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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...
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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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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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Japan's new government has improved the way it communicates with the public and is standing up to the once almighty bureaucracy, according to a former media chief for British Prime Minister Tony Blair who advised the Democratic Party of Japan on strategy...
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Japan is also a maritime state situated in the Asia-Pacific region. The rich Japanese culture has since ancient times been nurtured through exchanges and trade with foreign countries. The seas surrounding Japan must never again be made into seas of conflict.
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The ruling Democratic Party of Japan beat the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party in House of Councillors by-elections in Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures on Sunday, giving a boost to Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s new government as it pushes ahead...
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Liberal Democratic Party President Sadakazu Tanigaki on Wednesday criticized Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s government for appearing to pursue socialist policies, pledging to confront it in the upcoming Diet session if that is indeed the case. The main...
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Campaigning kicked off Thursday for two House of Councillors by-elections to be held Oct 25, the first parliamentary elections since the Aug 30 general election, which ushered in the new government led by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. Hatoyama’s Democratic...
Tags: Liberal Democratic Party, Yukio Hatoyama, DPJ, Democratic Party of Japan, campaigning kicks, minister yukio, prime minister
The government has formally decided to ditch a plan by the previous government to build a state-run facility dubbed ‘‘animation pantheon,’’ education minister Tatsuo Kawabata said Thursday. ‘‘We’ve decided not to build an animation facility (after reviewing...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, Liberal Democratic Party, Ichiro Ozawa, DPJ
Newly elected Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Yoshihiko Watanabe said Saturday he is undergoing bankruptcy proceedings and has ¥140 million in debt. Watanabe, 53, said he did not report his financial troubles to DPJ headquarters before running in the...
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