We have to wonder what the Shinzo Abe administration has in mind when it comes to Japan's strained relations with its neighbours. Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso and two cabinet members visited war...
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Japanese politicians have a simple enough calculation when deciding whether to honour the country's war dead at the Yasukuni Shrine. To go is an act of nationalism that will win points with right-...
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Yasuko Hatoyama, the daughter of the founder of tyremaker Bridgestone, married into the Hatoyamas, a powerful political family sometimes dubbed "Japan's Kennedys".
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Shinzo Abe was elected Japan’s prime minister on Wednesday after he swept to power on a hawkish platform of getting tough on diplomacy while fixing the economy.
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He may have been elected with a record vote and may be only days into his new job, but the knives already appear to be out for Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose.
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So the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), led by Yoshihiko Noda, was defeated by a landslide only three years after it had won by a landslide over the Liberal Democratic Party.
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Japan's presumptive premier Shinzo Abe got his US leaders mixed up yesterday, when he told business chiefs he had been speaking to "President Bush" after a phone call from Barack Obama.
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Six years ago, academic Yukiko Kada was elected governor of Shiga prefecture on a platform of environmental protection.
Now, as Japan struggles with the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear...
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In the dying days of his first spell as prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe was clearly in a lot of discomfort. Officially, a chronic stomach ailment was cited as the main reason for his...
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It is difficult not to feel a degree of sympathy for Yoshihiko Noda, who will be unceremoniously removed as Japan's prime minister in Sunday's general election, if the opinion polls are to be...
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Minivans plastered with slogans and the smiling faces of candidates are cruising the streets of towns and cities across Japan while the leaders of the largest parties are appealing to the...
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Japan's post-war democracy has often been termed phoney, a charge arising from the long-maintained single-party rule by the Liberal Democratic Party.
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