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DIET 3

JAPAN / Politics
Feb 15, 2013
LDP gets behind the Hague Convention
Now that a majority of the Diet appears to support joining the international treaty on settling cross-border child custody disputes, the government expressed determination Thursday to push for quick ratification of the 1980 Hague Convention.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 9, 2013
DPJ snubs ruling bloc's list of picks for key posts
The Democratic Party of Japan refuses to accept a list of 41 nominees for key government positions because the name of one person was leaked to the media.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 8, 2013
DPJ signals that it's willing to play hardball on key government nominations
A Democratic Party of Japan executive surprised the administration Thursday when he said his party, the largest opposition force, will reject the government's planned nominee to lead the Fair Trade Commission because his name was leaked in a media report.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 8, 2013
China provocation slammed
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera warns China that it may have violated the United Nations Charter when its warships locked their fire-control radars on a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer and helicopter last month and calls for setting up a hotline between Tokyo and Beijing.
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2013
Antipiracy bill drafted to let private armed guards defend ships
An antipiracy bill is being prepared to let foreign security contractors on Japanese flag-bearing vessels carry firearms while sailing off Somalia and other pirate-infested waters.
EDITORIALS
Feb 4, 2013
The DPJ's obligation
Members of the No. 1 opposition party, DPJ, have a duty to check the moves of the Abe administration with regard to economic and and defense policies.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 1, 2013
Mummies yield ancient clues to origins of disease
As a pathologist, Michael Zimmerman was familiar with dead bodies, but when he was asked to autopsy a mummy for the first time he wasn't sure what to expect. There were a dozen layers of wrapping that he peeled off one at a time "like Chinese boxes," he said. When he finished, he found the body was dark...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 31, 2013
Kaieda lashes LDP on works spending
Democratic Party of Japan leader Banri Kaieda lashed out Wednesday at the massive ¥4.7 trillion public works spending package compiled by the Liberal Democratic Party.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 29, 2013
Policy speech by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the 183rd session of the Diet
Delivered Jan. 28, 2013
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 29, 2013
Few chinks in Abe's armor as Diet reconvenes
The 150-day ordinary Diet session that kicked off Monday will be an opportunity for the opposition camp to confront the new Liberal Democratic Party administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Age in the runup to the July Upper House election.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 28, 2013
Abe opens Diet, skips hawkish rhetoric
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe kicks off the 150-day Diet session with a speech focused on the economy rather than his usual right-leaning political rhetoric.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Mar 23, 2012
Lawmaker has no regrets about giving birth at 50
Seiko Noda, a 51-year-old Lower House lawmaker, drew wide public attention and controversy by bearing a child at age 50 through artificial insemination.
JAPAN
Jan 7, 2011
Lawmaker Seiko Noda gives birth to boy
GIFU (Kyodo) Seiko Noda, a 50-year-old House of Representatives member, gave birth to a boy at a Tokyo hospital Thursday morning, her Gifu-based office said, marking a successful end to years of fertility treatment.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Oct 21, 2010
Enzyme cocktails for better health?
The enzyme diet is the latest in a long parade of get-slim-fast regimes.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2010
LDP's Seiko Noda, 49, pregnant via fertility treatment
Seiko Noda, a Liberal Democratic Party member of the Lower House, has become pregnant through artificial insemination using an egg from someone in the United States after years of fertility treatment, sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2008
Ex-postal rebel Seiko Noda gets nod as LDP's candidate in Gifu
Lower House member Seiko Noda, one of the "postal rebels" who returned to the Liberal Democratic Party after winning in the 2005 general election as independents, will run for Gifu's No. 1 district in the next election, senior LDP executive Makoto Koga said Saturday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2007
Arson and burglary at Seiko Noda's Gifu office
The office of former posts and telecommunications minister Seiko Noda in the city of Gifu was apparently burglarized of several items early Friday and then set afire, police said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / IN WITH THE NEW
Jun 5, 2003
Seiko Noda now a force in her own right — and name
Seiko Noda, a Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker in the House of Representatives, wrote in her elementary school composition class that her dream was to become a politician -- and ultimately prime minister.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
A decline in COVID-19-caused deaths likely helped boost the average life expectancy for Japanese men and women to rise for the first time in three years in 2023.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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