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EDITORIALS
Jan 13, 2006

Mr. Chen back on the offensive

Hopes that Taiwan's president, Mr. Chen Shui-bian, might alter course and reach out to China were shattered last week. Mr. Chen's New Year address made plain that he remains as combative as ever, despite having lost the upper hand in cross-strait relations with Beijing in 2005. The president's determination...
EDITORIALS
Aug 20, 2005

First step of the peace process

Israel has begun its unilateral withdrawal of troops and evacuation of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip. This is the first time that settlements have been dismantled from land that Israel occupied in the third Middle East War (1967). There have been reports of small-scale clashes between settlers...
EDITORIALS
Jul 1, 2004

Impact on global security

In the past, stability in Saudi Arabia -- which holds an estimated one-fourth of the world's oil reserves -- has beckoned droves of foreign oil engineers and specialists. In recent months, however, a series of terrorist attacks has rocked the kingdom, prompting Western companies to withdraw some of their...
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Apr 13, 2004

No room for 'outsiders'

In "The Japanese," Japanologist and former U.S. ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer wrote that "no people have committed themselves more enthusiastically to internationalism than the Japanese or have so specifically repudiated nationalism."
COMMENTARY
Apr 4, 2004

Taiwan invasion scenario not so unlikely

HONG KONG -- It's unimaginable that China would ever go to war against Taiwan, right? Until recently, that's what I thought.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2004

LDP to submit bill on constitutional reform

The Liberal Democratic Party plans to submit to the current Diet session a bill aimed at effecting a referendum on constitutional reform, senior LDP lawmakers said Monday.
JAPAN
Apr 22, 2003

NCP to ban Matsunami from holding party posts

Despite mounting public pressure for Kenshiro Matsunami to resign from the House of Representatives, the New Conservative Party decided Monday it would only prevent him from holding any party posts.
JAPAN
Apr 2, 2003

Mergers lead to formation of 11 new municipalities

Eleven municipalities across Japan came into being Tuesday through municipal mergers, reflecting the acceleration of such consolidation ahead of the March 2005 expiration of the special merger law.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2003

Panel brings Sakai's arrest one step closer

In another blow to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and the ruling coalition, the House of Representatives Steering Committee agreed Thursday to have the full chamber vote on a request to arrest LDP lawmaker Takanori Sakai over alleged political fund law violations.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2003

Transsexual out to change family registry law

Last month, several transsexuals petitioned some 20 Diet members for legal changes that would allow people who have undergone sex-change operations to switch their gender on official registries.
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2003

Rare LDP plug to promote partner

Taro Aso, policy affairs chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is expected to appear in a promotional video for ruling coalition partner New Komeito, it was learned Sunday.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2003

New Diet session opens up new questions

The Diet opens a 150-day session Monday amid widespread speculation in Nagata-cho that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi may dissolve the House of Representatives and call a snap election sometime this year -- possibly even during the session.
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2003

LDP expresses support for Koizumi's war on deflation

The Liberal Democratic Party, holding its national convention Thursday in Tokyo, sounded a note of support for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's determination to battle deflation.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2002

Limited voting rights for foreigners

OSAKA -- Foreigners with permanent resident status will get to vote in a plebiscite approved Wednesday by the Takaishi Municipal Assembly in Osaka Prefecture on whether the municipality should merge with the neighboring city of Sakai.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 16, 2002

Dealing with Kim Jong Il

SEOUL -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang on Tuesday represents the biggest step in relations between the two countries since the end of World War II in 1945. Koizumi, though, must keep a cool head in the face of any strategic ploy that...
EDITORIALS
Sep 3, 2002

Mr. Tanaka's work begins anew

In Sunday's much-heralded gubernatorial election in Nagano Prefecture, former reformist Gov. Yasuo Tanaka made a triumphant comeback, dealing a heavy blow to anti-Tanaka forces and other conservative hardliners who have vehemently opposed his popular campaign against dam construction and other pork-barrel...
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2002

Opposition parties to bring no-confidence motion to vote

The four main opposition parties agreed Monday to jointly submit a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 8, 2002

The world waiting on Musharraf to act

Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf finds himself under increasing international pressure, especially from the United States, to stop the proxy war in Kashmir, a state that both Pakistan and India claim. Pervez is being told, not asked, to stop cross-border infiltration and terrorism in India....
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 22, 2002

New strains of anti-Semitism

LONDON -- Sixty years after the Holocaust, is anti-Semitism spreading in Europe? The question is being asked increasingly in a number of countries, notably Britain, which fought the Nazis through World War II, and France, which lived for four years under a collaborationist regime that persecuted Jews...
EDITORIALS
Jan 12, 2002

A new framework for stability

The Korean Peninsula remains a potential flash point. The question for 2002 is whether North and South Korea, still technically at war, will be able to promote stability in the region. The answer partly depends on how domestic politics develops in South Korea, which will hold local elections in June...
EDITORIALS
Nov 6, 2001

Mr. Obasanjo walks the tightrope

Nigeria is once again on edge. Last week, soldiers reportedly massacred more than 200 civilians in retaliation for the killing of 19 of their comrades. The army is now engaged in the largest internal military deployment since the 1960s civil war.
BUSINESS
Jun 13, 2001

Hun Sen asks Koizumi to avoid cutting ODA

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen asked Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Tuesday not to cut Japan's official development assistance to Cambodia when Tokyo reviews aid as part of its fiscal reforms, a Japanese official said.
JAPAN
Jun 12, 2001

Cambodia seeks aid to cut army

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday asked Japan to provide $15 million toward the country's efforts to cut its military and provide discharged soldiers with education and job-training projects.
JAPAN
May 30, 2001

Vote delayed on foreigners' suffrage bill

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Tuesday that a pending bill to allow permanent foreign residents to vote in local elections will not be put to vote during the current Diet session, which ends in late June.
JAPAN
May 27, 2001

Seoul's Han tells Tanaka to act on disputed history textbook

South Korea demanded Saturday that Japan take "visible action" over recently approved Japanese junior high school history textbooks that critics say whitewash Japan's past military aggression, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said.
JAPAN
May 12, 2001

LDP agrees to Diet vote on foreign suffrage bill

In a move designed to flatter its key coalition ally, the Liberal Democratic Party will agree to hold a Lower House vote during the current Diet session on a bill to grant foreign residents suffrage, LDP policy affairs chief Taro Aso said Friday.
JAPAN
Apr 26, 2001

Cambodian envoy seeks election aid

Visiting Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, meeting with Japanese counterpart Yohei Kono on Wednesday, asked for Japanese financial support for local elections scheduled for February 2002.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2001

Minority suffrage bill gets a nudge

Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, secretary general of New Komeito and a strong advocate of a controversial bill to grant suffrage to ethnic minorities, on Friday urged Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori to start deliberations on the bill after the fiscal 2001 budget clears the Diet.
Workers say corporate South Korea was warned about questionable U.S. visas before Hyundai raid
Activists holding signs that reads "No one is illegal!" protest against a huge immigration raid last week in the U.S. state of Georgia, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Tuesday.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Goldman sells Tokyo office area to JR East for over ¥50 billion
GranTokyo South Tower (center). East Japan Railway has bought the 14th to 18th floors of the office building at a price of more than ¥50 billion from Goldman Sachs Group.
Ed Sheeran teams up with Tokyo’s Oedo Line
The “Oh! Ed! Collaboration Campaign,” launched on Tokyo's Keio Line to celebrate the Friday release of Ed Sheeran’s latest album, “Play,” includes a eight-car train dedicated to the pop star's music and trivia related to his career
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.
Search is on for loopholes in Japan’s $550 billion investment pledge
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick argues that U.S. President Donald Trump has sole authority to invest Japan's promised $550 billion.
In rural Hokkaido, the stops and starts of tourism revival on full display
Redevelopment plans for Kawayu Onsen have hit some snags — an example of how bringing tourists back to declining rural communities is far from easy work.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight
By Mai Yoshikawa

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