Prime Minister Abe must explain what benefits his latest initiative — human resources development — will bring people and at what cost.

The education ministry should make public the discussions its panel held on Kake Gakuen's plan to open a new veterinary science school.

Regional banks pursuing mergers to ensure their survival should also scrutinize their operations to find areas where they can improve their performances.

If the situation between India and Pakistan were not so tragic, it would be absurd. There is far more that unites the two countries than divides them.

Without wages hikes it will be difficult to turn the economy's continuing uptrend into sustained growth.

There is little to celebrate a decade after the global financial crisis.

A series of scandals has exposed the inadequacies of a guideline that governs the management of official documents by government ministries and agencies.

The Chinese government should respect the will of Taiwan's voters on the unification issue.

Opposition parties are once again in realignment mode but it remains to be seen whether they can put together a force capable of defeating the LDP.

The government is touting the economic benefits of opening casinos in Japan, but they may be overblown.

The Abe administration should not seek to amend the Constitution just because political circumstances make it possible.

After 16 years of bloody fighting, there is no indication that Washington has a better sense of how to address the festering conflict in Afghanistan.