11/17/2008

The G20 fails to rejoice that Japan is joining in the Depression Nouveau.
Sometimes headlines just don’t parse well.
Japan joins Europe in recession; G20 fails to cheer –Reuters:
This oddly worded headline has filled every entry in this afternoon’s google news.

Yeah, yeah, the headline has a semicolon not a comma between “recession” and “cheer”. However, it still sounds like the G20 nations should cheer and rejoice that Japan is joining in the recession but failed to (because they were too depressed or something).
This is Japan’s first “official” recession in seven years, but life here in Tokyo goes on. The Prada and LV stores on Omotesando in Tokyo’s Harajuku were packed last Sunday and lines in front of the new H&M was more than three hours long.