SPECIAL ADVISOR TALKS MILITARY ABENOMICS, CLAIMS MISQUOTE
Special advisor to the Prime Minister Etsuro Honda underscored the military importance of Japan's economic resurgence in...
read moreTokyo Gov. Urges Infrastructure Upgrades, Renewables Ahead of Games
Yoichi Masuzoe, the newly-elected governor of Tokyo, aims to significantly update the city’s infrastructure in preparati...
read moreJapan, US to Negotiate TPP this Weekend
Trade chiefs from the United States and Japan will meet this weekend in hopes of bridging the countries’ differences ahe...
read moreAbe can’t deny Japan’s WWII apology: Murayama
A former Japanese prime minister says Japan sticks by its 1995 apology for its World War Two aggression against Asian co...
read moreTokyo’s new governor takes office
Tokyo’s newly elected governor made his first appearance at the metropolitan office on Wednesday.Yoichi Masuzoe won Sund...
read moreKoizumi still committed to zero nuclear policy
Flamboyant former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi says he’ll carry on with his campaign for a zero-nuclear Japan despit...
read moreTokyo election eases way for nuclear restarts
The election of a ruling party candidate to the post of Tokyo governor last weekend is easing the way for Japan to resta...
read moreChina, S.Korea bash Japan at UN
Japan received some harsh criticism at the UN yesterday (Wednesday).The Chinese and South Korean UN ambassadors denounce...
read moreNHK board raps chair over comfort women comment
The new chairman of Japan’s national broadcaster has been warned after making controversial comments about women forced ...
read moreNew teaching manuals to state territorial claims
Japan’s government has decided that from now on schools should explicitly teach the country’s territorial claims. Japan ...
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