McClatchy-Tribune: The Japanese government plans to propose setting more than one base year in the post-Kyoto Protocol framework, in a bid to improve the current system believed to be disadvantageous to Japan as it has already made progress in energy saving, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. In the proposed framework that will succeed the Kyoto accord in 2013, the government also will call on the United Nations to impose obligations on countries considered by Japan as newly industrialized countries, such …