Just in time for Davos

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Sunday, January 28 9:09 AM SGT
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>The debt time bomb that could explode in Japan's face
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>TOKYO, Jan 28 (AFP) -
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>The pension system represents another time bomb ticking as Japan's 
>population ages more rapidly than any other in the world.

Japan has a huge under-used pool of labor -- women.  Were Japanese 
feminists & leftists alive & kicking (rather than stagnant & bereft 
of imagination as they are), they would make use of the current 
economic crisis to create a new capital-labor settlement on the basis 
of gender equality, by reviving women's movement, though doing so 
would make them part of the neoliberal Third Way, more likely than 
not.

Yoshie