Naha :: Japan
| updated Fri Nov 27 14:12:42 -0800 2009
| political-news
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Okinawa Gov Hirokazu Nakaima will hold talks Monday in Tokyo over the relocation of a U.S. military airfield in Okinawa Prefecture, which has become a major sticking point in U.S.-Japan ties, prefectural officials said Friday....
Tōkyō :: Japan
| updated Fri Nov 27 13:00:27 -0800 2009
| political-news
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday discussed U.S. President Barack Obama’s new war strategy in Afghanistan to be announced soon, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said. Their talks, which the United States offered to hold in order to explain...
Tōkyō :: Japan
| updated Thu Nov 26 14:21:04 -0800 2009
| political-news
Norinchukin Bank said Thursday its parent-only net profit in the first six months of fiscal 2009 marked a 5.9-fold year-on-year jump to 61.8 billion yen due to securities trading gains and falls in overall evaluation losses on its securities holdings....
Tōkyō :: Japan
| updated Fri Nov 27 18:28:22 -0800 2009
| political-news
Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie kicked off a five-day Japanese visit Friday by meeting with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama . Liang hopes to build defense cooperation between the two countries during discussions with Japanese officials, Xinhua, the official Chinese government...
Tōkyō :: Japan
| updated Fri Nov 27 12:17:22 -0800 2009
| political-news
The husband of pop idol-turned actress Noriko Sakai was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for four years, Friday for possessing and using illegal stimulant drugs. Yuichi Takaso, 41, a self-styled professional surfer, admitted to the charges during the...
Fukushima :: Japan
| updated Fri Nov 27 10:42:01 -0800 2009
| political-news
Sixty years after a fatal train derailment in Fukushima Prefecture known as the Matsukawa case in which 20 people were found guilty before being eventually acquitted, efforts to preserve the lessons of the biggest case of false accusations in postwar...
Tōkyō :: Japan
| updated Thu Nov 26 14:21:20 -0800 2009
| political-news
Representatives from Japanese municipalities holding a large number of foreign residents called for the central government Thursday to set up a new agency aimed at improving the livelihoods of foreign people living in the country. The proposal by...
Ōsaka :: Japan
| updated Thu Nov 26 17:18:27 -0800 2009
| political-news
A 42-year-old man was arrested for theft on Friday morning, after his fingerprints matched those found in a car in a Hannan City parking lot, behind which the decomposed bodies of a man and woman were found on Wednesday. Katsuaki...
Tōkyō :: Japan
| updated Thu Nov 26 07:34:26 -0800 2009
| political-news
November 26, 2009 Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, it seems, can do no wrong. For weeks, he has been waffling over the issue of where to relocate the US Futenma air base, insisting he needs time to ponder the deal...
Hatoyama :: Japan
| updated Wed Nov 25 17:09:42 -0800 2009
| political-news
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama 's mother may have surreptitiously given him millions of yen for his political campaigns, sources say. Investigators are having difficulty untangling Hatoyama's contributions from his mother's, The Asahi Shimbun reported.
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