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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]
7 May 2015, 12:18 pm by Elizabeth Vella Moeller
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit last week to the United State was a huge success. [read post]
The scandal involved individuals from three factions within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)—factions led respectively by the late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and former LDP Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai. [read post]
20 Jul 2020, 7:04 am
It is here that the incarnation of a trade and security policy for the old TPP group may be converging with, and draw inspiration from an unexpected source--the leadership of Shinzo Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan. [read post]
26 Sep 2018, 2:17 pm by Simon Lester
Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, affirmed the importance of a strong, stable, and mutually beneficial trade and economic relationship between the United States and Japan, recognizing that our economies together represent approximately 30 percent of global Gross Domestic Product. [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]
11 Oct 2017, 7:35 pm by Allan Blutstein
Judge surprised at feds' slim disclosure on Mar-a-Lago visitorsBy Josh Gerstein, Politico, Oct. 11, 2017A federal judge indicated Wednesday that she was taken aback by how little information the government turned over in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records about President Donald Trump’s visitors at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, but she turned aside a request to rule that the authorities appeared to have violated a court order.Pro-transparency groups cried foul… [read post]
8 Jul 2022, 8:05 am by Gene Takagi
Notable Events of the Week: “Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, a towering political figure at home and abroad, died after being shot at a campaign event Friday, doctors said, shocking a nation where firearms laws are among the world’s strictest and gun violence is rare. [read post]
22 Apr 2015, 5:10 pm by Benjamin Wittes
The prime minister, Shinzo Abe, who is at present in Indonesia, works at the building during the day and commutes from his own private home roughly 15 minutes away. [read post]
27 Aug 2013, 4:29 am by Jon Gelman
They come two weeks after the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, promised that his government would take a more active role in the site’s cleanup, raising questions over how seriously he has taken that pledge. [read post]
11 Jul 2022, 1:05 pm by Jeff Welty
Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan, was shot and killed last week. [read post]
28 Dec 2018, 10:36 am
All executions are done by hanging.Japan's Code of Criminal Procedure states the death penalty should be implemented within six months of the issuing of the sentence, but in fact that is almost never the case.The controversial system made international headlines in July when 13 members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, which carried out the deadly 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, were executed.A total of 36 prisoners have now been executed since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe… [read post]
11 Feb 2018, 6:03 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
**The cover story on February 11 was The growing acceptance of autism in the workplace **Separately, over at NBC:The network responded on Saturday by having anchor Carolyn Manno read a statement:“During our coverage of the Parade of Nations on Friday we said it was notable that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made the trip to Korea for the Olympics, “representing Japan, a country which occupied Korea from 1910 to 1945 but every Korean will tell you that Japan is a… [read post]
24 Nov 2013, 6:00 am by Howard Friedman
This is part of a broader political movement:Many of the nation’s top elected officials, including [Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Education Minister Shimomura] ... are members of ... [read post]
30 Nov 2016, 4:29 am
As Bloomberg forefronts in "Why Half a Million Young Japanese Can't Face School or Work" — before admitting in the 4th paragraph that the issue — the "hikikomori" — is not new.The current issue is that the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, sees this matter of life-style choice and psychological orientation as problem in need of government intervention because the population is dropping. [read post]
13 May 2014, 4:45 pm
Shinzo Abe, the new Japanese prime minister, is the grandson of a wartime cabinet minister and rejects the ‘apology diplomacy,’ through which Japan tried to atone for the war. . . . [read post]
1 Sep 2013, 5:41 am by Jon Gelman
That leak prompted Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to announce that the government would step in at the plant, which was crippled two years ago by a huge earthquake and tsunami, to help get it under control amid rising public fears of a second environmental disaster. [read post]
26 Apr 2019, 11:06 am by Stephanie Zable
President Trump will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday to discuss a U.S. [read post]