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I was wandering around Shibuya the other night and ran across a construction divider plastered with stickers of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda. The stickers gradually sprung up shortly after the 1 year anniversary of the 3.11 nuclear disaster. These and many others are the work of a designer/underground artist cryptically named “281 AntiNuke” targeting Tepco Photographer Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert documented some of 281′s handy work throughout the city along with a photograph of what appears to be 281 himself standing beside one of his stickers. I can’t find any other information on this artistic crusader otherwise. So far, I haven’t seen these two photos uploaded online. One is a an Obama Hope poster parody with the President’s visage replaced by a collage of nuclear trefoils. The other is another of Noda as a ventriloquist dummy with the tagline “Follow the Follower.”
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It’s 5% sales tax now and by 2015, 10%. All to prevent the debt crisis. Yoshihiko Noda the Prime Minister is banking his career on this. Not much more to report on this except by ready for some slumping in economy there. (Boston.com – Sales tax)
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Mark Zuckerberg meets with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda for a talk that included how Facebook helps in disasters and emergencies. Facebook has 845 million users in the world and 10 million in Japan and growing fast. (PCMag – Zuckerberg)
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