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ELECTION 2012

JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 16, 2012
Nippon Ishin seen in coalition lottery
Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) is stumbling into Sunday's Lower House election with polls showing it will pick up just a fraction of the seats it was eyeing, as internal squabbles have sown confusion and distrust among voters.
JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 15, 2012
LDP remains the front-runner in Kyodo's final survey
The Liberal Democratic Party held onto its No. 1 position in the fifth and final pre-election poll by Kyodo News, while the Democratic Party of Japan managed to replace the recently formed Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) in second place.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 15, 2012
Idled reactors' fate holds center stage in nuclear hub Fukui
On a snowy afternoon just a few days before the general election, local politicians and many residents of Fukui Prefecture were in a state of shock and wondering what the future holds, after a team of nuclear experts declared it is highly likely that a fault under the Tsuruga nuclear plant's reactor 2 is active.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ELECTION 2012
Dec 15, 2012
JGB market braces for Abe's return
The worst prime minister for Japanese government bonds in almost two decades is poised to return, ousting the best since 2006.
JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 15, 2012
Can LDP take Upper House as well?
With polls suggesting the Liberal Democratic Party-New Komeito pair will probably return to power after Sunday's Lower House election, political analysts and insiders are already focusing on whether the alliance can win a majority in the Upper House race next summer and control the Diet.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 14, 2012
Dismayed Tohoku faces first post-3/11 poll
A mere 15 minutes before Azuma Konno, a Democratic Party of Japan candidate running in Sunday's Lower House election, was set to make a stump speech in front of JR Sendai Station last Friday evening, a 7.4-magnitude quake struck deep off Miyagi's shore, flooding one coastal district with 1-meter-high tsunami.
JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 14, 2012
Disaster-hit areas seek more than just words
In areas ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, voters frustrated with the slow pace of recovery and anxious about their future are looking for their elected leaders to put together a faster and more robust reconstruction effort.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 14, 2012
Older voter glut helps politicians avoid long-range problems
Japan faces structural problems that threaten future generations, including snowballing government debt, swelling social security costs, a low birthrate and a rapidly aging population.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 14, 2012
Kan, campaign aides taken to Tokyo hospital after minor road accident
Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan and several of his election campaign staff were taken to a hospital Thursday after his campaign car scraped posts on the center divider of an intersection in Fuchu, Tokyo, police said.
JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 14, 2012
LDP likely to win nearly 300 seats in election: poll
The Liberal Democratic Party is continuing its strong run heading into Sunday's election and is on course to win close to 300 of the 480 seats in the Lower House, according to the latest Kyodo News survey.
BUSINESS / ELECTION 2012
Dec 12, 2012
Major parties give themselves wiggle room on thorny TPP
More than a year after Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda declared to the global community his interest in Japan joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade accord, the nation remains unconvinced of the merits and major political parties are taking equivocal stances, turning it into a major election issue.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 12, 2012
Yokota, '200 other abductees' dead: Ishihara
Shintaro Ishihara, leader of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party), said he believes Megumi Yokota and other Japanese abducted by North Korea are dead and called for revising the pacifist Constitution to allow Japan to threaten to wage war against such countries.
JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 12, 2012
Nuclear power most common topic in Twitter messages on election
A check of messages on Twitter over the three weeks through Sunday found that nuclear power was the most commented-on topic among seven selected campaign issues.
JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 11, 2012
Nippon Ishin leaders send mixed signals about postelection mergers
Confusion continues about what Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) will do after Sunday's Lower House election, with top leaders making contradictory statements over whether they would join forces with the Liberal Democratic Party to possibly form a two-thirds majority in both Diet chambers.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 11, 2012
'Changed' Abe makes case for fresh chance
In an article published Monday in the monthly Bungei Shunju magazine, Liberal Democratic Party President Shinzo Abe apologized for abandoning the prime ministership a year into his term in 2007 but insisted he is a changed man and deserving of another chance.
JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 7, 2012
Third force's reform proposals flashy but unreal
The so-called main third force parties hope to cast themselves after the Lower House election as viable alternatives to the established parties by proposing ambitious, even radical, reforms in a number of areas.
JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 7, 2012
LDP: Gays don't need special rights
The Liberal Democratic Party believes that no additional measures are required to protect the rights of gays and lesbians, though almost all of the other major parties running in the Dec. 16 general election feel otherwise, a survey by a sexual minority advocacy group has found.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 7, 2012
Many voices but no clear messages
With so many parties — and their seemingly mix-and-match policy positions — vying in the Dec. 16 Lower House election, voters are facing a difficult choice. Even so, all the sudden mergers and policy rejiggering suggest the new parties would be no better than their predecessors at breaking the tradition of broken promises in politics.
BUSINESS / ELECTION 2012
Dec 7, 2012
Sharp's boomtown seeks salve for bust
The city of Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, home to a major state-of-the-art Sharp factory, rode the boom when the electronics maker was leading the world in liquid-crystal display TV sets.
JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 7, 2012
Hashimoto tweets challenge to election law
Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) founder and deputy leader Toru Hashimoto continued his personal Twitter feed Thursday, two days after campaigning officially began and a day after Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said the legality of his actions would be left up to the police.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
Golden Week crowds greeted with high temperatures as holiday period kicks off
The departure lobby for domestic flights is crowded with travelers at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Saturday, the first day of this year's Golden Week holidays.
India seen overtaking Japan in nominal GDP in 2025
The skyline of central Mumbai's financial district
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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