The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the biggest opposition Democratic Party are likely to submit separate bills for Lower House electoral system reform after meeting with speaker Tadamori Oshima on Wednesday. Officials from both parties explained their respective bills, both of which contain the ...
Wiretaps of the pope’s private conversations allegedly recorded by a racy social climber and a Spanish prelate are rocking the Catholic Church after confidential information including claims of theft and debauchery was passed to investigative journalists. Two books by the investigative journalists set to ...
The central government must exert control over the regions to push through regulatory reforms needed for economic revival, said the head of a council on special economic zones. “Things will turn really bad when you just rely on local governments,” Tatsuo Hatta, 72, said ...
Only by addressing the weakening of investment-led growth, bureacratic inefficiencies and worsening pollution, and then shifting to an innovation-based, environmentally sustainable growth model, can China continue to prosper and ultimately achieve high-income status.
Xi's effort to root out corruption has empowered both the party and the reformers. The question is how far they will take their reform ambitions.
When Evernote Corp. CEO Phil Libin visited Tokyo’s Shinagawa Joshi Gakuin in May, the combined junior and senior high school for girls came under the media spotlight — not only because it was unusual for a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur to visit a girls’ ...
Japan will redouble its efforts to realize United Nations Security Council reforms going into 2015, which marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations, officials say. To achieve “tangible progress” at the U.N. General Assembly in autumn 2015, Japan will work ...
A law to transform how the world’s biggest pension fund is run can wait and may even be shelved, said a ruling party official, contradicting his deputy policy chief who called it the top priority. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s team can achieve adjustments at ...
If Chinese leader Xi Jinping is serious about enacting reforms, he should implement political and judiciary changes designed to strip the party of its privilege and firmly establish the rule of law.
China will allow a batch of three to five banks funded by private investment this year to operate under a trial as part of the country’s financial reforms, according to the China Banking Regulatory Commission. China will guide private investment to participate in the ...
National university exams are notorious for their emphasis on book learning. Once a year, examinees throng test sites, doing their best to regurgitate heaps of facts in the hopes of getting into the university of their choice. Once done, however, the pressure to study ...
China remains a colossus, but its future is increasingly clouded.
