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The fund management body of political heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa failed to report ¥2.3 million in contributions from fiscal 2004 to 2007, sources said Monday. The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office is reportedly looking into how the entity, called...
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In the work completed, the panel reviewed funding allocations for some 240 projects included in the fiscal 2010 budgetary requests, which top ¥95 trillion in total, and managed to cut expenditure by some ¥450 billion. It also called for funds set up by...
Tags: Japan, Hatoyama, Politics, Business Finance, Prime Ministers of Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, Naoto Kan, Democratic Party of Japan
What was it that enabled the DPJ to win 308 of 480 seats in the Lower House while dropping the number of LDP seats to only 119? Even as the votes were being counted, Katsuya Okada, then DPJ secretary general and now foreign minister, said, "I believe...
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A former vice foreign minister recently said he has seen documents from 1960 that confirm a secret Japan-U.S. pact under which Tokyo allows U.S. military ships and aircraft carrying nuclear weapons to transit Japan. "I saw them. I have memories that...
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On Nov. 10, Ichiro Ozawa, secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, dropped a bombshell in a speech he made atop one of Japan's most sacred mountains, Mount Koya, in Wakayama Prefecture. The temple on that mount was founded in the ninth...
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Rafferty has ticked all the relevant boxes bringing to light most, if not all, of the salient and negative aspects of the European Union. The EU is a laudable conception, but the requisite mental machinery is not yet in place for its effective operation.
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Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Saturday he is not yet at a stage in which to draw to a conclusion by the end of the year on the issue of relocating a U.S. military airfield in Okinawa Prefecture. ‘‘I’m not yet at that stage,’’ Hatoyama told reporters...
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The Democratic Party of Japan's oldest lawmaker recently had a few bitter words for his old friend, DPJ Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa. Speaking in Fukuoka earlier this month, Kozo Watabe criticized what he considered the monopolization of party authority...
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In a visit to Japan in the early 1990s, U.S...When President Barack Obama visited Japan last weekend, he offered an effusive bow to the Emperor Akihito . Politically, U.S.-Japanese relations have improved dramatically during that two-decade stretch.
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The Cabinet Secretariat received around 1.2 billion yen in so-called secret funds each year from fiscal 2004 through fiscal 2008—roughly 100 million yen each month from April 2004 through last month, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano disclosed Friday,...
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