Captioning sponsored by Annenberg Cpb narrator the region of east asia is one of ancient cultures and modern economic growth. In japan, people are much affected by natural events, especially in rural areas. Here, weather patterns such as the cold wind called yamase can have drastic impact on agriculture. In northern japan, economics and agriculture intersect as the Rural Economy has been consumed by the challenge of an ageold goal to make the country self sufficient in Rice Production. Early october in japans northeast or tohoku region is the harvest season. As a staple food, rice is as important to the japanese diet as wheat is to the western diet. For a variety of reasons historical, religious, economic, social and cultural rice in japan has meaning much deeper than simply being a crop grown on the majority of agricultural land. The tohoku region is practically synonymous with rice farming. More than a quarter of japans domestic rice output comes from this region. The village of roku
Investments we need to make to train our future work force and to create an environment in which we can care for the elderly. The think americans will remain optimistic but this did of the economy . If we have not tackle the things we have just talked about like the cost of education, the Housing Market . We are figuring out some philosophical issues about taxing and funding . I think the economy has been growing slowly and steadily all in the absence of any movement, which we have seen over the test of the last year. I have worked on guantanamo for the past 10 years. My sense is that if there is some movement until the positive direction, which have not seen out of washington and enter a long time, in a long time, at least we will not see head winds. We are making some progress. I see that continue. I want to come back to what todd said earlier. I am concerned about confidence being fragile. Todd reference what happened until august of 2011. We saw in limited to lie confidence tank. M
Like Honey Boo Boo and im watching its. I think that is a huge part of the experience and i think it is sold short. I still think a lot of americans love the enjoyment of escapism and being able to roam around the tv jungle finding things they did not know were there. Michael powell on the future of television. On cspan2. Now a forum on highly skilled immigrants on the u. S. Economy. A panel talks about how immigration laws affects mat scuents. Well hear from mark warner. Hosted by the university of virginias center this is about an hour and 20 minutes. Thank you, david. Good evening. Welcome to the National Press club for the keynote round tail. I would like to pay special tribute to mark kaplan whose vision has made this annual conference possible. His commitment to Public Service has been stead fast through the years and were grateful for his abiding friendship. I also want to recognize, as david has, the hard work of david, mike, jeff, of the center. Who is responsible for convenin
With such a situation we have now, i mean, i mean economic environment, thats already inevitable that there was collapse but with such a case we have no, it would add and speed up this process definitely. Why i see analyze this way. First, for the period of year and a half we dont have industrial output. Already more than six months we dont have gdp growth. Two months this year have forward shown gdp has declined. A quarter figure it was announced by the government just a little bit higher than zero but its already declined. And International Results of central bank like a lookalike huge, 477 billion, but, in fact, that is not enough for the whole country to live. All citizens russia right now live on imported products. 90 imported. 90 of medicine imported. And it would mean if the results are not enough, normal import would not be available for people. Moreover, russian stay there, not quite high because we managed to solve this problem with other countries in the past, but corporatio
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