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21 Mar 2023, 10:30 am by Vijeta Uniyal
AP News: "Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ... announced action plans for a new Indo-Pacific initiative aimed at countering China’s influence in the region. [read post]
1 Mar 2007, 11:55 am
[JURIST] Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [BBC profile; official website, in Japanese] on Thursday denied that the Japanese military forced Korean and Chinese women into prostitution during World War II, echoing sentiments by Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso [official website] last month that a proposed US resolution urging Japan to apologize for the alleged practice was based on bad [read post]
25 Aug 2012, 8:38 am by Jennie Ryan
[JURIST] Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda [official profile] on Friday signed a resolution [Xinhua.net report] describing South Korea's control of islands in the Sea of Japan as an "illegal occupation. [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 2:04 pm by Dan Taglioli
Several such rallies have occurred since the unilateral decision last month by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda [BBC profile] to restart Japan's nuclear reactors. [read post]
25 Feb 2019, 12:25 pm by Nicholas Chan
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said Sunday the relocation of the US’ Futenma Airbase to Henoko would continue despite a referendum vote opposing the move. [read post]
6 Aug 2014, 2:54 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
 August 1, 2014 “Confronted with decades of economic stagnation, strict immigration controls, and a rapidly aging population, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has launched an ambitious plan—widely known as “Abenomics”—to restart Japan’s economy. [read post]
22 Nov 2005, 12:59 pm
Speaking to a crowd assembled to honor the party's 50th anniversary, Japanese Prime Minister and LDP leader Junichiro Koizumi [ [read post]
29 Sep 2005, 9:42 am
[JURIST] A Tokyo court dismissed a lawsuit against Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi [official website, English version] Thursday that claimed his visits to a Shinto war shrine violated Japan's constitutional separation of religion and state. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 2:42 am
[JURIST] Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official website, in Japanese; JURIST news archive] said Sunday that he would resign if parliament refuses to extend a special anti-terrorism law. [read post]
11 Jan 2008, 12:45 am
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) [official website, in Japanese], led by Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda [official website], used its two-thirds majority in the parliament's lower house to override Friday's earlier rejection of the [read post]
10 Apr 2024, 7:27 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The New York Times [unpaywalled]:  “Japan is giving the United States 250 cherry trees to replace more than 100 that will be torn up during construction around the Tidal Basin in Washington, the Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, said on Wednesday. [read post]
30 Sep 2005, 11:37 am
[JURIST] The Osaka High Court ruled on Friday that visits by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi [official website, English version] to a Shinto shrine for war dead [official website, English] violate Japan's constitutional provisions for separation of church and state. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 10:28 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Mongolian Prime Minister Batbold is visiting Japan this week. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 7:47 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Former Prime Minister Kan had this to say on the last post of his “Prime Minister” blog: I intend to be engaged in the promotion of renewable energies as my life work even after I step down from office. [read post]
19 Mar 2012, 11:21 am by Glenn Reynolds
JAPAN WARNS of Chinese threat. “Tensions are rising between the two largest economies and most powerful military forces in Asia: Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshiko Noda is using some very un-Japanese language (direct, forceful, naming names) to address what he sees as a growing threat.” [read post]
28 Apr 2014, 4:56 am by John Kang
On April 27, this news was reported: Japan’s first lady, Akie Abe, wife of conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, joined the festivities, standing on a float (pictured, below, in white) amid a sea of 3,000 marching participants. [read post]
13 Oct 2006, 2:15 am
[JURIST] A court in Japan [JURIST news archive] has dismissed an appeal by 81 plaintiffs who argued that the visits of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi [official profile] to a war shrine honoring Japanese dead as well as war criminals from World War II violated the constitutional separation of state and religion. [read post]
29 Sep 2006, 3:02 pm
[JURIST] In his first major speech to parliament since taking office last week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official profile; BBC profile] followed through on a promise [IHT report] to make amending the country's pacifist constitution a priority. [read post]