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The consumption tax increase next April will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people's financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the impact of the hike, experts say.
Every parent is all too familiar with The Tantrum. The screaming, the flailing arms, the angry head butting — and the timing (normally in the most inconvenient public place possible).
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
Tucked away behind the main museums in Ueno, the Tokyo University Art Museum may not be on most people’s radar, but it is definitely one of the city’s top museums in terms of curatorial quality. Whenever I go there, I am always delighted by ...
Francisco Liriano showed up at PNC Park on Tuesday afternoon in a suit with his suitcase packed for a trip St. Louis. The message reverberated through the Pittsburgh Pirates clubhouse. After 21 years away from the playoffs, it was time for the best story ...
In a rare move, a senior U.S. military officer has questioned Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s drive to amend the pacifist Constitution, expressing concern it could adversely affect ties with China and South Korea. “That’s not helpful to the region, quite frankly,” the officer based ...
New Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi said Sunday the debate over lifting the ban on collective self-defense may affect his party’s coalition with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who heads the conservative LDP, is intending to lift the ban by changing ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he doesn't have a specific time frame for changing the ban on collective self-defense as he prepares to address the U.N. General Assembly.
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera has attempted to dispel concerns that the Self-Defense Forces might use force in a far-off land if Japan lifts its ban on collective self-defense, saying such a scenario isn’t being entertained by current debate. The remarks Friday come as the ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's approach to changing the government's traditional position on the right to collective self-defense undermines the foundation of Japanese democracy.
A responsibility-shirking government is ultimately the people's problem — and responsibility — just as much as the nuclear disaster and all the nation's other problems are, argues Colin P.A. Jones.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday that Japan must consider what role it should play in global affairs as he expressed a willingness to advance the national debate on lifting the self-imposed ban on collective self-defense. “We will consider and pursue where Japan should ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's initiative to lift Japan's self-imposed ban on engaging in collective self-defense may not gain public support, New Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi suggests
Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso said Tuesday that his recent remark suggesting Japan follow the example of the Nazis in Germany in revising its pacifist Constitution would not affect Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics. “I’ve already retracted the comment and I think ...
In a rare move, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga criticized a new Supreme Court justice Wednesday for appearing to express reservations about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s drive to reinterpret the Constitution. “I feel great discomfort,” Suga said after Justice Tsuneyuki Yamamoto appeared to suggest ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is poised to achieve his long-held goal of reinterpreting Article 9 of the Constitution to allow Japan to exercise its right to engage in collective self-defense under the U.N. Charter. In February, Abe reconvened an advisory panel of security experts ...
Hot on the heels of their romp to victory in the race for control of the House of Councilors, the Liberal Democratic Party is chomping at the bit to overhaul the Constitution, which has not been amended since it was signed into law in ...