Associated Press: Japan will push for an easier target for reducing greenhouse gases in the next international pact on global warming, a government official said Monday. The Kyoto Protocol of 1997 requires the industrial nations that ratified it to cut emissions below 1990 levels, but critics say that is too difficult because emissions in many countries have risen dramatically since then. Japan will push to set the base year as 2005 in an agreement that is meant to take effect when the Kyoto …