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Voter turnout in Japan has avereged 66.5% over the last 25 years. I don't have any specifics by age or sex though.
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I don't know anything about geothermal but the Japanese are in serious negotiations with the Russians about building a direct LNG pipeline from Russia into Hokkaido. That would significantly reduce energy costs and go a long way towards making the nuclear free 2030 plan possible.
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Sep 17, 2012 16:13
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Also look into historical interest rate spreads. The yen was cheap for way too many years.
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Sep 23, 2012 06:47
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And people are finally figuring out that burning down a Japanese factory in China hurts the Chinese economy way more than the Japanese.
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Sep 26, 2012 04:11
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Protocol 5 posted:It's worth noting that people have jumped in with both feet trying to build up the domestic IT and web services industries over the last decade that manufacturing has been in decline, I just feel sorry for all the kids who are going to industrial high schools for vocational programs preparing them for non-existent factory jobs. By in decline do you mean just declining jobs or output? Because in both the US and Japan, even though jobs are leaving, output is going on strong. 
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Sep 28, 2012 20:28
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More output with fewer inputs can only mean higher productivity. Isn't that a good thing?
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Sep 28, 2012 21:08
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So forcing companies to hold on to inefficient employees is better?
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Sep 28, 2012 21:38
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But isn't the "hollowing out" of manufacturing - fewer jobs - a necessary counterpart to the increase in personal services (healthcare) that are the largest component of consumption in the developed world?
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Sep 28, 2012 22:47
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Yes, people will get new jobs in new fields. Just as they've already been doing for decades. Loss of manufacturing jobs is not new. In Japan, factory jobs fell by 26% from 1990 through 2008. During the same period, they fell 28% in Germany, 24% in France and 24% in the US. In the former West Germany, factory jobs peaked and started falling way back in 1970...
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Sep 29, 2012 01:02
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ErIog posted:
Is this not EASP? （雇用調整助成金） How did that work out for Japan?
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ErIog posted:Employment declining in the graph you posted would point to the fact that things aren't actually that pat and dry. Those people don't all find jobs in new fields. The employment data you posted makes that clear. A certain percentage of them did, and the rest left the work force. The graph is manufacturing employment only.
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