New York Times: Japan’s presumptive prime minister breathed new life Monday into efforts to curb global warming, standing by a campaign pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent in the next 10 years from 1990 levels – a target that environmentalists said puts Japan at the forefront of the fight against climate change. Nonetheless, the incoming prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, whose center-left Democrats swept to a landmark electoral victory last month, attached what appeared to be a new …