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Baseball fans will get to see an annual amateur draft live in a conference hall from this year. Nippon Professional Baseball said Thursday it will invite 1,000 fans to this year’s draft on Oct 29. Baseball sources predict that as many as 11 clubs might...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, Tokyo, U.S, jobs data, tokyo stock, Daiwa Securities Group, SMFG, Nikkei Stock Average, DPJ, Daiwa Securities SMBC
Japan's prime minister in waiting, Yukio Hatoyama, and new U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos agreed Thursday to enhance the two countries' relations amid emerging concerns in Washington over a possible change in the nature of the alliance under a new...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, Japan Business Federation, Search Japan, Bank of Japan, Liberal Democratic Party, DPJ, Tokyo, Yukio Hatoyama, LDP, prime minister
The Liberal Democratic Party's crushing election defeat brings to an end its cozy relationship with the bureaucracy, which the victorious Democratic Party of Japan has promised to weaken. Thousands of ministry officials now must come to terms with the...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, prime minister, DPJ, WTO
The win by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) ends a half-century of almost unbroken rule by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and breaks a deadlock in parliament, ushering in a government that has promised to focus spending on consumers, cut wasteful...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, Japan Meteorological Agency, democratic parties, LDP, prime minister, DPJ, Taro Aso, minister taro, Liberal Democratic Party, Yukio Hatoyama
Smith says a big victory by the DPJ in the 480-seat lower house of parliament means that the party could have a relatively free hand in implementing its policy goals. "Three hundred-plus seats means we'll have a DPJ government for at least the next three...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, U.S, DPJ
Unemployment in Japan hit 5.7% in July, the highest on record since World War II. Joblessness in the world's second-largest economy has been steadily rising from 4.8% in March to 5.4% in June. The record July number exceeded analyst predictions of 5.5%,...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, DPJ, Liberal Democratic party, jobless rate, rate hit, landslide victory
The 2005 Lower House election was a bitter experience for candidates on the Democratic Party of Japan's ticket who ran in Tokyo's 25 single-seat constituencies. Then-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi pitched his postal privatization initiative and the...
Tags: Liberal Democratic Party, Democratic Party of Japan, LDP, Tokyo, DPJ
Japanese Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano, his ruling bloc facing likely defeat in an election less than a week away, sought to lure back voters with a warning on Tuesday that a big opposition win risked creating one-party "despotism". In the latest survey...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, DPJ, opposition democratic, Kaoru Yosano, Finance Ministry, Liberal Democratic Party, finance minister, minister kaoru, Yukio Hatoyama, main opposition
While campaigning for this Sunday's election has largely focused on economic and social security issues, people in the content industry are casting a cold eye on the contest following a recent confrontation in the Diet. The industry, which includes entertainment...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, U.S.-Japan, Japanese, Japan Business Federation, Liberal Democratic Party, DPJ, Kaoru Yosano, opposition democratic, Tokyo, Nepal
Campaigning began Tuesday for one of the most hotly contested elections Japan has seen in more than a decade, with attention focusing on whether the Liberal Democratic Party, which has enjoyed nearly unbroken rule for the past 5 1/2 decades, will find...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, democratic parties, Liberal Democratic Party, DPJ, house elections, Asahi Shimbun, 2005 Lower House, LDP, main opposition, Bloomberg