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JAPAN / Politics
Mar 15, 2015
Japan-China parliamentary panel set to resume meetings in April
Japan and China are making preparations to hold a meeting of their parliamentary exchange commission in Tokyo in April for the first time in about three years, diplomatic sources said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 8, 2015
Abe calls for swift security legislation at LDP convention
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called Sunday for swift enactment of legislation to enable Japan to defend its security more robustly as his Liberal Democratic Party held its annual convention.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 8, 2015
Record 30% of Japanese want SDF beefed up: Cabinet survey
A record 29.9 percent of Japanese say they want the Self-Defense Forces' capabilities boosted, a government survey said.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2015
Abe administration considering creating MI6-style spy agency
The Abe administration considers setting up an intelligence agency similar to Britain's MI6 as it moves to give the military a bigger role overseas.
EDITORIALS
Mar 5, 2015
Political funding law needs review
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has joined several other members of his Cabinet plus the opposition leader in admitting receipt of donations from businesses that have been granted government subsidies.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 26, 2015
Ruling bloc may seek Diet nod for any overseas SDF dispatch as precondition to permanent law
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the government will consider requiring advance Diet approval for the dispatch of Self-Defense Forces overseas as a condition for seeking a permanent law on their missions, NHK reported Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 25, 2015
LDP vice president urges Abe to uphold past WWII apologies
The vice president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday to uphold past government apologies and expressions of remorse for Japan's wartime aggression in Asia as Abe prepares to issue a statement on the 70th anniversary of World War II's end.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 23, 2015
Will Japan become Asia's next autocracy?
The LDP's draft constitution contains elements that would move Japan toward illiberalism and autocracy if it was adopted.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Feb 22, 2015
Okinawa reversion was moved forward to pave way for Sato's successor
The timing of the reversion of Okinawa to Japan from U.S. control in 1972 was negotiated by Tokyo and Washington to encourage a smooth transition of power from then-Prime Minister Eisaku Sato to his intended successor, previously classified U.S. documents show.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 20, 2015
LDP, Komeito split on SDF's overseas role
The Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito remained far apart Friday over how far to expand the Self-Defense Forces' overseas activities in line with the Abe administration's controversial reinterpretation of the pacifist Constitution last summer.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 18, 2015
Abe's JA reforms no salve for core problems, experts say
Takashi Tomita, who heads an agricultural cooperative in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, is considered a ray of hope for a farming sector on the brink of collapse.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 27, 2015
DPJ questions Abe's timing of Mideast aid
The opposition camp presses Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over his decision to announce millions of dollars in nonmilitary aid to countries battling the Islamic State group at a time when Japanese citizens were known to be among its captives.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 21, 2015
Komura says Tokyo will not meet Islamic State's demands
Masahiko Komura, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's vice president, said Wednesday that Japan will not comply with the Islamic State's ransom demand, after the militant group threatened to kill two Japanese it is holding hostage.
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jan 21, 2015
Abe targets Finance Ministry
Angered by its resistance to some of his policy measures, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears bent on curbing the power of the Finance Ministry.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 12, 2015
LDP to seek multiparty project team to draft revised Constitution
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is considering launching a project team with opposition parties that are open to writing a revised Constitution in order to work out a draft, a party executive said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 12, 2015
Abe pick loses governor race in farm-heavy Saga
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's candidate loses the Saga gubernatorial election to a rival backed by the agriculture sector in a blow to his plans to shake up the farm industry.
Japan Times
JAPAN / 70 YEARS OF PEACE AND PROSPERITY
Jan 2, 2015
As Abe pulls to the right, few go with him
How far has Japan shifted to the right? Is it trying to shed its legacy of postwar pacifism? Experts give their opinions on the LDP's latest moves as the new year opens.
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 30, 2014
Ruling bloc OKs tax reform plan favoring wealthy Japanese
With an eye on propping up sluggish household spending and boosting business investment, the ruling coalition adopts tax reform policies entailing corporate tax cuts and expansion of tax breaks for the wealthy.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 28, 2014
Japanese government, LDP to draw up permanent law on dispatch of Self-Defense Forces overseas
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party plans to draw up a permanent law governing the dispatch of Self-Defense Forces personnel overseas.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 27, 2014
Ruling parties begin talks on security laws that could pave way for collective defense
The deputy chiefs of the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito launch discussions on security-related bills, including on Japan exercising the right to collective self-defense.
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.
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.
One dead, three missing as heavy rain batters Tohoku
Camera footage shows the Mogami River bursting its banks in Tozawa, Yamagata Prefecture, on Friday morning.
Brazil issues apology for persecuting Japan immigrants during WWII
Enea Almeida (right), chair of the Brazilian amnesty commission, shakes hands with the representative for Japanese immigrants on Thursday in Brasilia.
When did summer in Japan stop being fun?
Summer in Japan is now consistently brutal enough to drive you indoors and keep you there until autumn.
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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