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5 Sep 2016, 7:00 am by Kelly Fiveash
Enlarge / Japanese PM Shinzo Abe arrives in China for the G20 summit... just as his country's awkward Brexit memo lands. [read post]
25 Apr 2015, 8:37 am by David Kravets
jose rodriquez A 40-year-old Japanese man admitted he landed an unmanned drone in central Tokyo carrying radioactive sand atop Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office to protest nuclear power, police said Saturday. [read post]
18 Nov 2016, 5:23 am by Chris Mirasola
Abe takes the stage Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets President-Elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower (Photo: Reuters) As Donald Trump’s election prompts many to reconsider the Asia-Pacific’s future, Japanese Prime Minister Abe has emerged as ballast to the US-led East Asian alliance structure. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 11:50 am by Anna Salvatore
Suga served as a chief of staff to departing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for many years, and analysts are almost certain that Suga will become prime minister after a vote in Parliament. [read post]
8 Jul 2022, 3:22 pm by Benjamin Pollard
Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated while giving a speech at a campaign event in Nara, Japan. [read post]
7 Mar 2007, 3:30 am
" The absence of an ICC-like permanent tribunal in the postwar era, she argues, created the "historical vacuum" within which Prime Minister Shinzo Abe now denies the tragedy. [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 10:05 pm
" As we've posted (see here and here), the issue resurfaced last year, during the now-ended government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. [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]
4 Sep 2020, 8:16 am by Patrick A. Malone
The Japanese, in the meantime, dealt with sadness and uncertainty as Shinzo Abe, their nation’s longest serving prime minister, announced he would step down from office due to a relapse of ulcerative colitis, the bowel disease that led him to resign after just a year during his first stint in office, the New York Times reported. [read post]
22 Nov 2016, 7:00 am by Michael Geist
For most TPP countries, access to the U.S. market was the primary reason for entering into the agreement and as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said over the weekend, “the TPP would be meaningless without the United States. [read post]
20 Jan 2017, 5:30 am by Chris Mirasola
Abe's South China Sea Charm Offensive Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits President Rodrigo Duterte's bedroom (Photo: Rappler) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe followed last week’s trip to Manila with a busy schedule of state visits to Canberra, Jakarta, and Hanoi reaffirming Japan’s role in regional politics. [read post]
9 Jun 2020, 9:05 pm by Eric A. Feldman
Trump’s fixation on hydroxychloroquine, Shinzo Abe has promoted his own miracle drug, Avigan, dev [read post]
11 Jul 2022, 1:39 pm by Benjamin Pollard
Japan’s ruling party won a significant victory at the polls following the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. [read post]
9 Jul 2022, 6:01 am by Benjamin Pollard
Alvaro Marañon shared an episode of the Lawfare Podcast in which he sat down with Aaron Friedberg to discuss Friedberg’s new book, “Getting China Wrong,” the origins of the West’s engagement with China, and how the U.S. and Biden administration can start getting China “right”: Jordan Schneider shared an episode of ChinaTalk in which he sat down with Tobias Harris to discuss Shinzo Abe’s legacy in Japan: Paul Rosenzweig imagined how… [read post]
18 Dec 2015, 8:11 pm
Source: The Guardian (18 December 2015)http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/18/japan-executes-first-man-convicted-by-citizen-judgesJapan on Friday carried out the first execution of a man who had been convicted by lay judges, as part of a pair of hangings that were condemned by human rights groups.The two executions bring to 14 the total number of death sentences carried out since Shinzo Abe became prime minister three years ago.Japanese media quoted a justice ministry… [read post]
22 Sep 2016, 1:29 am
Source: South China Morning Post (21 September 2016)http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2021350/calls-abolish-death-penalty-grow-louder-japanJapan’s use of the death penalty is expected to come under unprecedented domestic pressure when, for the first time, the country’s legal community calls for its abolition next month.The Japan Federation of Bar Associations, whose membership includes 37,000 lawyers and hundreds of other legal professionals, said it would declare its… [read post]
22 Oct 2018, 11:06 am by Anushka Limaye
For the first time in seven years, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping for a bilateral meeting amid growing U.S. [read post]
1 Aug 2021, 1:30 pm by Ajay Sarma, Christiana Wayne
Wayne announced this week’s Lawfare Live, during which Reynolds and Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein joined Scott Anderson to discuss the House select committee’s first hearing regarding the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol and civil litigation relating to the attack: powered by Crowdcast Howell shared a comic final episodelet of Rational Security in which Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes considers the future of the podcast's feed and discusses the House select… [read post]
26 Oct 2018, 10:09 am by Anushka Limaye
In the first official visit of a Japanese leader to Beijing since 2011, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced an end to the foreign aid that Tokyo provides to China in acknowledgement of China’s economic dominance, reports the Times. [read post]
2 Aug 2015, 2:56 pm by Old Fox
link"Today, Friday 31 July 2015, 9am CEST, WikiLeaks publishes "Target Tokyo", 35 Top Secret NSA targets in Japan including the Japanese cabinet and Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi, together with intercepts relating to US-Japan relations, trade negotiations and sensitive climate change strategy.The list indicates that NSA spying on Japanese conglomerates, government officials, ministries and senior advisers extends back at least as far as the first administration of Prime… [read post]