissho Iwai, plus a slew of construction, heavy machinery and real estate companies. Goldman Sachs estimates that if all 51 companies on the list were to close, Japan's unemployment rate would jump from 5.4% to 6.1%. And that tally doesn't include thousands of small and medium-sized businesses also likely...