News Source: Japan Times
| about 1 month ago
Although he appeared unfriendly to some, he was in fact a serious, responsible man with delicate sensibilities who studied policies day and night. That is the picture emerging of the late former Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa from interviews with
News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 month ago
Former Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, who resigned from his post earlier this year after an incoherent public appearance and later lost his seat in parliament, was found dead at his home in Tokyo, police said. Mr. Nakagawa, 56 years old, was
News Source: Japan Times
| about 1 month ago
Former Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, whose political career went downhill after he appeared to be drunk at a news conference in Rome in February, was found dead Sunday morning at his home in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, police said. Nakagawa, 56,
News Source: CNN
| about 1 month ago
Former Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, who resigned from his post after appearing intoxicated at a news conference earlier this year, was found dead in his home Sunday, police told CNN. Tokyo police found Nakagawa, 56, lying face down on
News Source: Kyodo News
| about 1 month ago
House of Representatives election, in which the Democratic Party of Japan clinched a landslide victory over the LDP to oust it from power. Nakagawa, who won his first lower house seat in 1983, stepped down as finance minister and financial
News Source: Japan Times
| 2 months ago
After generations of rule, the Liberal Democratic Party was trounced by the Democratic Party of Japan in last month's Lower House elections. Jeff Kingston weighs what went wrong, what went right — and what now for a nation whose voters are sick of '
News Source: Japan Today
| 2 months ago
Some members of the Democratic Party of Japan will likely find no room in public housing for Diet members as a result of the party’s sweeping victory in the Aug 30 House of Representatives election, party officials said Monday. Only the 300-room
News Source: Japan Today
| 3 months ago
With Sunday’s House of Representatives election taking an enormous toll on the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party, many of its heavyweights fell at the hands of challengers from the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan. Although most of them