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Machines: Do your best!

Posted By tok_jimmy On January 29, 2007 @ 1:18 pm In Politics | Comments Disabled

“Because the number of birth-giving machines and devices is fixed, all we can ask for is for them to do their best per head.”

Shimane Prefecture Health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa looks at the problem of declining birth-rate in Japan in a rather dispassionate way(!).

Quote from his speech to LDP members over the weekend.
The Japan Times ^[1] and the BBC ^[2] picked up on his comments.

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[1] Japan Times: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070128a3.html

[2] BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6306685.stm

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