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Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama faced a new scandal Monday when it was revealed he failed to declare income from stock sales, giving the opposition ammunition heading into a three-day Lower House Budget Committee session.




"This is a personal affair of the prime minister," Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano told reporters in an apparent attempt to contain the fallout.

Earlier in the day, reports swirled that Hatoyama did not declare ¥72 million in income obtained through stock sales in 2008.

Hatoyama already faces flak for filing falsified fundraising reports, a sore spot brought forward by the opposition, particularly the Liberal Democratic Party, during the first day of the committee session.

LDP Secretary General Tadamori Oshima slammed Hatoyama for failing to explain why his fundraising reports listed dead people and nondonors as financial contributors.

"I say for your own sake as the prime minister that you should clarify the details to the public," Oshima said during the Asian mature videos session.

Hatoyama apologized for failing to declare the income and claimed he "was not aware" of the mistake. He blamed a communications breakdown with his office personnel. He declined to provide further details, saying any comments on the issue could affect the ongoing investigation. His office meanwhile said the tax report has been corrected.

The LDP locked horns with the Democratic Party of Japan administration on other matters as well, hitting the Cabinet hard for weakening ties with the U.S.

"The Cabinet is showing signs of inconsistency and arrogance," Oshima said, urging the government to quickly decide on where to relocate U.S. Futenma air base.

Former LDP Secretary General Koichi Kato and former Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura, another LDP stalwart, took issue with the DPJ's apparent shift in relations with Washington.

"The Cabinet is causing discord" with the United States on a number of fronts, Machimura warned.

Hatoyama replied that his team is assessing the 2006 accord reached with the U.S. on relocating the Futenma base, explaining that a decision may not be reached in time for President Barack Obama's visit to Japan next week.

"We do not intend to prolong our review, but we are not at the point to set a time limit," Hatoyama said, noting the Mature asian women "doesn't need to be decided in time for President Obama's visit."

The appointment of former Vice Finance Minister Jiro Saito as the new chief of Japan Post Holdings Co. also drew fire, with Oshima saying it "goes against the political pledge of the DPJ" to end bureaucrat-led politics.

Hatoyama replied that Saito worked for the private sector after retiring from the Finance Ministry and that the appointment doesn't amount to giving top bureaucrats lucrative jobs.

Hatoyama meanwhile renewed his assurances he plans to cap japanese gay movies bond issues to cover government deficits. He said his team will seek to keep new bond issuance for fiscal 2009 below ¥44 trillion, a figure the previous LDP administration initially estimated.

Asked about next year's budget plans by DPJ member Banri Kaieda, Hatoyama acknowledged tax revenues will probably slump
 

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In September, some remarkable breakthroughs occurred in climate protection - almost enough to balance the grim news on the scientific front indicating rapidly thinning Arctic sea ice and acceleration of deglaciation in Greenland.

The promising signs include India’s announcement of willingness to commit to greenhouse limits and adoption of a domestic cap and trade plan for energy efficiency in eight industry sectors; massive investments by China in wind and solar energy; and an announcement by Japan’s new prime minister, Yukio Hatayama, that Japan will commit to reduce its greenhouse emissions 25% below current levels by 2020. The Republic of Korea’s Green New Deal stimulus package, launched in January, had already disbursed 20% of the U.S. $38.1 billion pledged for 2009-2012. Indonesia has also indicated the potential for cuts in carbon emissions of 40% below 2005 levels by 2030 through reductions in deforestation, peat land degradation, and energy consumption.

Despite this progress, the outlook is not auspicious for a sweeping North–South emissions accord by the conclusion of this japanese sex video Copenhagen Climate Conference. Different perceptions by developed and developing countries over historic emissions, per capita emissions and emissions growth complicate near term efforts to get a deal on CO2. Yet, the overall outlook for global emissions reduction is more promising if we look past the negotiations to what is actually happening as a global competition develops to dominate emerging low carbon energy fields.

Just as it became clear that cap and trade climate legislation was facing rough going in the U.S. Senate and would be unlikely to be enacted before the December 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference, environmental visionary Lester Brown reported the startling news that U.S. energy sector carbon emissions based on data through summer 2009 had dropped 9% since 2007. In a few other instances in the last generation significant reductions in greenhouse emissions occurred quickly in major industrial countries.

In the UK, the National Union of Mineworkers led by Thatcher foe, Arthur Scargill, went on strike in March 1984 against the prime minister’s efforts to close some inefficient coal mines; when the strike ended a year later the union was broken and Thatcher managed to move the UK’s electricity base to natural gas, much coming from the North Sea. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the reunification the next year of Germany led to a closure of highly inefficient factories in the East and a dramatic drop in overall German greenhouse emissions. Closing of some greatly inefficient factories and forcing individuals and industry to pay for energy consumed following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 resulted in a sharp drop in greenhouse emissions in virtually all of the countries that had once been part of the Soviet Union.

Yet, unlike these moves produced by political upheaval, the sharp and quick drop in U.S. emissions may be a harbinger of a profound change in perception by industry, investors and consumers of the need of japanese boys sex  to adopt a more environmentally sustainable path. Some of the drop was, as Brown notes, likely attributable to the sharp spike in gasoline prices in 2008 and some to a slowdown in the economy.

Much of it, however, appears attributable to shifts throughout the economy to a lower carbon path with new coal plants becoming as difficult to finance and license as nuclear plants have been since the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, wind emerging as a large-scale power technology, and greater use of a range of renewable and efficiency systems. This sharp U.S. emissions drop happened largely before there would have been a chance for the Obama administration’s green energy policy changes and stimulus package energy spending to take hold. It seems likely that they will give further momentum to this U.S. de-carbonizing trend.

The remarkable U.S. emissions change may be an indication that the U.S. economy is already moving rapidly toward a low-carbon path. On Sept 14, just a week and a half before the opening of the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh, The Climate Institute (Australia), a widely respected climate protection group that has since its founding in 2005 helped catalyze an about face in Australian climate policy, and E 3 G, a London-based environmental think tank, released a report tracking the positioning of each of the G-20 member nations on what the report characterized as “low carbon competitiveness,” namely the ability to have their economies thrive in a carbon-constrained world. These emission trends in the U.S. likely reflect a broad-based move to de-carbonize, a product of actions of thousands of entrepreneurs and investors, many state and local policy makers, and millions of consumers whose growing environmental interest has reinforced the interest of investors and entrepr eneurs in low and non carbon energy.

Already there are signs in China of a similar concerted effort to move toward a low-carbon economy. Fed partly by perceptions of vulnerability to climate change and the air and water pollution associated with coal burning, this Chinese thrust may be driven even more by a desire to be preeminent in such technologies as solar, wind, and carbon capture and storage related to fossil fuel burning. It is likely that such change is underway in India, Japan, Korea, and many other countries and driven by competitiveness concerns as much as environmental commitment.

It is important to sustain investors’ and entrepreneurs’ perceptions that there will be a price to pay for emitting greenhouse gases and heat trapping particles, so it is vital that progress occur at Copenhagen. It is equally crucial, however, to pay much greater attention to short-lived greenhouse gases such as methane and heat trapping particles whose reduction could result in near term cuts in the radiative forcing that drives climate change.

It is vital to develop a Global Warming Potential (GWP) for black carbon that would facilitate investment in cleaner cookstoves, retrofitted two stroke engines and much cleaner trucks. A shift to a 20-year rather than 100-year time frame for GWP calculations in trading could result in much sharper reductions in radiative forcing that threatens to cause climate change to move past irreversible tipping points.

Fortunately, the United Nations Environment Program recognizes that black carbon reductions are a crucial part of an effective climate solution, and the United Nations Foundation has been examining the feasibility of greatly expanded clean cook stove programs that might slash both indoor air pollution deaths and global black carbon emissions. Building these win-win strategies into a climate deal would ensure that a climate treaty would have a lasting effect, whether negotiated in Copenhagen this Dec or 11 months later at COP16, expected to be in Mexico.

John Topping Jr is the president of the Washington, DC-based Climate Institute.

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TOKYO —
Tokyo stocks fell Monday for the third straight session, sending the key Nikkei index to an 11-week closing low, as exporters slumped amid revived uncertainty about the U.S. economic recovery and continued  asian boys movies from a stronger yen relative to the U.S. dollar. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average ended down 57.38 points from Friday to 9,674.49, its lowest close since July 21, when it logged 9,652.02.

The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was down 7.39 points to 867.28, its lowest since July 15. Decliners were led by precision machinery, machinery and mining issues. Major gainers included the securities, consumer finance and food sectors. ‘‘The U.S. jobs figures were rather severe, casting a dark cloud over the U.S. economic outlook,’’ said Tsuyoshi Segawa, an equity strategist at Mizuho Securities Co.

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NEW YORK —

Hideki Matsui went 1-for-2 as the New York Yankees closed the regular season with a 10-2 rout of the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday. Matsui reached on catcher interference by Gregg Zaun in the first tinning and singled up the middle in the sixth before he was replaced by a pitch runner. He grounded out in his other at-bat.

In other action, Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro went 1-for-3 with a single in a 4-3 win over the Texas Rangers, all but giving him the most hits in the major leagues for the fourth consecutive year with a total of 225. Ichiro is second in batting average with .352 but ended the season with 26 stolen bases, failing to record 30 or more stolen bases for the ninth consecutive year.

Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer leads the majors batting .364. Individual season stats will be finalized after a one-game tiebreaker between the sex video and the sex movie on Tuesday to decide the American League Central champion.

Cleveland Indians right-hander Tomokazu Ohka (1-5) was roughed up for seven runs and six hits in five innings in a 12-7 defeat to the Boston Red Sox.

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The U.S. government has asked Japan to pay around 1 billion yen for information related to the capabilities of the U.S. F-35 fighter jet, a leading candidate for Japan’s next-generation mainstay fighter, sources close to Japan-U.S. relations said Saturday. The U.S. side has also told Japan that Washington will provide information on the jet’s stealth capabilities for evading radar detection once Tokyo makes a decision to purchase the fighter jet, the sources said.

Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates are likely to discuss Japan’s possible selection of the F-35 when they hold talks in Japan on Oct 20. The F-35 is being jointly developed by the United States, Britain, Australia and other countries, and the 1 billion yen would likely be redistributed depending on the ratio of development costs shouldered by each country.

Japan is not participating in the joint development as it conflicts with the country’s principles of banning weapons and arms-technology exports.

Japan initially aimed to acquire the U.S. F-22 stealth fighter to replace its aging F-4EJ fighter fleet, but U.S. law currently prohibits export of the F-22 and the United States has announced a plan to halt production of the jet.

Though other models such as the F/A-18 and F-15FX produced by the United States and the Asian milf , produced by a consortium of European manufacturers, are still being studied, Japan is inclined to select the F-35 as it has the highest performance after the F-22.

Japan will start considering allocating purchasing costs for the F-35 in a draft budget for fiscal 2011, while accepting the payment request for the F-35 information, the sources said. One F-35 jet is expected to cost about 9 billion yen.

The information, which the United States is willing to provide, is likely to include the fighter jet’s detailed attack capabilities and adult video on its mobility.

As information regarding stealth capability is highly classified information, the U.S. government has told Japan that it will disclose the information when Japan’s purchase of the F-35 is confirmed, the sources said.

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