Inventor promotes low-power lifestyle with electricity-free appliances

[kristopher]

12. They are not going to lose their car and motorcycle industries Baggins.

Nor their electronics industries. You went from that into the area of trade deficits and GDP, trying to craft an inept apologia based on the theme of irrational fear to yet again shift the responsibility from the disaster caused by the massive failure of "safe" nuclear technology to the victims of that massive failure.

It is a particularly repugnant strategy FB.


ETA:

Surplus in '11 logged biggest fall on record
Kyodo
Friday, May 11, 2012
Japan's current account surplus logged the sharpest fall on record in fiscal 2011, as slower exports, growing imports, the strong yen and higher prices for crude oil and other commodities conspired against it, the Finance Ministry said Thursday.

The balance of payments, the widest gauge of a country's international trade, totaled ¥7.89 trillion for the year that ended March 31, a 52.6 percent plunge from the previous year — the largest fall since comparable data became available in fiscal 1985.

The total surplus was also the lowest seen in 15 years, but would have been even worse if not for increased income from companies' portfolio and foreign direct investment, the ministry said in a preliminary report.

Exports dropped 2.8 percent to ¥62.63 trillion, the first decline in two years, while imports surged 14.0 percent to ¥66.08 trillion, marking the second straight year of growth. The balance of trade in goods clocked a deficit of ¥3.45 trillion, the largest since data began to be compiled in fiscal 1972....

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20120511a1.html