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1 Jun 2010, 7:41 pm
The prime minister of Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, has reportedly told senior officials of the ruling Democratic Party that he plans to resign. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 12:18 pm
Summary: WSJ Japan Bureau Chief Jacob Schlesinger profiles Yoshihiko Noda, elected Japan's prime minister over the weekend. [read post]
23 Nov 2014, 10:26 am
[JURIST] Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official profile] has dissolved the lower house of parliament [official website], enabling an early election to see how the public views his struggling economic policies. [read post]
1 Mar 2024, 10:22 am
Kishida came to power as Prime Minister of Japan in October 2021. [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 3:39 am
[JURIST] Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda [official website; BBC profile] Wednesday apologized to the thousands of Japanese women and children abandoned during Japan's retreat from China [Kyoto Journal backgrounder] at the close of World War II, marking the first time that a Japanese leader has apologized for the country's failure to support the "war orphans" [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
22 Apr 2014, 6:29 pm
Yesterday's suit seeks an injunction against future visits by the prime minister plus a minimal amount in damages. [read post]
26 Dec 2013, 4:22 am
Today Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe angered China and South Korea by visiting the Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto shrine to the war dead including Japanese leaders who were convicted as war criminals at the end of World War II. [read post]
21 Feb 2012, 10:46 pm
Business Mongolia reports on plans for Prime Minister Batbold to visit Japan from March 10 to 15, including a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Noda. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 7:03 am
Prime Minister Donald Tusk decided to suspend the ratification process of ACTA. [read post]
12 Sep 2008, 12:28 pm
Japan's new justice minister has taken time out of the country's current political turmoil to sign death warrants for three men who were hanged yesterday [11 September].Okiharu Yasuoka approved the execution of three men, all aged in their 60s, just weeks after he was reappointed minister in August.Yasuoka denied the executions were linked to the expected resignation later this month of the cabinet of prime minister Yasuo Fukuda. [read post]
2 Jul 2011, 7:59 am
Mongolian Prime Minister Batbold has received a visit from Deputy Foreign Minister of Japan Koro Bessho. [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 5:00 am
Japan is facing a crisis, and we can't overcome it with a prime minister like this. [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 3:10 pm
From The Japan Times, 18 September 2009Chiba urges death penalty debateKyodo NewsNew Justice Minister Keiko Chiba said Thursday she will deal carefully with death penalty cases and called for a wide-ranging debate on whether capital punishment should be abolished. [read post]
18 Jul 2016, 8:58 am
Well, dozens of LDP legislators and ministers — including Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe — are members of a radical nationalist organization called Nippon Kaigi, which believes (according to one of its members, Hakubun Shimomura, who until recently was Japan’s education minister) that Japan should abandon a “masochistic view of history” wherein it accepts that it committed crimes during the Second… [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 9:45 pm
Japan Times says that Prime Minister Kan has apologized for confusion caused by his erratic policy on stress tests. [read post]
26 Jan 2012, 8:50 pm
Prime Minister Noda sees this as a chance to give a large boost to renewable energy and battery technology. [read post]
7 Feb 2007, 11:08 pm
[JURIST] No formal peace treaty will be concluded between Japan and Russia until Russia relinquishes control of several Japanese islands it has occupied since the end of World War II, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official website] told a rally on Wednesday. [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 4:25 pm
Japan Times reports that there is some controversy about the timing for Prime Minister Kan’s resignation. [read post]
16 Nov 2014, 9:09 pm
TOKYO—Japan’s economy shrank for a second quarter in a row, after a sales-tax increase took the steam out of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ’s bid to turn Japan into a global model of revival. [read post]
20 May 2017, 6:18 pm
The cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official site] approved a special bill [Japan Times report] on Friday allowing the reigning Emperor Akihito [BBC profile] to abdicate his throne. [read post]
