Late trains and crowdedness
Yesterday, the trains into work were over an hour late (a relative rarity here in japan). Luckily I had decided to take the local in that morning so I had a seat and a book. I didn’t really mind much. A couple times along the journey though the train on the other side of the [...]
Canada’s trade balance goes negative
Canada, a modern economy whose export focuses on natural resources, has crossed form its historically large trade balance have moved into the negative. According to Statistics Canada (longer range chart here) the trade balance has been historically between 2 and 6 billion dollars from the mid 90s onwards with a steady rise throughout the Chretien [...]
Greenpeace event – Tokyo Two
I went to my first Greenpeace event even on Friday last week. It was a talk show type event with the main guests being Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki (short article here). They are standing trial for theft of whalemeat in an effort to expose corruption. I strongly support their cause and they had a [...]