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...green cars. The government instituted a goal to make 100% of its fleet of 7,000 official cars "green," meaning they get ultrahigh mileage running, at least in part, on some ultra-clean fuel such as hydrogen. When told in May that this would take seven years, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi responded with "That's too long--make it three!" Denmark, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Austria and Sweden also use government purchases to stimulate production of renewables. By contrast, the U.S. has no comparable federal policies to stimulate the market for green cars. A number of states, however, have...
...Pearl Harbor's invasion of Japan also coincides with the rise of a new national mood. The hugely popular Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is determined to rekindle a feeling of pride after a decade of economic doldrums. His plans to revise the constitution, which renounces any offensive military capability, and to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, a contentious memorial for dead war veterans (including World War II war criminals), have elicited outcries abroad but little to none at home. Two years ago the Diet restored the World War II-era Hinomaru flag and Emperor-worshiping Kimigayo anthem as official standard-bearers...
Trouble is, it's all about politics too. Last week, just hours before Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi met at Camp David with George W. Bush, Okinawa saw the type of ugly incident that happens there with depressing regularity--becoming, once again, a tawdry pivot in the complex relationship between the U.S. and Japan. A woman in her 20s told police that a foreigner raped her early Friday morning in the parking lot of a shopping mall in Chatan, not far from the Kadena base. Details of the alleged crime are sketchy, but for several hours police questioned...
...always. Last week, just 36 hours before Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was to meet at Camp David with U.S. President George W. Bush for the first time, Okinawa suffered the type of ugly incident that happens with depressing regularity?becoming, once again, one of the most tricky points in the complex relationship between the U.S. and Japan. Early Friday morning, a woman in her twenties told police that a foreigner raped her in a parking lot of a shopping mall not far from the Kadena base. Police later said they had identified a U.S. Air Force technical sergeant...
...film's release also coincides with a new mood in Japan. Junichiro Koizumi, the new and hugely popular Prime Minister, is determined to restore national pride; he plans to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, a memorial, which most of his predecessors have avoided, that's controversial for heralding convicted war criminals as well as other war dead. A film like Pearl Harbor, says Koizumi's spokesman, Kazuhiko Koshikawa, is "quite fictitious and one-sided. Japan is portrayed as the enemy and wrong. The U.S. is portrayed as right...