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Japan passed a law on Friday to stop the privatization of the nation’s huge postal service, a symbolic move to roll back the small-government policies of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi earlier this decade. The law halts the planned sale of shares...
Tags: Japan Post Holdings Co., Yukio Hatoyama, Democratic Party of Japan, democratic parties, plan sales, Liberal Democratic Party, prime minister, diet session, DPJ, LDP, Japan, Tōkyō, Politics, Prime Ministers of Japan, Junichiro Koizumi, Japan Post, Ichirᅤヘ Ozawa, Business Finance, Privatization, Elections in Japan, Shizuka Kamei, Naoto Kan, Japanese general election, Social Democratic Party, National fiscal policy response to the late 2000s recession, Sadakazu Tanigaki, Financial services, Diet of Japan
Even though the coalition government of ODM and PNU should work together, there seems to be some suspicion between the partners. The making of new constitution has always been crippled by self and party interests. The problem with most of our politicians...
Tags: ODM, Kenya, Nairobi, Politics, Liberal Democratic Party, Results of the Kenyan parliamentary election, Politics of Kenya
Prosecutors are leaning toward not questioning Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama over alleged irregularities in his political funds reports, sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday. The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office instead intends to ask...
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A comprehensive bill to support people with hepatitis B and C, along with an attached statement recognizing the government's liability in spreading infections via tainted blood products, cleared the Diet on Monday. The Upper House passed the lawmaker-sponsored...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, Liberal Democratic Party, Japan, Hatoyama, Health Medical Pharma, Hepatitis, Viral hepatitis, Politics, Viruses, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B in China, Hepatitis C, Gastroenterology
The House of Representatives endorsed a plan Monday to extend the ongoing extraordinary Diet session ending Monday by four days through Friday to ensure the passages of all the government-proposed bills. During the extended session, the Democratic Party...
Tags: Japan Post Holdings Co, Yukio Hatoyama, Okinawa Gov Hirokazu Nakaima, Yasuko Hatoyama, prime minister, Japan, Tōkyō, Politics, Prime Ministers of Japan, Democratic Party of Japan, Environment, Japanese general election, Okinawa Prefecture, Yukio, Barack Obama, Liberal Democratic Party, Ichirᅤヘ Hatoyama, Elections in Japan, Sengoku, Ryukyu Islands, Japan Post, Haruko Hatoyama, Hirokazu Nakaima, Hatoyama Hall
Revelations that Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama received ¥900 million from his mother — allegedly as a loan — has put the Democratic Party of Japan on the defensive, as opposition parties, the ex-long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party in particular, seek...
Tags: Toshihiro Nikai, Yukio Hatoyama, democratic parties, Japan, Hatoyama, Ichirᅤヘ Ozawa, Democratic Party of Japan, Politics, Liberal Democratic Party, Prime Ministers of Japan, Shojiro Ishibashi, Koichi Kato, Law Crime, Liberal parties
Renowned political scientist Larry Diamond, in Foreign Affairs magazine (April 2008), clustered Kenya together with an emerging axis of democracies at risk. As a way out, he suggests that “struggling democracies must be consolidated so that all levels...
Tags: prime minister, Jomo Kenyatta, Mwai Kibaki, Japan, Tōkyō, Vice-Presidents of Kenya, Kenya, Politics, Liberal Democratic Party, Raila Odinga, Politics of Kenya, National Rainbow Coalition
Opposition New Serbia (NS) leader Velimir Ili� said that Serb Progressive Party (SNS) President Tomislav Nikoli� should lead the opposition. Ili� said that Nikoli� at the helm of a united opposition would be a good plan for trying to defeat the government...
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A documentary on the history of Japan during the war and postwar years is receiving critical acclaim following its broadcast by Franco-German television station Arte in late September. "The Emperor and the Army" was produced by Kenichi Watanabe, 58,...
Tags: Japanese, Kenichi Watanabe, Liberal Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party, prime minister, television stations, U.S, Japan, Hiroshima, Shinzᅤヘ Abe, Hirohito, Yasukuni Shrine, Politics
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...
Tags: LDP, Sadakazu Tanigaki, DPJ, Zenko Suzuki, prime minister, Japan, Aso, Politics of Japan, Liberal Democratic Party, Democratic Party of Japan, Taro Aso, Liberal parties, Prime Ministers of Japan, Elections in Japan, Politics