<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-2022-jp"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>I seem to remember "Buy Nothing Day" taking a bit of a drubbing on this list a while back. Nonetheless, I think this article is interesting and Adbuster-like culture jamming would be very useful in Japan for a variety of reasons. While bubble-era rampant consumerism is giving way to "100 yen Shops" and increasing homelessness and underemployment, Japan still has remnants of the gift economy and a kind of "organic socialism". </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>The article also mentions this: "And perhaps Japan is actually ahead of its developed country cousins as its per capita ecological footprint is “roughly half” of a Canadian’s or American’s." A positive facet, no doubt but this is due in large part to the impossibility to use cars for daily commutes, strictly enforced recycling laws, and reduced living space. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><A href="http://www.theforeigner-japan.com/index.htm?http://www.theforeigner-japan.com/archives/200404/news.htm">http://www.theforeigner-japan.com/index.htm?http://www.theforeigner-japan.com/archives/200404/news.htm</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Greg</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>