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    I just stumbled on the Japanese Wikipedia stub for Parecon. I got to wondering if anyone had written anything about participatory economics in Japanese. The searcy didn’t come up with much. I’ve been using [SanakaGata] as in Participatory Education for Participatory Economics too. The Wikipedia entry uses [SanYoGata] and has an interesting way of boiling down ‘balance job complex.’ (Baransu no Toreta FukuGou RouDou)  I’ll have to talk with some natives about whether it makes sense to them or not.

    If Z gets Japanese language support I’ll be able to move a lot of my Mixi presence (Japan’s facebook) over here.

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      I'd like to win social change, realized that from reading Noam Chomsky books, finding Znet and plowing through Michael Albert's appeals for the last ten years or so. I had never really thougt about corporations until an exchange with Michael Albert in the Zforums long ago. I come from a family of plumbers (and teachers and bricklayers and nurses ..)  in Pennsylvania, live in Japan (a laid back part) now. Too busy with work and family to be as active as I'd like be.. I am a Graded Direct Method teacher of English (http://gdm-japan.net/). I.A. Richards made teaching English as a New Language worthwhile in 1945 with English Through Pictures(http://englishthroughpictures.com/). Book 3 came out in 1957 an is the core of a Liberal Arts Education using 1000-word vocabulary. You teach and learn with "intellectual rectitude" when using GDM/EP. I use free software. I thinkemacs org-mode and lisp help train my brain. I like gnu social's quitter and quit.im, and Diaspora too.

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