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LDP calls Hatoyama to account
Hatoyama :: Japan | 1 day ago
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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
Democracy, not elite power games, should drive Kenya’s Draft debate
Tōkyō :: Japan | 2 days ago
Credibility 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
"Nikolić should lead united opposition"
Belgrade :: Serbia | 3 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: New Serbia, Serbia, Belgrade, Politics, Slobodan Miloￅﾡeviￄﾇ, Elections in Serbia, Politics of Vojvodina, Liberal Democratic Party, Serbian Radical Party, ￄﾌedomir Jovanoviￄﾇ, Constitution of Serbia, Nikoli, Democratic Party of Serbia, Vojvodina, Politics of Serbia
Documentary puts in perspective Hirohito and a turbulent century
Hiroshima :: Japan | 5 days ago
Credibility 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
Whither the LDP withers
Aso :: Japan | 6 days ago
Credibility 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
Kacin: Candidacy unrealistic
Belgrade :: Serbia | 7 days ago
Credibility European Parliament Rapporteur for Serbia Jelko Kacin said that it is unrealistic for Serbia to apply for EU candidacy by the end of 2009. �Candidacy is an important issue, that is why we must be realistic. It cannot be a game of poker, put a game with...
Tags: Serbia, Belgrade, Jelko Kacin, Blic, European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party, Accession of Serbia to the European Union, Civic Alliance of Serbia, Liberal parties, Liberal Democratic Party, Politics, Social Issues
Politics › Cabinet Secretariat received Y1.2 bil annually in secret funds
Tōkyō :: Japan | 8 days ago
Credibility 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,...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, democratic parties, Liberal Democratic Party, Hirofumi Hirano, secretariat received, secret fund, cabinet secretariat, Japan, Tōkyō, Health in the United States, Influenza pandemic, Flu season, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Influenza, Pandemics, Komeito, House of Representatives of Japan, Diet of Japan, Senegalese Democratic Party, Soka Gakkai, Liberal parties, New Komeito Party, Politics, Japanese yen, Business Finance, Chief Cabinet Secretary, Government of Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, Japanese general election, Elections in Japan, Politics of Japan, Prime Ministers of Japan
Japan slides into deflation
Tōkyō :: Japan | 9 days ago
Credibility Today’s report suggests that the Japanese government is preparing itself for the horrors of a “double-dip” recession – a calamity which most economists currently believe can be avoided, but only if China and Asia retain their recovery momentum. The government’s...
Tags: Bank of Japan, Democratic Party of Japan, National › Japan, central bank, Japan, Tōkyō, Inflation, Deflation, Deflator, Business Finance, Bernanke Doctrine, Politics, Monetary policy, Macroeconomics, Masaaki Shirakawa, Yukio Hatoyama, Shirakawa, Economy of Japan, Recessions, Quantitative easing, Nikkei 225, Mizuho Securities, Topix, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Technology Internet, Japanese yen, Development aid, Development, Official Development Assistance, Aid, Japanese general election, New Komeito Party, Liberal Democratic Party, Elections in Japan, Liberal parties, Soka Gakkai
Kenya bid to cut president powers
Nairobi :: Kenya | 11 days ago
Credibility The plans would put the prime minister in charge of day-to-day government business, while the president would be nominal head of the government. Prime Minister Raila Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki have a history of bitter rivalry...Kenyans could vote...
Tags: Kenya, Mr Odinga, draft constitution, Mr Kibaki, Nairobi, Odinga, Kenyan crisis, Liberal Democratic Party, Politics of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki, Raila Odinga, Politics
COMMENT China: A need for strategic reassurance
Monterey :: CA :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility United States President Barack Obama's eight-day trip to four Asian countries, starting in Japan on Friday, comes at a time of significant changes and growing anxiety about what appears to be an increasingly marginalized US role in the region. America's...
Tags: Monterey, Liberal Democratic Party, Japan, Hatoyama Hall, Haruko Hatoyama, Prime Ministers of Japan, Democratic Party of Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, Politics
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