The minister for disaster reconstruction, Masahiro Imamura, stepped down Wednesday over a gaffe where he said it was better the 2011 quake and tsunami hit the Tohoku region and not near Tokyo.
Victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami have expressed anger at insensitive remarks made on Tuesday by reconstruction minister Masahiro Imamura over the disaster. "The remarks are outrageous," said a 75-year-old man who has been evacuated to a temporary house in the city of ...
The approval rating of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet has risen 6.3 percentage points.
Japan's opposition parties plan to seek the resignation of the regional revitalization minister over his description of the curators of cultural properties as a "cancer" that must be "eradicated." Kozo Yamamoto made the remark Sunday at a seminar in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, arguing that Japan's ...
Kozo Yamamoto apologizes for a vicious slam on museum curators but says he won’t resign.
The government on Friday replaced a parliamentary vice minister who was warned last year after he was seen being carried across a puddle in a typhoon-hit area and then made light of the gaffe this week. The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe accepted the ...
The president of major Japanese housing equipment-maker Lixil Corp. apologized Wednesday for a tasteless joke in which he claimed to have gained weight due to radiation. "I got bigger because of radiation," Lixil President Kinya Seto said when Environment Minister Koichi Yamamoto asked him about ...
Reading kanji characters can be treacherous, and it seems even Prime Minister Shinzo Abe isn't immune to the pitfalls. Abe has become the butt of online ridicule after misreading a kanji while delivering a speech from a script at an Upper House plenary session earlier ...
Japan's agriculture minister found himself in hot water Wednesday after noting that a state-backed bill to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement may be steamrolled through the ongoing extraordinary session of the Diet. The furor over the comments by Yuji Yamamoto, who took up ...
Gaffe-prone Finance Minister Taro Aso was again caught taking a swipe at the elderly, saying last week that he wondered how much longer a 90-year-old person intends to live. The outspoken Aso, who is also deputy prime minister, made the comment at a Liberal Democratic ...
When is a gaffe not a gaffe? When Donald Trump says it. Over a period of 72 hours earlier in the month, the Republican front-runner faced a campaign crisis after unrest at his events forced him to cancel a rally in Chicago. He responded, not ...
