With a clear mandate, the ruling coalition of the LDP and Komeito must act on reforming Japan’s postwar Constitution and address urgent issues affecting the people.
With just two more days to go, the election campaign was under even more scrutiny than usual due to the shooting of Shinzo Abe on July...
The LDP and Komeito water down, then shelve, the Diet resolution condemning China’s serious human rights violations. Shameful.
If Kishida is chosen prime minister again after the October 31 elections, he should immediately take away the Minister of Infrastructure, Land, and Transportation post from...
One Japanese official warned that, given the removal of the range cap, from now on South Korea can have missiles with a range sufficient to cover...
The advertising effect of the Koizumi family was so potent that financial institutions flocked to lend significant sums to projects that had no substance.
Straight out of a health-related break, the Tokyo governor, with a 64% approval rating, did the rounds on the very last day of campaigning.
They failed to adopt a resolution condemning China’s human rights violations. Two parties tried to stop a law that would restrict foreigners’ acquisition of land near...
This small city of Ishigaki, with just under 50,000 people, has been on the forefront of China’s daily threats and nearly had to lead Japan’s foreign...
While the National Diet ended its ordinary session on June 17, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) and other opposition parties had requested to...
On June 4 the world marked the 31st anniversary of the infamous Tiananmen Massacre in which the Chinese government employed lethal military force to crack...
Last of Two Parts (Read Part One here.) Epidemics not Mentioned After the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was defeated badly in the 2009...
