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Tetsushi Kajimoto
JAPAN
Jun 17, 2005
More Diet time eyed for postal reform bills
The ruling coalition sought Thursday to extend the current ordinary Diet session by 55 days through Aug. 13, seeking more time to enact contentious postal privatization bills.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2005
LDP postal rebels turn up the heat
Liberal Democratic Party opponents of postal reform redoubled their efforts to thwart the plans of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Friday, demanding that Japan Post remain a public corporation.
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2005
Koizumi cites 'creed' as defense for remarks on shrine visits
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Thursday brushed aside criticism of his earlier remarks urging other countries not to interfere with his contentious visits to Yasukuni Shrine and said the trips are based on his "creed."
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 27, 2005
By-election losses dent DPJ's pitch to ditch opposition image
Don't call us an opposition party, says Katsuya Okada, leader of the Democratic Party of Japan.
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2005
81 Diet members visit Yasukuni Shrine
A Cabinet minister and at least 80 other Diet members visited Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine on Friday.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2005
Upper panel can't agree on need for new Article 9
A House of Councilors panel on the Constitution endorsed a final report Wednesday that cites the need to revise the supreme law to ensure new human rights concepts and agrees a female should be allowed to ascend the Imperial throne, but fails to declare a consensus on amending the war-renouncing Article...
JAPAN
Apr 19, 2005
Postal issue keeps LDP at loggerheads
The Liberal Democratic Party continued late Monday night trying to put together a set of requests for modifying the government's plan to privatize postal services by 2017 by splitting Japan Post into four units.
JAPAN
Apr 16, 2005
Change Constitution: Lower House report
A Lower House panel submitted a final report Friday to Speaker Yohei Kono, stressing the need to amend the Constitution's war-renouncing Article 9 and to allow a female to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 13, 2005
Fukuoka, Miyagi by-election campaigns start
Campaigning kicked off in Miyagi and Fukuoka prefectures Tuesday for two House of Representatives by-elections expected to be pivotal in deciding the fate of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization drive.
JAPAN
Apr 5, 2005
LDP's new Constitution will widen SDF's role
The Liberal Democratic Party on Monday unveiled a rough outline of its planned constitutional amendment, which says the Self-Defense Forces should be defined as a military tasked with defending Japan and joining international peacekeeping efforts.
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2005
Ruling bloc, DPJ to mull Diet pension action
The ruling bloc and the Democratic Party of Japan agreed Friday to meet informally to discuss how the Diet will address pension reform and other social security programs.
BUSINESS
Feb 4, 2005
U.S. insurance lobbyist calls for 'kampo' fair play
The visiting president of an American life insurer group urged the Japanese government Thursday to ensure a "level playing field" when it proceeds with the privatization of its huge postal life insurance service, scheduled to begin in 2007.
JAPAN
Jan 28, 2005
Hashimoto should be charged, inquest says
committee called (the prosecution's decision) unjust," DPJ Secretary General Tatsuo Kawabata said as he challenged Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi during a Diet session Thursday. He asked Koizumi, who heads the LDP, if he still believes Hashimoto's explanation that he probably received the JDA donation...
JAPAN
Jan 27, 2005
Koizumi vows rural postal services will be maintained
postal delivery services, the (privatized) entity (in charge) will be legally obliged to continue to provide them," Koizumi said, indicating this entity would receive preferential treatment over actual private-sector firms seeking to enter the mail delivery fray. Under the government's privatization...
JAPAN
Jan 26, 2005
Koizumi plans blocwide postal powwow
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Tuesday he intends to talk out his contentious postal privatization plan with the ruling bloc so related bills can be approved by the Diet within the current 150-day session.
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2005
Koizumi's evasiveness disrupts Lower House
The Diet got off to a stormy start Monday when opposition lawmakers walked out of a House of Representatives plenary session to protest Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's unsatisfactory answers to their questions.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 22, 2005
Koizumi set to resume battle for postal reform
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will go all-out in the 150-day Diet session that convened Friday to push his long-cherished, but highly contentious, plan to privatize the nation's postal services.
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2005
Nakasone group unveils Constitutional amendment plan
An independent think tank led by former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone on Thursday unveiled its draft for revising the Constitution.
JAPAN
Jan 19, 2005
Defiant Koizumi tells LDP convention he's going full-bore on postal reform
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Tuesday he is determined to privatize the nation's massive postal services despite strong opposition from the Liberal Democratic Party, which he heads.
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2005
Abe won't testify on NHK censorship
should explain before the Diet, and it is not true," Abe said. "(The opposition) would use (my) summoning as a witness to defer (Diet deliberations on) the budget." The Asahi Shimbun reported Wednesday that Abe and trade minister Shoichi Nakagawa learned of the contents of the NHK program before it was...
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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