The restoration of former Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida's residence in the town of Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, has been completed, allowing it to be used as an annex to the new Oiso Municipal Museum scheduled to open on Saturday. A ceremony Sunday to celebrate its completion ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who will visit Pearl Harbor with U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday, wasn't even born when then-Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida went there just six years after Japan's surrender, by himself and feeling awkward. Yoshida is best remembered for signing the San ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe matches the record of 1,806 days in office set by former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone in the 1980s, the fourth-longest term held by a prime minister in the postwar era.
Rather than leave the interpretation of Article 9 to each administration, perhaps it should be revised so government policies could be placed under the potential constraints of judicial review.
Ever since 1897 The Japan Times has reported daily in English on people, places and goings-on in and beyond this country. During those 116 years, our articles have often included information that never made it into the Japanese-language press — as in 1934, when ...
