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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
May 5, 2017
Anti-Japanese rhetoric of South Korean presidential campaign won't survive geopolitical reality, experts say
Given the political realities of the region, experts aren't worried about the tough anti-Japanese rhetoric coming out of the South Korean presidential election.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 27, 2016
Trump's win was unusual but not historic
The truly historic elections reshape or realign U.S. politics. There are many reasons to believe that 2016 isn't one of them.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 9, 2016
Trump's to-do list in Asia
America's president-elect needs to do some damage control if he wants the U.S. to profit from the Asian century.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 19, 2016
What Hillary must do to win over Bernie voters
Hillary Clinton faces an uphill battle to convince Sanders supporters to help her defeat Donald Trump.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 14, 2016
Media gamed Democratic primary
The vast majority of U.S. corporate media outlets appear to have had their thumbs on the scale for Hillary Clinton throughout the Democratic primaries.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 14, 2016
Hillary Clinton has a foreign policy problem
Hillary Clinton needs to win the support of Bernie Sanders' liberal supporters if she is to defeat Trump, but they distrust her hawkish foreign policy record.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 11, 2016
Keiko Fujimori heads to Peru runoff presidential poll after bagging most first-round votes
Keiko Fujimori won the first round of Peru's presidential election on Sunday, though the race to be her opponent in the June runoff was locked in a virtual tie between two contenders, three exit polls showed.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 20, 2016
Political violence is an American tradition
This election may not be a showcase for the intelligence and statesmanship of the U.S. elite, but the passion and engagement it has infused into U.S. politics could have a silver lining.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 23, 2016
Donald Trump relishes wrecking Republicans
It's time to change the topic to Donald Trump's tax records.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 18, 2016
For Sanders and Clinton, politics is personal
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders represent two worldviews: one for whom wealth and privilege have long been assumed as her due, the other whose sympathies lie with those who are less fortunate because he once was.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 18, 2016
How Scalia's death reshapes the 2016 election
The Supreme Court vacancy caused by the death of Antonin Scalia puts social issues at the heart of the U.S. presidential campaign.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 16, 2016
Military cuts can fund Sanders' social programs
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders could fund his ambitious social programs by slashing America's bloated military budget.
EDITORIALS
Feb 15, 2016
A tumultuous campaign in the U.S.
Anger and insecurity threaten to shape, if not determine, the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2015
Sanders is a socialist and so are you
By global standards, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sander's campaign platform is mainstream policy, but in America it's viewed with deep suspicion bred of ignorance.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2015
Clinton's weaknesses hidden by GOP disarray
Hillary Clinton doesn't excite important constituencies — young people, independents, possibly even minority voters — and that could sink her bid for the White House.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 3, 2015
Putin would eat President Trump for lunch
Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't make deals with brash, showy businessmen like Donald Trump. He crushes them.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 13, 2015
America's political system is broken
The fact that U.S. presidential candidates must adjust their positions to conform to the banal, the uninspired, the illegal, with total disregard for the will or the greater good of the people, demonstrates that the American political system is broken.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 19, 2015
Indian spy's role alleged in Sri Lankan president's election defeat
Sri Lanka expelled the Colombo station chief of India's spy agency in the run-up to this month's presidential election, political and intelligence sources said, accusing him of helping the opposition oust President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 18, 2015
Okada defeats Hosono to win DPJ presidential election
Following a close runoff against Goshi Hosono, Katsuya Okada is elected president of the Democratic Party of Japan.
EDITORIALS
Nov 1, 2007
Mr. Moriya's testimony
Testifying as a sworn witness in the Diet, former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya admitted that an extraordinarily close relationship existed between him and a former executive of defense equipment trader Yamada Corp. But he denied any wrongdoing that may bring a criminal charge against him. Mr....

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