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COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Aug 23, 2010

LDP riding out momentum with unhappy campers

The mood within the No. 1 opposition Liberal Democratic Party is far from jovial even though the July 11 Upper House election saw it regain some of the ground it lost to the Democratic Party of Japan in last year's general election.
LIFE
Aug 22, 2010

Korean-Japanese history in modern times

The following is a chronology of the key points in modern Korean-Japanese history.
EDITORIALS
Aug 19, 2010

Withdrawal from society

The Cabinet Office in February surveyed 3,287 people aged 15 to 39 and decided that 1.79 percent of them are living in seclusion at home and have withdrawn from society. On the basis of this survey, the government estimates that 696,000 people across the nation are socially withdrawn. Surprisingly, 3.99...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / THE ZEIT GIST
Aug 17, 2010

Appeals to culture, tradition ignore the historical facts

In the upcoming Australian general election, there is one issue that the major parties unanimously agree on: opposition to Japanese whaling. Voters are overwhelmingly antagonistic to whaling and Australian politicians have demonstrated an increasing willingness to listen to public opinion.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 15, 2010

Opposite ends in poll scrabble wildly for Aussie middle ground

This is the winter of a discontented electorate in Australia. Less than a week before Aug. 21's general election, the voters are deeply disgruntled and proving decidedly hard to please, while the main parties appear to be heading for a close finish.
EDITORIALS
Aug 12, 2010

An apology to South Korea

In a statement aimed at South Korea, Prime Minister Naoto Kan apologized Tuesday for Japan's past colonial rule of Korea. The statement, endorsed by the Cabinet, is a positive step in Japan's efforts to build a solid relationship with South Korea.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2010

Screeners question if benefits outweigh the costs

Concerns are growing over the future of a public program to dispatch foreign teachers to Japanese public schools as a key administrative reform panel has urged the government-linked body that runs the program to drastically cut its overall budget.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 8, 2010

Salvaging Britain's failed rights revolution

LONDON — The budget-cutting austerity program of Britain's new coalition government has been claiming all the headlines, but David Cameron's Cabinet is breaking with its Labour predecessor in another key area as well: human rights. Indeed, the human rights experiment that Tony Blair's Labour government...
JAPAN
Aug 4, 2010

Kan renews plea for tax-hike cooperation

Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Tuesday reiterated the need to hold nonpartisan talks on tax reform, telling a session of the Lower House Budget Committee that the government must curb the growing national debt.
EDITORIALS
Aug 4, 2010

Mr. Kan addresses budget panel

As deliberations in an extraordinary session of the Diet started, Prime Minister Naoto Kan for the first time spoke as prime minister in the Lower House Budget Committee, the most important and powerful committee in the Diet. He said Cabinet members, members of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan and...
JAPAN
Jul 31, 2010

DPJ, Kan in hot seat as Diet opens

The first extraordinary Diet session under the administration of Prime Minister Naoto Kan convened Friday, with the opposition looking to pressure the ruling coalition following the recent loss of its Upper House majority.
JAPAN
Jul 31, 2010

Kan proposes to slash Diet ranks

Prime Minister Naoto Kan vowed Friday to prop up the economy by slashing wasteful spending, including reducing the ranks of lawmakers, while budgeting for projects that stimulate the job market and "bring back vigor."
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2010

Tax miscue caused poll loss, Kan admits

Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Thursday admitted his push to open debate on hiking the consumption tax cost his Democratic Party of Japan seats in the July 11 Upper House election but called on his colleagues to support his Cabinet and unite for the tough road ahead.
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2010

Pair hanged; Chiba attends as witness

Two inmates were hanged Wednesday in the first executions since the Democratic Party of Japan took power 10 months ago.
EDITORIALS
Jul 29, 2010

Limiting budget requests

The government has adopted guidelines for fiscal 2011 budget requests. Government spending and bond issuance will be at the same levels as in fiscal 2010. For the sake of long-term financial reconstruction, Cabinet ministers must refrain from bloating their budget requests. Since money will be tight,...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2010

Safeguarding financial stability

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Central bankers around the world failed to see the current financial crisis coming before its beginnings in 2007. Martin Cihak of the International Monetary Fund reported in July 2007 that, of 47 central banks found to publish financial stability reports (FSRs), "virtually all" gave...

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