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12 Sep 2007, 2:05 am
[JURIST] Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official website, in Japanese; JURIST news archive] announced his resignation [BBC English translation] on Wednesday, citing problems renewing a Japanese anti-terrorism law. [read post]
26 Apr 2005, 9:36 am
[JURIST] A Japanese court Tuesday refused to grant a petition by a group of Japanese and South Korean citizens seeking to stop Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi [official website, English version] and Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara from visiting a Shinto shrine honoring Japan's war dead, including convicted World War II war criminals. [read post]
26 Mar 2007, 10:38 am
[JURIST] Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official website, in Japanese; BBC profile] expressed his sympathy and apologized Monday for the "situation" faced by so-called Korean and Chinese "comfort women" [Amnesty backgrounder] who were forced into sexual slavery during World War II. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 3:06 pm
Japan's new prime minister is an IP lawyer, the first to lead the country since World War II. [read post]
1 Jun 2008, 7:29 pm
The Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters, led by the Prime Minister, has announced plans to introduce a fair use provision based on the U.S. model early next year. [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 7:13 am
This article in the Wall Street Journal gives some information about the visit of Mongolian Prime Minister Batbold to Japan. [read post]
24 Sep 2011, 7:33 pm
Prime Minister Noda addressed the United Nations General Assembly on September 23. [read post]
26 May 2011, 7:31 pm
At the 50 year OECD ceremony, published at the Prime Minister website: The situation is steadily stabilising. [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 3:29 pm
Prime Minister Kan has a blog here (English translation) , and he has started writing again this Wednesday after being occupied with other urgent business for one month. [read post]
23 Sep 2007, 8:17 pm
FUKUDA wins the race to be Japan's Prime Minister. [read post]
8 Jul 2022, 7:09 pm
Our hearts are with the people of Japan — and Prime Minister Kishida— in this moment of grief. [read post]
10 Jun 2017, 1:00 pm
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official website] noted the importance of... [read post]
5 Mar 2007, 2:47 am
[JURIST] Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [BBC profile; official website, in Japanese] said Monday that the US House of Representatives' proposed resolution [text; H Res 121 summary], which urges Japan to apologize to women who were forced into sexual slavery [JURIST report] during World War II, "is not based on objective facts. [read post]
4 Nov 2011, 4:07 am
The Japanese Foreign Ministry reports that from 9 o’clock in the morning today Japanese Prime Minister Noda talked to German Chancellor Merkel for about 10 minutes at the occasion of the Cannes G20 summit. [read post]
28 Apr 2015, 11:36 pm
Ten people were hanged in less than a year during Shinzo Abe’s previous time as Prime Minister between September 2006 and September 2007. [read post]
23 Dec 2021, 11:25 pm
Source: Reuters (21 December 2021)https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-executes-three-death-row-inmates-first-under-pm-kishida-kyodo-2021-12-21/TOKYO, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Japan executed three convicts on Tuesday, marking the first time the death penalty was carried out under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government and the first execution in the country in nearly two years, the Kyodo news agency reported.One of those put to death was a 65-year-old… [read post]
25 May 2011, 4:26 pm
A new article at Japan Times cites Prime Minister Kan like this: The Fukushima nuclear crisis has made it difficult to build new atomic plants in Japan, Prime Minister Naoto Kan suggested in an interview with the Financial Times, citing the experience of the United States after the 1979 Three Mile Island accident. [read post]
7 May 2011, 7:59 pm
The request for shutting down the Hamaoka nuclear power plants by Prime Minister Kan lacks any legal basis (Japan Times). [read post]
22 Jul 2005, 3:13 pm
[JURIST] The Japanese parliament passed a measure Friday giving Japanese Minister of State for Defense Yoshinori Ohno [official profile] the legal power to shoot down incoming missiles without consulting the prime minister or cabinet. [read post]
18 Jun 2008, 12:34 pm
"She said she wrote to Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama in late May asking him not to order the execution of Miyazaki.Political supportIndia's Economic Times reported that Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said after the executions he supported the use of the death penalty. [read post]
