Just in time for Davos

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Thu Feb 1 00:41:57 PST 2001



>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



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