In reference to constitutional revision, a certain former prime minister once said to the effect, “The German Weimar Constitution became the Nazi Germany Constitution without anyone noticing the ...
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who had been pushing for a bill to reduce the number of Diet members (House of ...
Fumio Kishida’s fairly smooth path to victory in the Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election was paved largely ...
Toshio Akagi told his wife that he had compiled a dossier detailing the pressure he had faced to alter documents at the center of a political scandal. This week, she won her fight to see them. By Ben ...
Asia Is Racing to the Arctic, But It’s Not Easy Taro Aso has done it again. This time, the terminally gaffe-prone deputy prime minister has invoked the ire of a New York City-based Jewish human rights ...
The lower house of Japanese parliament, the Diet, endorsed Taro Aso as Japan’s new prime minister on Wednesday, after he won the post of president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on ...
Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Tuesday that Japan could act against the yen's rise as needed, based on a G20 agreement backing currency stability, if "one-sided" and "speculative" moves were ...