Ice Candle Ceremony at Auschwitz Peace Museum Japan
on January 29, 2011
The museum is located in Shirakawa in Fukushima Prefecture. The ceremony commemorates the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp by the Red Army.
Make me a channel of your peace (in Japanese) sung by the Aizu Mass Choir.
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Komine Castle Remains
Nanko Park
Suirakuen
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Shirakawa Haristos Othodox Church
Myokanji Temple
Yukiwari Canyon
Auschwitz Peace Museum
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PM says action needed to tackle financial crisis, exports plunge
SHOTLIST
1. Wide of Taro Aso, Japanese Prime Minister, walking to podium at the Nippon Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) general assembly
2. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Taro Aso, Japanese Prime Minister:
I think the global economy has just embarked on building a new order after such financial chaos. And I understand we (Japan) have a responsibility to meet such expectation (to contribute to resolving the crisis). Decisive action is called for to tackle such crisis, once in a century.
3. Wide of Masaaki Shirakawa, Bank of Japan Governor at podium
4. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Masaaki Shirakawa, Bank of Japan Governor:
Many say that the US economy will return to the recovery track in the latter half of next year. But, there is no positive reasons backing up such speculation and I understand such views as a message that the severe condition continues for another while.
5. Wide of Shirakawa at podium
STORYLINE
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso said on Monday that decisive action was needed to tackle the global financial crisis.
Meanwhile, Japanese exports plunged a record 26.7 percent in November, the Ministry of Finance said on Monday, highlighting the drop in global consumer demand for cars, electronics parts and other Japanese products.
Economists warned that exports - a mainstay of the world's second-largest economy - would tumble further with no recovery in sight for the global economy.
Speaking in Tokyo at the Japan Business Federation general assembly, Aso said that the global economy had embarked on building a new order after the financial upheaval of recent months.
He added that it was Japan's responsibility to contribute to the resolution of the crisis.
Japan unveiled a budget proposal on Saturday that, if approved, will push spending to record levels as the government scrambles to battle an ever-deepening recession.
The Finance Ministry's draft budget suggested a spending increase of 6.6 percent to 88.5 (t) trillion yen (990.9 (b) billion US dollars) for the next fiscal year, the biggest ever figure in an initial proposal.
The world's second-largest economy fell into a recession in the third quarter, and the signs since then point toward more misery ahead.
The latest outlook by the Cabinet Office projects Japan's economy to shrink this fiscal year and manage only flat growth the following year.
The budget proposal said general spending will rise to 51.7 (t) trillion yen (578.9 (b) billion US dollars) in the year starting April, even though tax revenue is projected to fall 13.9 percent to 46.1 (t) trillion yen (516.2 (b) billion US dollars).
As a result, Japan will see its primary budget deficit jump to more than 13 (t)trillion yen (145.6 (b)billion US dollars) from 5 (t)trillion yen (56 (b)billion US dollars) this year, and will boost bond issuances by 31.3 percent to cover the revenue shortfall.
The draft budget is scheduled for Cabinet approval on Wednesday and will likely be submitted to parliament in January.
The expansion is likely to derail Tokyo's efforts to slim down toward its goal of balancing the budget by 2011.
But Aso, facing plummeting popularity ratings, has made it clear that this is no time for fiscal discipline.
On Friday, the central bank, the Bank of Japan, cut its key interest rate to 0.1 percent, joining the US Federal Reserve in pushing borrowing costs close to zero.
And in its gloomiest assessment this year, the Bank of Japan cited the harsh impact of tumbling exports, weakening domestic demand, job losses and growing credit crunch.
Masaaki Shirakawa, the Governor of the Bank of Japan, expressed scepticism on Monday over predictions of an early recovery of the US economy.
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