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「Nenshu 6 wari demo Shukyu 4ka」toiu ikikata
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「Nenshu 6 wari demo Shukyu 4ka」toiu ikikata
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Shogakukan, October 2009
New Lifestyle: Sixty Percent Income for Three-Day Work Week
In 2008, I sent an email message to all of my employees to start preparing for the future, when it is expected that the Japanese economy will shrink by half. I wanted us to be ready for this change, not just as a company, but also as individuals. What you can do to prepare is to learn to do on your own all of the things you now pay others to do. Our great-grandparents grew their own food, sewed and repaired their own clothes, and did their own carpentry. Their lifestyles were more active than ours today, and they were healthier than we are because they were not addicted to consumerism like we are.
In Chapter II in the book, Mr Totten makes four proposals to the Japanese government:
- Revive the capital gains tax
- Sell US Treasury bonds and denominate loans to the US government in yen rather than US dollars
- Issue government money
- Make the government the employer of last resort
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Aikokusha no Ryuugi
--- Aoimeno Nihonjin ga Anatani Tsutaetaikoto
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PHP, March 2008
My Way of Patriotism: A Message from a New Japanese Citizen
"I cannot stand by and watch silently as American globalization causes Japan to collapse! This is a Japanese message--by a Japanese, for my fellow Japanese--on how to survive."
Japan is now at an important turning point both morally and economically. This is the first national crisis since the end of the war.
Mr. Totten conveys to Japanese readers how to live as patriotic Japanese citizens.
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Nihon wa Ryakudatsu Kokka America wo Suteyo
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Business Sha, Janurary 2007
Japan, cast off America, the nation of plunderers
-- No need for globalization or shared illusions --
"I now hold neither affection nor goodwill toward the United States. Indeed, it could be said I've run out of patience, for now the only feeling that arises when I think of the country known as the United States is disappointment. I no longer feel any attachment. I don't even feel nostalgia."
This proposal is for the people of Japan by Mr Totten, who in 2006 was finally able to cast off his US citizenship and become a citizen of Japan.
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Naze Nippon-jin wa Utsukushii Fushu wo Suterunoka
Sin-nichika 8-nin Karano Atsuki Message.
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Co-authored with Peter Frankl, Dario Ponnisi, et al., Meitaku Shuppan,
February 2006
What's wrong with Japan? Messages from eight Japanophiles.
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Nihon no Mono-Zukuri 58 no Ronten: Jizokuteki Hanei wo Kizuku Shisou
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Co-authored with Karatsu Hajime, Nishibe Susume, et l., JIPM Solution, Dec. 2005
How Japan can become a sustainable society -- 58 esseys from
58 opinion makers.
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