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SHINZO ABE

COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 17, 2013
Japan's China imperative: overcoming problems, repairing relations
There is speculation that quiet diplomacy may lead to a summit between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and China's President Xi Jinping. Certainly there are good reasons to expect no meeting of minds on some crucial issues that divide the two nations, but these need not prevent their leaders sitting down together...
EDITORIALS
Aug 16, 2013
Mr. Abe's mistaken war speech
Shinzo Abe's revisionist views toward Japanese history, implied by what he didn't say in his Aug. 15 speech, is likely to deepen international suspicions about Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 15, 2013
By omitting words, Abe speaks volumes
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed no remorse for Japan's past military aggression in Asia and failed to pledge to never again wage war Thursday when the nation marked the 68th anniversary of its surrender in World War II, underscoring his revisionist views on history and push to amend the pacifist...
EDITORIALS
Aug 14, 2013
Future of military self-restraint
This year's anniversary marking the end of World War II comes as the Abe administration appears girding to discard the postwar principle of military self-restraint.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 12, 2013
Hashimoto advocate Sakaiya to advise Abe
Taichi Sakaiya, 78, the man credited with persuading Osaka Mayor and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) co-leader Toru Hashimoto to trade the world of television punditry for the world of politics, has been appointed as an adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 12, 2013
Tax hike backers seize on positive GDP data
Real gross domestic product rose an annualized 2.6 percent in the three months to June, bolstering the Abe administration's claim its economic policies are succeeding.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 8, 2013
Politicians unwilling to revisit tax hike law: adviser
Lawmakers are reluctant to reopen legislation on the sales tax rise, raising the bar for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should he seek a shallower path of increases, according to one of his advisers.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 7, 2013
'The 15th Entertainment Art Exhibition'
The first "Entertainment Art Exhibition" began as a charity project in 1999, and it has held exhibitions in museums and cultural centers around Japan ever since. For its 15th year, the exhibition aims to help support areas recovering from the Great East Japan Earthquake by displaying works based on "Human...
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Aug 5, 2013
For the sake of Japan's future, stop glorifying past crimes at Yasukuni
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, it hurts the victims of the Imperial Japanese military's war of terror that ministers of your government and members of parliament continue to visit Yasukuni Shrine.

Longform

Sociologist Gracia Liu-Farrer argues that even though immigration doesn't figure into Japan's autobiography, it is more of a self-perception than a reality.
In search of the ‘Japanese dream’