Japan's racing to the past party offers up its Manifesto
The Nippon Ishin No Kai (Japan Restoration Party) on Thursday unveiled its manifesto for the July 21 upper house election.
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, who co-heads the party with former Tokyo Gov Shintaro Ishihara, said the party’s pledges aim to achieve what no previous government has been able to, Sankei Shimbun reported.
Key policy pledges include achieving economic growth of more than 3%, enabling the public to directly elect the prime minister, scrapping the upper house, halving the number of seats in the lower house from 480 to 240, changing the consumption tax into a regional tax, reorganizing prefectures into larger regional blocs, joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) framework and ending the nation’s reliance on nuclear power.
Referring to the controversy over Hashimoto’s remarks on Japan’s wartime military brothels, the manifesto says the party will clarify historical facts and protect Japan’s dignity, Sankei reported.
By clarifying history they mean making sure everyone is in complete denial
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North Korea knows fail
According to an American media specializing in foreign policy FP and a non-partisan research institute The Fund For Peace, the Failed States Index evaluated North Korea 95.1 points and ranked the country 23rd among 178 countries.
Since 2005, the two agencies have been annually presenting countries’ level by vulnerability by evaluating them under 12 different categories, including government control, human rights, civil order, economic condition, intervention of other states and more.
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BEIJING - There were 7.089 million civil servants in China by the end of 2012, the State Administration of Civil Service revealed Thursday.
The number was up from 7.021 million by the end of 2011, according to a statement posted on the administration's official website.
China had 6.597 million civil servants in 2008, 6.789 million in 2009 and 6.894 million in 2010, according to the administration, which is affiliated to the country's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
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