Search for: "Prime Minister of Japan" Results 141 - 160 of 980
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
3 May 2007, 4:13 am
[JURIST] Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official website; BBC profile] repeated his call for reforming the Japanese constitution [text] on Thursday, the day of the constitution's 60th anniversary. [read post]
17 Dec 2004, 3:14 pm
[JURIST] Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said in talks Friday with South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun that economic sanctions were a possibility against North Korea in the wake of growing Japanese public hostility towards Pyongyang for kidnapping of Japanese citizens in previous decades for use in training programs for its intelligence operatives. [read post]
19 Oct 2018, 11:23 am by Patrick A. Malone
In Britain, the New York Times reported that Prime Minister Theresa May appointed health minister Jackie Doyle-Price to lead “government efforts to cut the number of suicides and overcome the stigma that prevents people with mental health problems from seeking help. [read post]
7 May 2015, 12:18 pm by Elizabeth Vella Moeller
  The Prime Minister also made his mark as the first Japanese prime minister to address a joint meeting of Congress. [read post]
27 Mar 2018, 10:00 pm
At least with respect to Luxembourg, the legal framework implemented in the tiny European country is credited with attracting dozens of space companies, with as many as seventy other space companies looking to establish a presence in Luxembourg, according to Deputy Prime Minister Etienne Schneider. [read post]
22 Apr 2011, 4:44 am by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
A journalist from Singapore asked if Prime Minister Kan should appeal himself to foreign countries that Japan is safe. [read post]
17 May 2023, 5:16 am by Mireya Solis
In sharp contrast, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has insisted that “Ukraine today may be East Asia tomorrow. [read post]
1 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Last week Shinzo Abe, who served as Prime Minister of Japan longer than any of his predecessors, resigned due to health concerns. [read post]
5 Jul 2007, 8:07 am
[JURIST] Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] told Japan's Kyodo News [media website] Thursday that he will not return to Thailand to face charges of corruption [JURIST report] unless he can be sure that his trial would be fair. [read post]
4 Apr 2004, 7:30 pm
The case involves a District Court's temporary injunction against the publication of a magazine article about a former Prime Minister's daughter. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 6:32 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Japan Times says that the Japanese government will give Chubu Electric a loan of 100 billion yen, to help them deal with the cost of the shutdown of the perfectly safe Hamaoka nuclear plant Prime Minister Kan required without any basis in law. [read post]
5 Sep 2014, 5:09 am by John Kang
From the NYT: TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan unveiled a reshuffled cabinet on Wednesday that included five women, an apparent nod toward his promises to raise the status of women in the workplace. [read post]
6 Oct 2006, 3:09 am
[JURIST] New Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official profile, BBC profile] declared before parliament Friday that Japanese leaders during World War II were not war criminals. [read post]
30 Aug 2021, 12:01 pm by Tom Smith
The fact that the Kudo-kai had made an enemy of a key member of the establishment – Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, who remains a major player in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party – likely did not improve Nomura’s chances in court. [read post]
19 Mar 2008, 10:00 am
  This suggests that the action is less about humiliating the prime minister and more about humiliating the Ministry of Finance. [read post]
11 May 2011, 4:24 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Throw in the Hamaoka plants shut down by Prime Minister Kan’s irrational fear and we have 42 out of 54 Japanese plants not operating for one reason or another come summer. [read post]
16 Jun 2011, 4:05 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
The “Institute for International Policy Studies” is  a think tank in Tokyo chaired by former Prime Minister Nakasone, who was strongly involved in the decision to build nuclear power plants in Japan. [read post]