It has also exacerbated the sense among Okinawans that "mainland Japan" is perfectly willing to continue its discriminatory treatment of Okinawa by leaving the island to carry the burden of the U.S.-Japan security relationship from which all Japan benefits.
Thanks to the burden of Social Security and Medicare, the GAOs assessment is grim.
By contrast, cloud computing allows free configuration of virtual machine instances, thereby sharing the burden of security with the user.
"In view of the management burden and the security risk generated by prolonged storage of the forfeited ivory stockpile, the [government] considers it necessary to dispose of ivory by destruction," the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said in a statement.
It would like Japan to bear more of the burden of regional security, and it applauds Mr Abe's wish to reinterpret Japan's pacifist constitution to allow the country more military latitude.
The tax break, instituted in 1975 to help families of low and moderate wage earners offset the burden of Social Security taxes, added $2,200 to the average filer's return, according to TIME magazine who looked at why the credit is so often overlooked.
Thus, countries like Japan and Germany, whose military capabilities were reduced to purely defensive postures following the atrocities of World War II, have once again been re-militarizing in recent years under the impetus of what US military strategists call "the need to share the burden of global security".
President Bush quickly promised $20 billion, and everyone expected the federal government to assume the burden of additional security.
To objections over his close alliance with Mr. Bush, Mr. Blair asks if detractors would prefer the United States be left to shoulder the burden of international security by itself.
Democrats would have blocked Mr. Bush's personal accounts, and put most of the burden of rescuing Social Security on the affluent.
