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Crime › Hatoyama's brother received money from mother in fund report scandal
Tōkyō :: Japan | 3 days ago
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The political funds scandal involving the family of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has apparently spread to his brother as Kunio Hatoyama, a former internal affairs and communications minister, has been found to have received a large sum of money from...
Tags: Yukio Hatoyama, Kunio Hatoyama, Japanese Trade Union Confederation, minister yukio, prime minister, environment minister, environment tax, Japan, Tōkyō, Environment, Prime Ministers of Japan, Climate change, Business Finance, Politics, Carbon finance, Hatoyama Hall, Naoto Kan, Climate change denial, Energy economics, Gasoline, Fuel tax, United Nations Climate Change Conference, Internal Revenue Service, Kyoto Protocol, Taxation, Democratic Party of Japan, Petroleum products, Fossil fuel, Taro Aso, Finance, Opinion poll
Hatoyama: The Teflon PM
Tōkyō :: Japan | 9 days ago
Credibility November 26, 2009 Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, it seems, can do no wrong. For weeks, he has been waffling over the issue of where to relocate the US Futenma air base, insisting he needs time to ponder the deal the previous Liberal Democratic...
Tags: U.S. Marine, Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, Tōkyō, Prime Ministers of Japan, Okinawa Prefecture, Politics, Chief Cabinet Secretary, Okinawa Island, Shinzￅﾍ Abe, Mizuho Fukushima, Yokota, War Conflict, Surnames, Democratic Party of Japan, Taro Aso, Law Crime, Yomiuri Shimbun, Prefectures of Japan, Kyodo News, Ichirￅﾍ Ozawa, Transport in Tokyo, Nago Okinawa, Business Finance, Law enforcement in Japan, Kunio Hatoyama, Ryukyu Islands, Shojiro Ishibashi, Haruko Hatoyama, Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Hatoyama Hall
Whither the LDP withers
Aso :: Japan | 12 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
Japan opposition crushes LDP in historic election
Tōkyō :: Japan | 3 months ago
Credibility 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
Japan election set to break political mould
Tōkyō :: Japan | 3 months ago
Credibility Japan's political leaders made their final pitches for votes ahead of landmark polls Sunday that could end half a century of almost unbroken conservative rule and bring to power a centre-left party. Polls predict the opposition Democratic Party of Japan...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, prime minister, The Liberal Democratic Party, minister taro, Miyuki Hatoyama, Mrs Hatoyama, rule party, Taro Aso, Yukio Hatoyama
Politics › Aso says Yasukuni should not become election issue
Tōkyō :: Japan | 3 months ago
Credibility Prime Minister Taro Aso on Friday said the war-related Yasukuni Shrine should not become an issue in the Aug 30 general election though the main opposition leader has suggested that a new memorial institution could be built if his party takes power. ‘‘We...
Tags: Tokyo, Japan, deep regret, Yasukuni Shrine, Taro Aso, Miyazaki Gov Hideo Higashikokubaru
Japan commemorates anniversary of Hiroshima bomb attack
Hiroshima :: Japan | 4 months ago
Credibility The vow by Prime Minister Taro Aso to maintain the ban on the possession, production or import of nuclear arms comes after North Korea raised regional tensions with a nuclear test earlier this year. "I promise again that Japan will continue to adhere...
Tags: Hiroshima Japan, atomic bombs, U.S, prime minister, minister taro, United States, 64th anniversary, Taro Aso, nuclear weapon, bombs survivor
Japan PM accuses NKorea as election campaign launched
Niigata :: Japan | 4 months ago
Credibility Prime Minister Taro Aso kicked off a campaigning tour ahead of this month's general election on Saturday by focusing on the issue of kidnappings of Japanese citizens by North Korean agents during the Cold War. Aso went to a coastal area in Niigata, north...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, Niigata Prefecture, Megumi Yokota, minister taro, Niigata City, Taro Aso, prime minister
Japan at "historic turning point"
Tōkyō :: Japan | 4 months ago
Credibility Japan's opposition leader Yukio Hatoyama, widely tipped to become the next prime minister, said on Monday the country was "at a historic turning point" as it nears elections next month. Hatoyama pledged government reform, foreign policy shifts, higher...
Tags: Democratic Party of Japan, DPJ, democratic parties, prime minister, minister taro, Taro Aso, lower house, opposition parties, main opposition
Japan PM cancels visit to disaster-hit region
Tōkyō :: Japan | 4 months ago
Credibility It is feared more disasters could occur," Aso told reporters before he was to take off at Tokyo's Haneda airport. (AFP)
Tags: Junior Chamber International Japan, minister taro, Taro Aso, prime minister, Yokohama
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