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Silvio Berlusconi has failed in his attempt to topple the Italian government, leaving him weaker than ever and zapping the aura of invincibility that has surrounded him for two decades as he faces the possible loss of his Senate seat and a ban from ...
Hatsudai has a lot going for it. This quiet low-rise residential neighborhood just minutes west of Shinjuku boasts a friendly traditional shōtengai (shopping street) and a lively annual Awa Odori dance festival. Now add to that a really outstanding restaurant. Anis opened in early ...
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
In the glitzy and gossipy world of Japanese celebrity, hardly a week goes by without revelations being made about — or made by — Ichikawa Ebizo XI. For years, the charismatic young star of the kabuki world has never long been out of the ...
Reigning champion Kei Nishikori made quick work of Feliciano Lopez, walloping the Spaniard in a straight-sets victory Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Rakuten Japan Open. The world No. 13 Nishikori needed little over an hour to put away Lopez, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 ...
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its pacifist coalition partner, New Komeito, will begin talks shortly among working-level officials on Japan’s right to exercise collective self-defense, although the discussions are expected to be tough and possibly divisive. With a government panel on legal frameworks ...
Taichi Sakaiya, 78, the man credited with persuading Osaka Mayor and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) co-leader Toru Hashimoto to trade the world of television punditry for the world of politics, has been appointed as an adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ...
The upheaval in the opposition camp shows no sign of letting up, as witnessed by the Wednesday sacking of Kenji Eda as secretary-general of the 36 Diet member Your Party, a move that may divide its ranks. Amid the opposition disarray, the Liberal Democratic ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition pledged Wednesday to restore Japan’s ailing public finances, reckoning that promoting fiscal rehabilitation is essential to maintain economic growth. In a final draft of a midterm fiscal reform plan, the Abe administration and the ruling bloc — the ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, it hurts the victims of the Imperial Japanese military's war of terror that ministers of your government and members of parliament continue to visit Yasukuni Shrine.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday his administration will stand firm against China over its unilateral exploration for natural gas in contested waters in the East China Sea. Abe was commenting on proposals issued by a Liberal Democratic Party panel calling on the government ...
Kiyomitsu YokoyamaProperty manager, 34 (Japanese)I would like to buy a house in the future, so while housing loan taxes are low now, I would like to see Mr. Abe help those looking to buy houses by lowering these taxes even further. Also, I think ...
The Liberal Democratic Party will receive ¥15.062 billion in state subsidies this year, up 3.5 percent from the previous estimate, after the ruling party’s landslide victory in Sunday’s House of Councilors election, a Jiji Press estimate has revealed. The LDP came out of the ...
About a quarter of voters who support no particular political party cast their ballots for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the proportional representation part of Sunday’s Upper House election, according to a Jiji Press exit poll. With 25.8 percent, the LDP garnered the ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged Monday to stay focused on efforts to revive Japan’s moribund economy and to not aggressively pursue his goal of amending the pacifist Constitution, even though his Liberal Democratic Party-New Komeito bloc now controls the Diet. Speaking to reporters a ...
Keiko Itokazu, 65, who opposes the government’s plan to replace U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma with a new airstrip in a less-populated part of Okinawa Island, won an Upper House seat Sunday by defeating Liberal Democratic Party candidate Masaaki Asato. The Okinawa electoral ...
Sunday’s Upper House election saw two Liberal Democratic Party candidates win in the five-seat Tokyo electoral district for the first time in 27 years, while a Japanese Communist Party candidate regained a seat for the first time in 12 years. The Democratic Party of ...