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ABE ADMINISTRATION

COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 23, 2014
Nuclear energy fight highlights aging economy
The 'nuclear village' is at the root of the cronyism, corruption and inertia that continue to prolong Japan's malaise and dent its competitiveness. Tokyo gubernatorial candidate Morihiro Hosokawa threatens that village.
EDITORIALS
Jan 20, 2014
Cheaper yen demands caution
The yen's decline under the watch of the Abe administration has contributed to the popularity of his economic policy, but a furthering weakening would have disadvantages.
EDITORIALS
Jan 12, 2014
Teaching or brainwashing?
An education ministry council has approved the new standard for screening school textbooks after holding just two sessions. Such haste is deplorable as it suggests that the government seeks to impose particular views on children.
EDITORIALS
Dec 25, 2013
Breaching the weapons-export ban
It is deplorable that the Abe administration decided to provide rifle ammo to South Korean troops engaged in U.N. peacekeeping operations in South Sudan without consulting government officials first.
EDITORIALS
Dec 22, 2013
Abe's second strike against freedoms
On the heels of the enactment of the state secrets protection law, the Abe administration is preparing a bill that would criminalize the act of 'conspiracy' for the first time.
EDITORIALS
Dec 17, 2013
Heavy tax hit on households
Japan's tax guidelines for fiscal 2014 again reflect the Abe administration's apparent emphasis on providing economic benefits to corporations at the expense of households.
EDITORIALS
Dec 16, 2013
Defaulting to the old ways
The Abe administration seems to be reverting to an old energy policy by revisiting an old policymaking process, despite the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster.
EDITORIALS
Dec 12, 2013
Repeal the state secrets law
Repeal of the recently enacted state secrets law appears indispensable for ensuring that Japan remains an open society with democratic principles fully upheld.
EDITORIALS
Dec 11, 2013
Japan's future path with India
The Abe administration appears inclined to use Japan's relationship with India for expediency — as a means of checking China — when it should be cultivating longer-range cooperative ties.
EDITORIALS
Dec 6, 2013
Government without oversight
Even if the state secrets bill becomes a law, it will be important for people to continue grass-roots movements to oppose it and to prevent from being used to curb their right to know and to express their thought and opinions.
EDITORIALS
Dec 1, 2013
NSC council has dangerous flaws
The Upper House has enacted a law that establishes a Japanese version of the U.S. National Security Council. But there's no guarantee the NSC will contribute to the government's making rational security and diplomatic decisions.
EDITORIALS
Nov 11, 2013
Koizumi's nuclear power questions
Any energy policy by the Abe administration that fails to squarely answer the thorny questions posed by former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will not have credibility.
EDITORIALS
Oct 24, 2013
Mr. Abe's undemocratic secrecy bill
An Abe administration-sponsored bill to protect national security 'secrets' will undermine freedom of the press and people's right to know. Diet members should oppose it.
EDITORIALS
Oct 23, 2013
Keep the weapons export ban
A forum on security and defense power for the Abe administration appears likely to call for easing the ban on Japan's long-standing weapons export ban.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 22, 2013
Japan's 'helplessness' crisis
The biggest crisis in Japan's democracy today is that people know the prime minister is telling lies — intentionally or not — but they've given up even imagining alternative ways of politics.
EDITORIALS
Oct 10, 2013
Don't sell out Japan in TPP talks
The Abe administration's apparent rush to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks before yearend is disturbing given the lack of clarity so far on what Japan may be agreeing to.
EDITORIALS
Oct 9, 2013
Risky economic situation ahead
With the sales tax set to rise from 5 percent to 8 percent in April, it is all the more important that businesses strive to improve employment prospects and to raise workers' wages.
EDITORIALS
Sep 17, 2013
Change Japan's energy policy
The Abe administration should heed public opinion and set a clear timeline for ending Japan's reliance on nuclear power.
EDITORIALS
Aug 20, 2013
Minimum wage uptick
labor ministry advisory council recommends a 2 percent uptick in the minimum hourly wage to ¥763. But consumer price increases could offset the wage rise.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 25, 2013
Riding out the shifting political winds of Japan
LDP-Komeito dominance of the Upper House poll signals the return of political stability to Japan ? with a nationalistic flavor ? for the first time in seven years.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
As visitors surge, Japan seeks ways to make tourism eco-friendly
Much like other hot spots across Okinawa, Onna has diligently strived to captivate both domestic and international tourists, while at the same time grappling with the environmental strain induced by the influx of visitors.
G7 eyes plan on U.S.-led $50 billion aid package for Ukraine
A local resident visits the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Kishida talks up bolstered Latin American ties as China cements position
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida holds a news conference in Sao Paulo on Saturday.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.

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