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Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker, defended his disclosure of top-secret U.S. spying programs in an online chat Monday with The Guardian newspaper and attacked U.S. officials for calling him a traitor. “The U.S. government is not going to be able to cover ...
Keeping track of your assets Money Forward is a personal financial asset management service (in Japanese) that works similar to the U.S.-based service Mint.com. With more than 160 partners including banks, credit-card companies and mobile carriers, the service automatically pulls all your financial information ...
Edward Snowden, the fugitive former CIA employee and NSA contractor who leaked secrets about America’s spying operations, often hung out online with foreigners in Japan who shared his interests in anime, video games, martial arts, the stock market and the expat lifestyle. Snowden, who ...
The Toronto Comics Arts Festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, has of late made its name bringing over cutting-edge Japanese artists for signings, live drawing sessions and speaking events. The atmosphere at this year’s event, held in May, in many ways like ...
Manu Ginobili ran onto the floor as fans stood and screamed. He went to the bench, and they chanted his name. The sights and sounds of so many San Antonio spring nights were back Sunday — and the real party might be just a ...
The Lower House passed a bill Tuesday that would cut five of its 300 districts amid mounting pressure to rectify vote-value disparities that have plagued national elections. Most recently, the December general election has been ruled unconstitutional by several high courts due to disparities ...
While the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enjoys high support rates, hovering around 70 percent, its very legitimacy is being questioned. More than a dozen high courts have handed down rulings confirming that vote-value disparities tainted the Dec. 16 general election that returned ...
Another court ruled Thursday that December’s general election was unconstitutional due to a significant disparity in the weight of votes, but refused to nullify the results in the district of contention. The Tokyo High Court made the ruling in a lawsuit filed by a ...
Election boards in Okayama and Shimane appeal court rulings that invalidated the results of the 2012 Lower House election over an unconstitutional gap in vote weights.
A group of lawyers is poised to file suits across Japan the day after the Upper House election this summer, seeking to invalidate the results due to wide vote-value disparities.
On the heels of several high court rulings that the December poll that returned his party to power was unconstitutional and in some cases voided local-level results, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday that “he will work to resolve” the vote weight disparity compromising ...
Another court rules that the outcome of the December election was unconstitutional and invalid in a specific district, citing a significant disparity in the weight of votes between different areas.
Despite a spate of high court rulings that last year’s general election was unconstitutional and even invalid due to large vote disparities, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party doesn’t think it is necessary to hold another Lower House campaign as long as it works on ...
The Liberal Democratic Party discloses a flawed proposal to alter the electoral system toward less vote-value disparity between Lower House districts.
The Hiroshima High Court becomes the first court in the nation to invalidate results from last year's Lower House election because of unconstitutional vote-value disparities.
The Sapporo High Court ruled Thursday that it was unconstitutional to hold last year’s general election without correcting the regional disparity in voting weights, backing a similar decision made by the Tokyo High Court the previous day. The court, however, dismissed the plaintiffs’ demand ...
The Tokyo High Court rules that the vote weight disparity in a single-seat Tokyo constituency in December's general election is unconstitutional, but refuses to nullify the outcome.