60113 Therefore, it is increasingly regarded that "even if there are some secessionists, participants will be about ten members who can not help but approach the New Frontier Party, due to the situation of their electoral districts."
60114 The Communist Party published interviews of Kenji Miyamoto, Chairman of JCP in their party organ on the 1st.
60115 In the interview, Miyamoto, who was in hospital for about one month from late June last year, said, "I am asked by journalists when I will resign and questions like that," and emphasized his good health, saying, "I am not ashamed of it in the least but proud of it."
60116 The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum will hold an "APEC Information Summit" in May this year, gathering the ministers in charge of information and communications in Seoul.
60117 Government sources thus revealed on December 31.
60118 At the summit, the ministers will talk about diverse issues, including the development of an optical fiber network, standardization of information communications, and digitization of the public sector, aiming at the establishment of an information and communications infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region in the multi-media age, and this summit is planned to be held annually afterwards, taking the initiative in the promotion of information technology in the region.
60119 APII will be the Asia-Pacific version of the U.S.-led global information and communications infrastructure.
60120 But the U.S. initiative so far only focused on developed nations, and its rush demands faced strong criticism from developing countries.
60121 Therefore, this Information Summit will be the first minister-level meeting to adjust the interests of developing countries and developed nations including the United States.
60122 The Information Summit was privately suggested by South Korean President Kim Young-sam at the unofficial APEC summit meeting in Indonesia in December 1994, but it was neither published nor contained in the Bogor declaration, which was released after the meeting ended.
60123 The ROK government is now preparing the agenda off-stage, and will present practical suggestions at the senior-official level APEC meeting in Fukuoka in the middle of February.
60124 According to Chinese astrology, 1995 is the year of boar.
60125 According to the Statistics Bureau, Management and Coordination Agency, an estimated 10,410,000 Japanese were born in years of the boar.
60126 Among them, 5,090,000 are male and 5,320,000 are female, 230,000 more than the male.
60127 Dividing them according to the boar year they were born, the largest population of 2,340,000 was born in 1947, followed by the 1,990,000 in 1971, clearly showing the influence of the first and second baby booms.